About the Host

Ejeris Dixon

Ejeris is a political strategist passionate about strengthening liberation movements and building community safety. Ejeris serves as the Fascism Barometer's "movement meteorologist," exploring the impact of fascist movements on communities of color, queer and trans communities, and all marginalized people. Having worked for the past twenty-five years at the intersections of racial justice, LGBTQ liberation, anti-violence, transformative justice, and economic justice movements, Ejeris focuses on creating political and strategic experiments to strengthen social justice movements through the organization Ejerie Labs. Over time, Ejeris has directly worked on thousands of incidents of violence and organized support for victims, survivors, and families of more than a hundred homophobic, transphobic, and racist murders. Ejeris is a co-editor of Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies of the Transformative Justice Movement, which became a finalist for the Lambda Literary award in LGBTQ Anthology. Ejeris's writing, analysis, and organizing has been featured in Truthout Magazine, Rolling Stone, Huffington Post, SPIN Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, NBC, CNN, Ms. Magazine, and The Nation.