Algarabía Language Co-op is a BIPOC, immigrant, queer, and women-led, worker-owned cooperative with members in New Jersey, New York, and Puerto Rico. Our Language for Social Justice Program was established in the spring of 2016 in New York City as a grassroots alternative to formal language instruction, serving queer BIPOC, Spanish and Arabic bilinguals (“heritage speakers”), community organizers, political activists, and community-based organizations. We offer multiple levels of both virtual and in-person Spanish and Arabic classes and language services such as interpretation, translation, and Language Justice trainings, all with a strong focus on promoting social justice.
We are deeply committed to anti-capitalist, popular education. All our classes are available on a sliding scale, and we offer additional flexible payment plans. Our Spanish language curriculum is centered around the lived experiences of working-class people of Indigenous and African descent on our continent. Our Arabic language curriculum offers an anti-colonial and anti-imperialist alternative to institutional language learning.