SUPPORT BLACK TRANS FUTURES

Queer|Art executive staff and members of our board recently pledged $10,000 to support Black trans led organizations. We will be making a donation to For the Gworls, a fund that provides critical support for rent and gender-affirming surgery to Black trans people. We call on other white and non-Black led organizations to support Black trans led organizations with a similar commitment.

Below we have highlighted 20 Black trans-led organizations and initiatives whose work we encourage you to amplify and support today and every day. These groups are redistributing resources, providing care, and creating opportunities  for Black trans people to thrive within their communities. 

Rapid Response Fundraising

Body Hack Body Hack is an international Zoom gathering for trans and nonbinary partygoers put together by Christian Cisneros, Oscar Diaz and Queer|Art’s own Río Sofia. They are currently hosting 12 separate grassroots fundraisers benefitting Black trans individuals and organizations. Donate via: Website

Long Term Organizations to Support

Black Trans Media
Black Trans Media, founded by Sasha Alexander, is committed to building the power of Black trans people by creating and supporting media that amplifies the Black trans experience. The group organizes community based events around issues of injustice and liberation with Black trans folks at the center of their work and leadership.
Donate via: Website

Black Trans Protestors Emergency Fund
Black Trans Femmes in the Artists, founded by Morticia Godiva, is raising emergency funds for Black trans protestors in New York City. Excess funds donated to Black Trans Protestors Emergency Fund will be redistributed to Black trans-led orgs doing the work to minimize violence against Black trans people. 
Donate via: PayPal CashApp Venmo

Black Trans Travel Fund  
Devin Lowe is the founder of the Black Trans Travel Fund, a mutual-aid fund that provides Black transgender women with the financial resources necessary for them to be able to access their self-determined safest alternatives to travel.
Donate via: PayPal CashApp Venmo

Brave Space Alliance 
Brave Space Alliance is the first Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ Center located on the South Side of Chicago. Founded by LaSaia Wade, Brave Space Alliance is dedicated to creating and providing affirming, culturally competent, for-us by-us resources, programming, and services for LGBTQ individuals on the South and West sides of the city.
Donate via: Website

Dem Bois
Founded by Shawn Aaron in 2016, Dem Bois Inc. is a national non-profit organization that provides charitable economical aid for female to male, (FTM) trans-masculine identified person(s) of color ages twenty-one years old and older to support gender affirming surgeries like  chest reconstruction surgery, and/or genital reassignment surgery. Donate via: PayPal Amazon Smile

For The Gworls
Asanni York is the founder of For The Gworls, a collective that provides gender affirming surgery, rent, and medical assistance for black trans and gender non conforming youth through rent parties and grassroots fundraising. 
Donate via: Venmo CashApp PayPal

G.L.I.T.S
Founded by Ceyenne Doroshow, G.L.I.T.S approaches the health and rights crises faced by transgender sex workers holistically using harm reduction, human rights principles, economic and social justice, along with a commitment to empowerment and pride in finding solutions from within their own communities. 
Donate via: Website

House of GG
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, is the founder and executive director of House of GG, a collective of trans and gender nonconforming folks who work across the South to organize retreats that focus on nurturing caring relationships, leadership and organizing skills, healing, and mutual reliance.
Donate via: Website

House of Pentacles
Founded by Joie Lou Shakur, House of Pentacles is a Film Training Program and Production House designed to launch Black trans youth (ages 18-35) into the film industry and tell stories woven at the intersection of being Black and Trans. 
Donate via: Website 

Marsha P. Johnson Institute 
Founded by Elle Hearns, The Marsha P. Johnson Institute protects and defends the human rights of Black transgender people by organizing, advocating, creating an intentional community to heal, developing transformative leadership, and promoting collective power.
Donate via: Website

Middle Tennessee Black and Indigenous Support Fund
The Middle Tennessee Black and Indigenous Fund is a community fund for Black and Indigenous queer and trans folks living and participating in the gayborhood and queer community of rural Middle Tennessee. This community based project serves a rural tri-county region in the state that includes Dekalb, Canon, & Smith Counties. 
Donate via: PayPal 

My Sistah's House
Co-founded by Kayla Rena Gore and Ellyahnna C. Wattshall, My Sistah’s House provides emergency shelter, access to sexual health and social services, and sex worker survivor kits to the trans woman of color community in Memphis, Tennessee.
Donate via: PayPal

Nina Pop and Tony McDade Mental Health Recovery Funds
To honor Nina Pop, Tony McDade, and the many Black Trans people who been murdered by state-sanctioned violence, The Okra Project is dedicating $15,000 to create the Nina Pop Mental Health Recovery Fund and the Tony McDade Mental Health Recovery Fund. 
Donate via: PayPal (write Nina Pop Fund or Tony McDade Fund in the subject line)

SNaPCo
Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNApCo), is a black trans-led organization that provides economic support to black trans folks, peer-led political education grounded in a Black Trans Futurist Framework for Practical Abolition, and transformative campaigns that divest from the criminal legal system across Atlanta.
Donate via: PayPal

TAKE Birmingham
Daroneshia Duncan is the founder of TAKE Birmingham, a peer support group for trans women of color that provides crisis assistance funds, health education, life coaching, legal assistance, and street outreach and re-entry to trans women of color in Birmingham. 
Donate via: Website

TGI Justice Project
Janetta Johnson is the executive director of Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people—inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers—creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom by providing rigorous legal service work and peer advocacy power inside prisons, jails, and detention centers as well as outside in community.
Donate via: Website

TRANScending Barriers
Founded in 2017 by transgender women of color in Atlanta, TRANScending Barriers empowers the transgender and gender non-conforming community in Georgia through community organizing, leadership building, advocacy, and direct services that seeks to provide healing to those affected by the Prison Industrial Complex.
Donate via: Website

Trans Cultural District
Founded by three black trans women in 2017, the mission of Transgender Cultural District is to create an urban environment that fosters the rich history, culture, legacy, and empowerment of transgender people and its deep roots in the southeastern Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco. The Transgender District aims to stabilize and economically empower the transgender community through ownership of homes, businesses, historic and cultural sites, and safe community spaces.
Donate via: Gofundme

Trans Justice Funding Project
Founded by Gabriel Foster, The Trans Justice Funding Project provides financial support to local, grassroots groups organizing for trans justice. They center the leadership of trans people organizing around their experiences with racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, incarceration, and other intersecting oppressions.
Donate via: Website

The Okra Project
Founded by Ianne Fields Stewart, The Okra Project is a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People wherever they can reach them.     
Donate via: PayPal

Looking For More?

Annika Izora has been compiling an extensive list of 100+ creative ecosystems and funds supporting Black folks, prioritizing initiatives that support Black queer, trans, and nonbinary folks, and Black women. 

Raquel Willis has also created a list of Black trans-led organizations and initiatives to support.