our first commitment

Community safety & consent

How we create safer spaces and champion accountability

Our values in action

how we create safer spaces

At The Autonomy Project, our first commitment is to our community's safety—especially for those most often overlooked or harmed. We are unapologetically committed to creating spaces where safety, consent, and accountability are non-negotiable. We know that safe, affirming spaces aren’t created by accident. They are built with intention, upheld by structure, and nurtured through relationships rooted in mutual respect. When those foundations are missing, harm follows—especially for those who already face marginalization. That’s why we design for safety, not just hope for it.

As a survivor-centered organization, we know firsthand that safety isn’t just about physical space. It’s about culture. It’s about accountability. And it’s about trust — trust that is earned and sustained through transparency, action, and on-going work.


Our mission is to offer unwavering support to marginalized individuals and communities, ensuring they have a place where they can truly belong. We stand firmly by our values of consent, kindness, respect, and equality, and will never knowingly align ourselves with groups or causes that contradict these principles.


 We know that marginalized communities are often the most impacted when leadership fails to act with integrity, transparency, and care. That’s why we hold ourselves, our leaders, and our spaces to a higher standard.


We are unapologetically committed to creating spaces where safety, consent, and accountability are non-negotiable.


Survivors deserve to be heard, supported, and protected—not questioned, sidelined, or silenced. We are not just allies to survivors—we are survivors. We didn’t just imagine a safer space, we built it from the ground up, shaped by the hard lessons of what we lived through.


The Autonomy Project is survivor-led—built by people who know firsthand what harm, healing, and resilience truly mean. Our leadership isn’t theoretical—it’s lived. As survivors, we understand what safety really requires, and we’ve built our systems accordingly. We turned our pain into policy, our survival into structure.


We created this space to be what we once needed.

Here's how we put that into practice:

Survivor-Centered Reporting Protocols

We take all reports of harm seriously. We have clear internal reporting processes, and we are continually improving them with community input.

Transparent Leadership

Our leadership structure separates personal power from organizational authority, with checks and balances that prevent anyone from acting without accountability. Our policies are designed to prevent individuals from using their position to avoid consequences or silence dissent.

Community Accountability

 We don’t believe in call-outs without follow-through. We believe in a transformative approach to justice that prioritizes the needs of those harmed while encouraging responsibility and growth.

Careful Vetting Process

We vet leadership, volunteers, members, and collaborators with stringent protocols. We collaborate with other institutions with shared banned lists, and maintain our own with great care.

Consent and Conduct Standards

Every participant, volunteer, and leader is expected to uphold our code of conduct. That includes active, informed consent, boundaries, and a zero-tolerance stance on abuse.

On-going Education

We regularly train our team in trauma-informed care, consent culture, bystander intervention, and anti-oppression frameworks. We continually update our safety and conduct policies with input from our community, centering those most vulnerable to harm.

Consent reporting

f you’ve experienced a consent violation or witnessed harm in our space, we encourage you to report it. We understand that coming forward can be difficult, and we are committed to responding with care, discretion, and respect.


  • You can submit a report anonymously or with your contact information.
  • All reports are reviewed by our leadership team with training in trauma-informed response.
  • We prioritize the safety and agency of those harmed throughout the process.
  • Retaliation of any kind for making a report is strictly prohibited.
  • If you are unsure whether an incident rises to the level of a report, we still encourage you to reach out.


To make a report or speak with a member of our team, you can email us at contact@autonomyproject.org or use the form provided.


We are not interested in performative safety. We are here to do the real work.

Consent Report

We also recognize that harm can happen anywhere, including within our own walls. That’s why we’re committed to being proactive, not reactive, in creating systems of care, response, and accountability. We cannot promise perfection, but we do promise vigilance, humility, and a deep responsibility to those we serve.


At AP, we don’t get everything right. But we do have zero tolerance for abuse, for silence in the face of harm, and for leadership that protects itself at the expense of its people. 


We invite feedback, and we remain open to difficult conversations that lead to growth.