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Cari-Trans Support Group Jamaica (CTSG)

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An inclusive space for the trans-masculine community.
"You have the right to live in the body that matches your self-image"
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Honoured to be one of the nine organizations implementing Canada Fund for Local Initiatives projects for 2026-2027. 🇨🇦🇯🇲

This week, Cari-Trans Support Group Jamaica attended the CFLI Project Launch, shared its impact statement, and connected with the High Commissioner and the CFLI team. The project will provide trans masculine and gender-diverse Jamaicans with legal documentation support, access to education, employment, skills development, and gender-affirming support, and produce a documentary in community voices.

“Because of this project, next year, our community will be more visible, more protected, and more independent than ever before.”

-Glynn-Devon Bryan

Cari-Trans is deeply grateful for Canada’s partnership in this work @canadajamaica

#CFLI #CanadaJamaica #CariTrans #TransRights by @ctsg_ja

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15 days ago

WE WHO LIVE HERE - Part I

Cari-Trans is proud to launch this new community-based project grounded in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago.

Developed through the Pleasure Fellowship, this work is led by our Founder & Executive Director, Glynn-Devon Bryan, and responds to gaps in how the lives of trans masculine people, masculine-presenting lesbians, and gender-diverse people are understood and represented.

Following an initial information session, the project now moves toward a roundtable to deepen discussion and inform advocacy.

We’re creating space to explore:
– Pleasure
– Embodiment
– Body autonomy
– Desire, safety, and lived experience

This work also addresses the spaces we don’t always share within our own communities, despite often fighting for the same rights and recognition.

Through animation, documentation, and the development of a practical toolkit, this project contributes to storytelling, knowledge-building, and future community-focused approaches across the region.

“This project is deeply personal for me. Our lives are often reduced to survival, while the fullness of our experiences are overlooked. If we cannot hold space for each other, we cannot expect others to do the same for us.”

- Glynn-Devon Bryan

With support from @the_pleasureproject

#wewholivehere #pleasurefellowship #transmasculine #caribbeantrans #embodiment by @ctsg_ja

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4 months ago

Yesterday marked a historic moment for CTSG. We finally had our open house for our new Hub House and it was definitely a moment we will never forget.

It was very beautiful to look around and be surrounded by so much love and so much support. We couldn’t ask for anything more 🤍🥺

Thank you to our funders who made this possible in the first place @fondoaccionurgenteal 🤍 this space means the world to us and will change the lives of many.

Thank you to our partners and donors@equalityja @transwaveja @queertego @uctranscaribbean @wearehereja @ec_equality for always believing in us, giving us strength where strength is needed to keep this initiative alive. We couldn’t have done it without you 🤍🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🫂🙏🏽

To those who are just getting to know us @cvccoalition we thank you for taking the time to see our dreams and lived experiences from a different lens. We welcome you the way you the same way made us feel welcome 🤍🙏🏽

CTSG looks forward to not only creating a space that focuses on providing emergency assistance to those in need, but creating a space where we can thrive as a community. We are here, queer and living without fear 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 together we can change the future of queer Jamaica ✊🏽✊🏽
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Ayer marcó un momento histórico para CTSG: celebramos la inauguración de nuestra nueva Hub House 💛 Fue hermoso estar rodeados de tanto amor y apoyo.

Gracias a nuestros financiadores, especialmente a Fondo Acción Urgente América Latina, por hacer posible este espacio que cambiará muchas vidas.

Gracias a nuestros aliados Equality for All Foundation Jamaica, TransWave Jamaica, Queer TeGO, United Caribbean Trans Network, We Are Here Jamaica y Equality Caribbean por creer en nosotros siempre.

A CVC Coalition, gracias por conocer nuestros sueños y experiencias.

CTSG no solo brindará asistencia de emergencia, sino un espacio donde podamos crecer y prosperar. Estamos aquí, somos queer y vivimos sin miedo. Juntxs podemos cambiar el futuro del Jamaica queer ✊🏽🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 by @ctsg_ja

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8 months ago

Heading to SALT this weekend? 🏖️🌈

We’ve got your ride sorted! CariMi658 is officially on the road. We are a private transport service by the community, for the community, dedicated to keeping locals and internationals safe, comfortable, and moving.

🚗 Affordable rates
🚨 On-call for any emergencies
📍 Find us at the SALT event! We will be set up at our very own Tattoo Booth @demigodinklabz , pull up and say hi, or grab info on booking a ride.

Need a lift to or from the event? Hit us up right now at 658-204-9849.

More info on the CariMi658 initiative is coming right after SALT, so keep an eye out for our next post. For now, let’s get you to the beach safely!

BIG UP @sapphicja @connekja WE OUTSIDE THIS WEEKND 🔥🔥🔥🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ by @ctsg_ja

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Check this out ! 😍 by @ctsg_ja

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6 days ago

Part 1 Bahamas Pride March 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ taken in Nassau, New Providence by @ctsg_ja

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7 days ago

LAVA TALKS continues with Glynn-Devon Bryan @__bipovibez . I met Glynn-Devon earlier this year, and his swagger, his voice and his beauty drew me to him instantly. A Jamaican trans man, he brings to MASCULINITY a deeply personal perspective—sharing his story, his journey, and what it means to claim and define manhood for himself.

This is exactly what LAVA TALKS is about: different men, different lives, different relationships with masculinity—and no demand that any one voice speak for everyone. Listen to Glynn-Devon. Sit with his perspective. Join the conversation. Two more voices to share before we close VOL. I NO. 1: MASCULINITY and move into our next topic. #LavaTalks #Masculinity #AdexLava by @ctsg_ja

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14 days ago

A crown is calling and the Trans Caribbean is answering.

Get ready for an unforgettable celebration of talent, beauty, resilience, and trans excellence as contestants from across the Caribbean take the stage and compete for the crown!

🇰🇳 St. Kitts & Nevis
🇦🇬 Antigua
🇧🇧 Barbados
🇸🇧 Saba
🇯🇲 Jamaica
🇧🇸 Bahamas
🇹🇹 Trinidad

From talent showcases to royal competition, this is more than average. It’s a celebration of our Caribbean trans and gender-diverse community.

📅 Sunday, 11 October
📍 Marriott Courtyard Ballroom

Come witness our Caribbean contestants compete for the crown!

TRANSCENDENCE ROYALE taken in The Bahamas by @ctsg_ja

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a month ago

WE WHO LIVE HERE - Part 1 of 2.

This is the first half of the conversation.

Trans masculine, masculine-presenting, and gender-diverse people in the Caribbean, sitting together, speaking freely, and redefining what pleasure means beyond survival.

We may be different in many ways, but we share the same struggles, the same joys, and the same need to be seen.

This is just one piece of our ongoing documentary project. Soon, you will get to sit with us individually, one-on-one, deeper, more personal. But for now, this is community.

Thank you to The Pleasure Project @the_pleasureproject for making this work possible. Additional support from CVC @cvccoalition And a special thank you to my co-director, Chelsea, for helping bring this to life.

And to every participant who trusted us with your voice, thank you. This project exists because of you.

Part 2 drops soon. The conversation continues.

#WeWhoLiveHere #PleasureFellowship #CariTrans #CaribbeanTransMasculine #NotASpectacle taken in Jamaica by @ctsg_ja

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2 months ago

It only makes sense when we stand together 🏳️‍⚧️

For many years trans women and trans men in the Caribbean have separated themselves from each other. We say UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Thank you @prideamsterdam for welcoming us here and thank you @uctranscaribbean @alexusdmarco for joining us in creating a world where trans masc and trans fem can share space together 🤍 taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @ctsg_ja

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2 months ago

WE WHO LIVE HERE: REDEFINING PLEASURE IN YHE CARIBBEAN- THE TRAILER.

We promised and now we deliver!

This project started with a question: What does pleasure mean to trans masculine, masculine-presenting, and gender-diverse people in the Caribbean, beyond survival?

Through the Pleasure Fellowship, I learned that pleasure is not just about sex, it is about body autonomy, safety, connection, and the freedom to exist without apology.

This trailer is a first look at our roundtable series, real conversations between real people. Some of us are trans men. Some are masculine-presenting lesbians. Some are non-binary or gender-diverse. We may be different in many ways, but we share a lot of the same struggles, the same joys, and the same desire to be seen.

We are stronger as a unit.

This is part one of a larger archive, the documentary is coming. But for now, this is what community sounds like when we stop performing and start speaking.

Thank you to The Pleasure Project for the fellowship and support @the_pleasureproject. Thank you to CVC @cvccoalition for helping us to make this possible. Much love to all participants who shared their stories and community for your support.

Watch. Share. Let them know we are here.

COMING SOON IN AUGUST!

#WeWhoLiveHere #PleasureFellowship #CariTrans #CaribbeanTransMasculine #NotASpectacle taken in Jamaica by @ctsg_ja

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3 months ago

Preparing for our animation and documentary we promised you! 🔥🔥

Not because Netflix asked us to.

But because our stories deserve to be told.

whether they’re watching or not.

Preview dropping SOON.

This is just the beginning.

🎬🔊🚀

#documentary #lgbtia #transmasc #nonbinary #mascpresenting by @ctsg_ja

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