The Response Team is a community-based care collective at Audre Lorde Project. Our work is rooted in mutual aid, peer-to-peer support, and abolitionist values.
ALP’s response team supports QTBIPOC community members with grounded, non-carceral care through listening, resourcing, and collective response. Our work involves building relationships and dreaming up community-based alternatives to police, hospitals, and other institutions that often fail or harm us. Our communities are navigating layered harm shaped by capitalism, racism, transphobia, ableism, and state violence. We see this work as an important part of sustaining the broader struggle for liberation.
This is a space for people who believe that care work is political, that survival is collective, and that we have a shared responsibility to show up for one another outside of punitive and carceral systems.
We’re seeking folks who feel called to this work and who have the capacity to engage in approximately 5–10 hours of peer-to-peer support each month. You don’t need professional credentials to apply. Lived experience, self-awareness, humility, and a willingness to grow are deeply valued.
If you’re someone who wants to help hold community through complexity, and be held in return - we invite you to join us! Once we receive your application, our 3rd Space Coordinator will reach out with next steps and information about upcoming response team orientations. If you have any questions, contact them at indra@alp.org.
The next response team orientation is: March 14, 2026 from 1-5 PM in downtown Brooklyn.