Salam Alaykum!
I’m Sol—a Black, Queer, Muslim writer, lawyer, and care worker based in the Black South. My work spans storytelling for narrative change, community reproductive support, and abolitionist legal advocacy to disrupt oppression and build freer futures.
More About Sol Elias
Sol Elias (he/they) is a Black Trans Muslim facilitator, movement strategist, and writer working at the intersections of reproductive justice, abolition, and disability justice. Rooted in the Black South, Sol’s praxis weaves legal advocacy, trauma-informed care, and grassroots organizing to dismantle oppressive systems and nurture community autonomy.
As a writer, Sol’s essays, poetry, and investigative pieces — published in Scalawag, Prism, Truthout, and more — confront anti-Blackness, cis-hetero-patriarchy, and displacement, drawing from their lineage as a descendant of occupied Boriken and New Afrika.
Sol is also the co-steward of the Transfuturist Collective, an emerging network of queer and trans reproductive care workers, and formerly a Community Doula with the Ad’iyah Collective, an international formation offering support to Muslims navigating pregnancy, abortion, and miscarriage.
As a Reproductive Justice Practitioner:
Sol’s work is rooted in the radical Black Feminist tradition, guided by the legacies of June Jordan, Assata Shakur, Claudia Jones, and Audre Lorde.
Their practice rejects compromise with systems of oppression, centering global struggles for self-determination—including Palestinian liberation and Puerto Rican sovereignty—as non-negotiable to reproductive justice.
Their work includes:
Full-spectrum doula support (trained by Holistic Abortions, Ash Williams of ADT, and Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings), offering logistical, emotional, and legal accompaniment for self-managed abortions, herbal abortions, and miscarriage care—always grounded in the truth that your body is yours.
Conflict mediation in Black, Queer, Trans, and Muslim communities, navigating tensions between religious/cultural values and bodily autonomy to create spaces where no one is made unsafe by homophobia, transphobia, or misogyny.
Popular education, training peer abortion companions and democratizing reproductive health access, because liberation demands free, comprehensive care—from sexual education to housing to abortion access.
As a Legal Worker and Policy Advocate
With a Juris Doctorate (CUNY Law School) and BA in Public Policy & Journalism (Hofstra University), Sol designs legal and policy strategies that confront state violence while centering the autonomy of marginalized communities.
Their work includes:
Reparations & Family Policing Abolition:
Developing frameworks to dismantle family policing systems, supporting families navigating CPS interventions with trauma-informed policy and legal advocacy
Advancing reparations for survivors of family policing through participatory research and coalition-building
Democratizing Legal Knowledge and Building Power:
Prison Industrial Complex Resistance: Supporting people who are formerly incarcerated and at risk of incarceration in accessing reproductive healthcare, and gender-affirming resources.
Community-Centered Legal Tools: Facilitating wills/estate planning for poor and working class, LGBTQ+ and communities of color to combat dispossession and ensure intergenerational sovereignty.
Movement Lawyering: Training organizers and law students to align legal strategies with grassroots power
Sol’s advocacy rejects reformist compromises, insisting that policy must serve collective liberation—not systems of control.
Vision and Partnerships
Sol’s work is anchored in the unshakable belief that Black queer and trans people deserve justice, joy, and peace—never injustice.
They collaborate only with those committed to leveraging their power and resources to:
Dismantle white supremacy in all forms—from policy violence to cultural erasure.
Eradicate patriarchal violence, from interpersonal harm to state-sponsored repression.
Build decolonial futures where freedom requires the destruction of settler-colonial legacies and the right to self-define, self-express, and re-express.
In the world Sol fights for:
All bodies are free. Reproductive autonomy is collective work, ensuring every person has the resources to control their body and destiny.
Black liberation is non-negotiable, and global struggles for self-determination (e.g., Palestinian liberation, Puerto Rican sovereignty) are inextricably linked.
Past and Current Projects:
Fannie Lou Hamer Vision Fellow: Updating the Vision for Black Lives policy platform through abolitionist, Black queer feminist, and internationalist lenses.
Reproductive Justice Fellow (HEART Women & Girls): Creating community projects to increase Muslim communities’ access to bodily autonomy.
Principal Facilitator (Activista Consulting): Supporting movements in conflict navigation, cooperative development, and campaign strategy.
Lead Organizer (Fill the Gap — 2020-2023): Led NYC-based efforts to redistribute cash, menstrual products, emergency contraception, PPE, and infant care supplies.