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First US fund in the country dedicated to Black trans joy and liberation. ✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️
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We wish you all a joyful #Juneteenth! ✊🏿❤️🖤💚 As we celebrate and honor the holiday, a reminder that a future rooted in Black liberation does not and cannot exist without Black trans liberation and joy. ✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ Last year, we asked our team to imagine #BlackTransJoy looked like to them — we invite you to share what it looks like to you in one word (or more!) in the comments! by @blacktransfund

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The Black Trans Fund turns 4 this year! 🎉🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿

As we celebrate our anniversary of building relationships and moving money to the field for Black trans joy and liberation in the midst of #BlackHistoryMonth other celebrations, we also realize many of you are holding a lot this season. We want to remind you to simply dream. We invite you to step into a place, a thought or a moment where you can imagine what it means to foster joy.

To put you into the spirit of dreaming and inspiration, we’ve gathered a few love notes from our team, which you can read by clicking the link in our bio. #BlackTransJoy by @blacktransfund

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“There is not a night dark enough to deter me from my freedom and future that centers Black trans joy. It is my already claimed birthright.”

In a beautiful letter by our Director Bré Rivera (@amirah_bre), we outline our highlights of 2023, which included awarding more than $2 million to the field to cultivate and sustain Black trans joy, growing our team, launching our Arts and Culture program and expanding our advisor committee to guide our guiding our Arts and Culture and Disability Justice funding. 2023 was also a year of rough transitions, including challenges with our community care grants process and limited capacity.

As we enter the fifth year of our five-year plan, BTF continues to undergo transitions with a commitment to live into our values of being a political home for Black trans joy in 2024. In light of this, we will be pausing new applications for funding this year. Please click the link in our bio to read the full letter.

Photo: @kingtexas #BlackTransJoy #TransTruthTellingTuesday by @blacktransfund

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For #TransDayofRemembrance, we share and important message from @iammissmouthy — now more than ever, we need to be united, vigilant and continue to thrive, exist and resist. Miss Mouthy touches on the ramifications of the recent US elections and more in her latest episode “Divided We Fall”. Watch the full episode by clicking the link in our bio. #TransAwarenessWeek by @blacktransfund

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Sharing this on behalf of our partners @tko_alabama! 💜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

In celebration of their 12th birthday, TKO is launching their “Take Care With TKO” campaign, aimed at raising $50,000. This initiative focuses on expanding their essential services for Black TLGBQ+ communities in Alabama, including healthcare access, housing, healthy food, mental health support, and educational programs.

By supporting this campaign, donors can directly contribute to their mission of fostering love, liberation, and a future where all TLGBQ+ individuals live full and healthy lives.

Donations can be made by clicking their bio or at https://donorbox.org/empower-and-support-help-fund-tko-society-s-lgbtq-direct-services. by @blacktransfund

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Happy Thursday! 💜 In the latest episode from the @iammissmouthy podcast, we get to know her on another level — through her romantic partner and @itsoktobeyouuu Program Director Graison G. (@graison_g, he/him), as they both talk about all things love, dating and more. Watch the full episode by visiting her page! by @blacktransfund

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Is “Philanthropy High” all it’s cracked up to be? Our Program Associate Rainier Miles (@lovesparxx) tackles dismantling clique culture in philanthropy and actionable ways funders can show up for their grantees:

“Grantees that have spoken to [Black Trans Fund] about their experiences with other funders often state that they leave those conversations feeling defeated, or unheard. The processes are impersonal, robotic, and lacking in connection ... If you are reading this and you feel uncomfortable or that this could be referencing you/your org, maybe it’s time to rethink grantee interactions.”

Read the full piece on our Medium page by clicking the link in our bio! A purple notebook with the text “You Can Sit Here” in multicolored cutout letter is placed on top of a collage of a a photo of a school hallway with blue lockers, a red locker with a combination lock, photo of flared pants, random cutout text and white strips on an orange background. by @blacktransfund

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🚨 REMINDER: Complete the Black Trans Reproductive Justice Survey — it’s open until the end of this month!

The Black Trans Reproductive Justice Survey seeks the insight and experiences of Black Trans-identified folks within the frame of reproductive justice. This survey is an opportunity for Black trans-identified folks (within and outside of the binary) to inform and assess the politics of an intersectional Reproductive Justice movement that also centers on Black trans communities.

We are looking for participants with varied experiences nationally so that we can map out what access, understanding, and needs look like for Black trans communities across the country. Follow this link (also in our bio), submit a survey, and pass the survey along.

If you have any further questions or would like to connect to expand outreach, please email: BTRJSurvey@gmail.com. by @blacktransfund

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This month we shine our spotlight on our reproductive justice organizers and partners Ash Williams (@ashwilliamsclt, he/him) and Cazembe Jackson (@unclecaz, he/him) and the Black Trans RJ Survey (see second slide).

🚨 Body autonomy has been under attack and the fall of Roe v. Wade alerted reproductive health advocates to organize in ways that often only managed to address abortion access. But what does reproductive justice look like for Black trans people? Principled in Black liberation, our partnership with these folks seeks to expand the discourse and focus on the voices of Black trans people who have long been a part of this movement. Their Black Trans RJ Survey picks up at the intersections of racial justice, trans justice, housing justice, prison abolition, and abortion access to scope out what Black trans and gender-expansive folks identify as protection and care for their right to thrive.

🙏🏿 Honoring their long work and commitment to the intersections of Black Liberation, trans and gender-expansive liberation, abolition and reproductive justice, we’re extending loads of gratitude for the work Ash, Cazembe and others have and still do in training our communities, organizing nationally, and locally in the south. They’ve also gifted us with their intimate stories and testified on behalf of many Black, trans, and queer folks emboldening the intersections of our movements.

✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️ Black trans folks are starting and rearing families, are doulas, midwives, and patient navigators supporting gender journeys. Black trans men can be Dads and need perinatal care and postpartum support. Black trans kids deserve to grow up. Black trans women can be Moms and also need protection and community to take care of their kids. Black trans folks are incarcerated and deserve to be released and supported with access to safe and sustainable communities. Black trans politics in reproductive justice is beyond a “birthing person” and we all need to know and show up better for Black trans communities within and outside of the binary.

Learn more by clicking the survey link in our bio! by @blacktransfund

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How can we find peace and joy from setting boundaries? Our partner and media personality @iammissmouthy discusses this from a personal lens in her latest episode “Believing in Boundaries.” Watch the full episode by clicking on our Youtube via the link in our bio! by @blacktransfund

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Happy #ThrowbackThursday! We’re sharing a #TB with our partner @iammissmouthy from the @blacktransadvocacy 2024 conference, featuring community and clergymember Achim Howard (@achimhoward, he/him) who shares a bit about what gives him joy.

Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel by clicking the link in our bio! by @blacktransfund

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Happy Friday! 💜 We’re ending this week with the latest episode from our partner @iammissmouthy titled “Look at My Lotus” who discusses what is currently blooming for her, along with updates from this summer and what’s to come.

Watch the whole episode by clicking the link in our bio! by @blacktransfund

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