About Our Chapter

In the heart of Brooklyn lies Little Bangladesh, Kensington. For many of our members, the streets of Kensington feel like a memory brought to life,  familiar, and full of possibility. We are delivery workers, restaurant workers, home health aids, cafeteria workers, full-time caregivers of our families and climate displaced people who have had to migrate from our homelands out of necessity.

Our lead staff organizer recalls her early days walking into the base, past the masjid, past restaurants and clothing stores, hearing her language spoken on every block. It felt like home. In the beginning, it was the familiarity that made it like home she says. “But over time, it became something deeper. Now it’s the love. The love to support, to uplift, to organize. And also the discomfort, the discomfort that comes when we care enough to have the hard conversations, and still show up for each other.”

Kensington was once a neighborhood where many women feared walking alone, where public space was shaped by a heavy male presence that made it difficult for everyone to move freely. But that reality has shifted. Through the committed work of our organizers, members and the community, the culture of these streets began to change.

Now, women and men are seen tabling together in the heart of the neighborhood, at the little plaza off Church Avenue. They come together to challenge the systems that harm them and also to transform the spaces they move through every day.