About Distro Sisters
We are the first line of defense against secondary disaster.
Distro Sisters is a new kind of mutual aid project that relies primarily on barter and exchange systems as opposed to the non-profit government structure. We cooperate with food banks, community gardens, textile experts, medical professionals, and other trades masters to deliver necessities and services to our sisters who need them most.
The Distro Sisters project is like a tree, offering shade to any sisters who may sit underneath it. Each branch will be tasked with growing its own leaves specific to its locality, since different demographics of sisters have different needs.
Our Story
Discover the evolution of Distro Sisters through the years as we've grown from a vision into a social program.
All over the world, government-run social systems are failing.
Distro Sisters is a female-only mutual aid program rooted in solidarity, autonomy, and collective survival. We reject the notion that we must depend on patriarchal systems that have historically ignored, exploited, or harmed us. As a proud subsidiary of the International Womyn’s Resource Initiative, we function outside the constraints of bureaucratic "helping" structures and instead commit to mutual aid as a radical, feminist act. We recognize that the needs of female people will never be truly met under a system designed to uphold male supremacy.
Distro Sisters exists to redistribute resources, build networks of care, and reclaim power for us by us.
We do not offer services out of charity—we provide them out of necessity and revolutionary love. Every day, female people are forced to navigate poverty, legal injustice, homelessness, and health crises without reliable support. We intervene in those crises with real material assistance: medical advocates for those gaslit or harmed in healthcare settings, legal support for those criminalized by a system that was never built for us, and eviction prevention for those targeted by exploitative landlords. We reject the narrative that suffering is a personal failure and recognize it as a symptom of living under patriarchal capitalism. Our work centers womyn and girls who are criminalized, erased, and silenced: mothers, lesbians, disabled womyn, working-class womyn, and every sisters at the margins.
Our mission is rooted in the long struggle for female self-determination and liberation from patriarchy. Distro Sisters provides housing aid, outreach to homeless sisters, and transportation support for those who need to flee violence or simply get to work safely. We offer grocery and utility vouchers not as handouts but as a redistribution of resources that have always been hoarded away from us. Our fitness training programs are a space for us to reconnect with their bodies on their own terms—not shaped by male gaze or industry, but by strength, community, and healing. We are building alternative systems of survival and collective care that will outlast the institutions that have failed us.
Our Programs
We provide womyn with access to the following services, with no prerequisites, no judgment, and no strings attached:
Medical Advocacy – Support navigating healthcare systems and appointments
Legal Assistance – Access to legal resources and representation
Eviction Prevention – Crisis intervention and rent support
Rent & Utility Vouchers – Direct aid for housing stability
Gas & Transport Vouchers – Help with mobility for work, health, and safety
Grocery Vouchers – Access to nutritious food without stigma
Housing Assistance – Emergency shelter and transitional housing support
Homeless Outreach – On-the-ground support for unhoused sisters
Employment Assistance – Job placement, resume help, and training resources
Fitness Training – Community-led wellness and strength-building programs
We are not asking for inclusion into a broken system—we are building something entirely new. Distro Sisters is a network of womyn and girls who recognize that our liberation will never be granted—it must be taken. Through direct action, mutual aid, and uncompromising sisterhood, we are creating a premise where womyn no longer have to ask permission to thrive. We move together with urgency, with care, and with the unshakable belief that female people deserve lives of safety, dignity, and power—on our own terms.
2025
Launch & Sustainability Initiatives
The Distro Sisters project has now advanced to the level of creating relationships with the necessary professionals who will help us expand rapidly and serve our communities. Farmers, medical professionals, business owners, students, and tradeswomyn have taken up the mantle to join this initiative to lend a hand to our sisters in need.
2024
Introduction of Distro Sisters
The International Womyn's Resource Initiative needed a specific project that handled social programs, so that it could focus more on legislation, education, separatist practices, a womyn's army, and many other issues. Thus, Distro Sisters was born.
It's purpose would be to serve communities as small as on the local level, while radicalizing the local female population to help improve globally hostile conditions.
2023
Global Expansion & Focus On Radicalism
The BWRI relaunched as the I.W.R.I. at 2023's year end, but with some modifications. The organization would now serve female people all over the world aged 12 and older, this time, attached only to radical Feminist principles, participants, and organizations.
2022
Setting up shop
The Distro Sisters project first began as the "Black Womyn's Resource Initiative", dedicated to creating social programs for Black women in the U.S. and Canada.
Sasha and Janice developed the foundations for this projects, but it was later closed due to harassment from leftist groups for not partnering with incompatible (male run) organizations.
DISTRO SISTERS
Voices of revolt:
1,500+
Sisters served
Womyn must realize that we do not have the functional solidarity of any other special interest group on the planet. We are fractured in a special way, that has contributed to our collective weakness. We will not solve our problems by allying ourselves with male causes.
We must unite with our sisters all over the world to create our own initiatives, and combat our concerns together. Strength isn't just in numbers, it's also in cohesion.
Sasha S. Graham
(@sistaseparatist)
