bookishboi: :: Who we are :: We are B.Qullective, a group of people of color residing in Minnesota. :: What we are :: We are a community organization for Queer and Trans* identified people of color based in the Twin Cities. :: Our Mission :: The Brown Queer and Trans* Empowerment Collective strives to support the social, organizational, political, economic, educational, spiritual, and creative needs of queer/trans* communities of color in Minnesota. :: Our Beliefs :: We believe every queer and trans* person of color has the right to safe spaces; We believe every queer and trans* person of color deserves access to life resources such as housing, employment, education, transportation, healthcare, and creative spaces. We believe that our struggles are interdependent upon each other. None of our needs can be met without an intersectional approach to supporting our racial, sexual and gender identities; We believe that empowerment will come through communal organization. ::Our Vision::  B.QullecTivE seeks to provide physical and virtual resources and safe spaces exclusively for queer and trans people of color. We host a website featuring resources for jobs and housing, community organizations, virtual creative space, and events. We plan to one day operate and maintain a 24-hr safe space for queer & trans* people of color, where we will host community discussions, events, educational and creative workshops, and organizational meetings. Current Project: Operation B.Steady ! B.Qullective is bringing  B.Steady to the Twin Cities Pride to perform her music and conduct workshops for queer and transgender youth of color in regards to songwriting/performing. We need your help and support in order to make this happen! We’ve formed a kickstarter, and the link to that will be available soon. :: Contact Information :: Find us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bqullective Tumblr: http://thebqullective.tumblr.com/ By Email: b.qullective@gmail.com Paypal: [Help Fund B.Steady’s Performance at TC Pride!] Boost us!
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bookishboi:

:: Who we are ::

We are B.Qullective, a group of people of color residing in Minnesota.

:: What we are ::

We are a community organization for Queer and Trans* identified people of color based in the Twin Cities.

:: Our Mission ::

The Brown Queer and Trans* Empowerment Collective strives to support the social, organizational, political, economic, educational, spiritual, and creative needs of queer/trans* communities of color in Minnesota.

:: Our Beliefs ::

We believe every queer and trans* person of color has the right to safe spaces;
We believe every queer and trans* person of color deserves access to life resources such as housing, employment, education, transportation, healthcare, and creative spaces.
We believe that our struggles are interdependent upon each other. None of our needs can be met without an intersectional approach to supporting our racial, sexual and gender identities;
We believe that empowerment will come through communal organization.

::Our Vision::

 B.QullecTivE seeks to provide physical and virtual resources and safe spaces exclusively for queer and trans people of color.
We host a website featuring resources for jobs and housing, community organizations, virtual creative space, and events.
We plan to one day operate and maintain a 24-hr safe space for queer & trans* people of color, where we will host community discussions, events, educational and creative workshops, and organizational meetings.

Current Project: Operation B.Steady !

B.Qullective is bringing  B.Steady to the Twin Cities Pride to perform her music and conduct workshops for queer and transgender youth of color in regards to songwriting/performing. We need your help and support in order to make this happen! We’ve formed a kickstarter, and the link to that will be available soon.

:: Contact Information ::

Find us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bqullective

Tumblr: http://thebqullective.tumblr.com/

By Email: b.qullective@gmail.com

Paypal: [Help Fund B.Steady’s Performance at TC Pride!]

Boost us!

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tranqualizer: text from banner featuring various queer and trans API folks reads, “we urgently need to raise $10,000 by April 16th. donate at visibilityproject.org. contributions will fund: translations of interviews to multiple asian languages, archive and preservation of materials, publishing an online resource guide, 1 year of web and video hosting, mini tour of the midwest, and edit and upload of 63+ completed interviews.  if you are able, please help support the visibility project’s important work! i had a really good, fun, reflective time being interviewed by Mia.  here’s some more info on the fundraiser:  THE STORY: HELP THE VISIBILITY PROJECT RAISE $10,000 The Visibility Project is the most comprehensive intergenerational national photo and video platform that publishes collected histories of the Queer Asian American Women and Trans* community. My name is Mia Nakano and I’m the Director working from behind the camera and doing all the production. Over the past five years I’ve interviewed 120 people, in 14 cities, and 11 states. One big goal is to do a video/photo shoot in all 50 states. I urgently need your support to continue this work ensuring that LBTQ Asian American voices are heard, that our faces are seen, and that our histories are not lost. Please donate to this unique project today. DONATION SUGGESTIONS      $11    =   one dollar for each state I’ve visited    $30    =   storage space cost for one shoot/interview    $76    =   one dollar towards video to translate    $90    =   luggage fee for a roundtrip airline  $120    =   one dollar for each person photographed  $150    =   one year of web-hosting + domain names  $200    =   one year of a pro video hosting account  $300    =   average roundtrip airline ticket or backup hard-drives  $400    =   a fireproof safe to protect the project  $500    =   one hundred dollars for each year I’ve invested  $780    =   one dollar for each hour I worked in 2012$1000   =   one full day shoot (travel, studio, housing, etc) WHAT YOU’RE DIRECTLY FUNDING •  Paying for a year of web and video hosting•  Development of a comprehensive resource guide cataloged and searchable by geographic region, communities served, and topic. Immigration, legal, youth support, health, and more.•  Hiring community members to translate interviews to numerous Asian languages•  Edit and upload of 30+ backlogged videos and photos•  Fireproof safe to protect the digital media of the project•  A mini Midwest tour: Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Madison.  HOW ELSE CAN YOU HELP? Every little bit you contribute counts. If you can pitch in a few dollars, maybe you work for a company that does matching donations! Or you can get 5 friends to pitch in a few dollars too! This fundraiser is critical to the future of this project. WHO IS BEHIND THE PROJECT? Mia Nakano is a freelance media artist, educator, and activist based out of Oakland, CA. She is the Director and lead artist hustling to make the Visibility Project work though in-kind donations, asking friends and strangers to volunteer, and just basically making asks. Wherever and whenever she can use art to make social justice, Mia is there. She’s worked with Colorlines, the Applied Research Center, the FreetheHikers movement, Salon.com and is the founding photo-editor of Hyphen magazine. Nakano is currently a board member of the Queer Cultural Center (QCC). Fiscal sponsor: The Visibility Project is fiscally sponsored by Chinese for Affirmative Action San Francisco. All donations are tax deductible.
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tranqualizer:

text from banner featuring various queer and trans API folks reads, “we urgently need to raise $10,000 by April 16th. donate at visibilityproject.org. contributions will fund: translations of interviews to multiple asian languages, archive and preservation of materials, publishing an online resource guide, 1 year of web and video hosting, mini tour of the midwest, and edit and upload of 63+ completed interviews. 

if you are able, please help support the visibility project’s important work! i had a really good, fun, reflective time being interviewed by Mia. 

here’s some more info on the fundraiser: 

THE STORY:

HELP THE VISIBILITY PROJECT RAISE $10,000

The Visibility Project is the most comprehensive intergenerational national photo and video platform that publishes collected histories of the Queer Asian American Women and Trans* community. My name is Mia Nakano and I’m the Director working from behind the camera and doing all the production. Over the past five years I’ve interviewed 120 people, in 14 cities, and 11 states. One big goal is to do a video/photo shoot in all 50 states. I urgently need your support to continue this work ensuring that LBTQ Asian American voices are heard, that our faces are seen, and that our histories are not lost. Please donate to this unique project today.

DONATION SUGGESTIONS

     $11    =   one dollar for each state I’ve visited
    $30    =   storage space cost for one shoot/interview
    $76    =   one dollar towards video to translate
    $90    =   luggage fee for a roundtrip airline
  $120    =   one dollar for each person photographed
  $150    =   one year of web-hosting + domain names
  $200    =   one year of a pro video hosting account
  $300    =   average roundtrip airline ticket or backup hard-drives
  $400    =   a fireproof safe to protect the project
  $500    =   one hundred dollars for each year I’ve invested
  $780    =   one dollar for each hour I worked in 2012
$1000   =   one full day shoot (travel, studio, housing, etc)

WHAT YOU’RE DIRECTLY FUNDING

•  Paying for a year of web and video hosting
•  Development of a comprehensive resource guide cataloged and searchable by geographic region, communities served, and topic. Immigration, legal, youth support, health, and more.
•  Hiring community members to translate interviews to numerous Asian languages
•  Edit and upload of 30+ backlogged videos and photos
•  Fireproof safe to protect the digital media of the project
•  A mini Midwest tour: Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Madison. 

HOW ELSE CAN YOU HELP?

Every little bit you contribute counts. If you can pitch in a few dollars, maybe you work for a company that does matching donations! Or you can get 5 friends to pitch in a few dollars too! This fundraiser is critical to the future of this project.

WHO IS BEHIND THE PROJECT?

Mia Nakano is a freelance media artist, educator, and activist based out of Oakland, CA. She is the Director and lead artist hustling to make the Visibility Project work though in-kind donations, asking friends and strangers to volunteer, and just basically making asks. Wherever and whenever she can use art to make social justice, Mia is there. She’s worked with Colorlines, the Applied Research Center, the FreetheHikers movement, Salon.com and is the founding photo-editor of Hyphen magazine. Nakano is currently a board member of the Queer Cultural Center (QCC).

Fiscal sponsor: The Visibility Project is fiscally sponsored by Chinese for Affirmative Action San Francisco. All donations are tax deductible.

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Source: tranqualizer

queerumich: The Coalition for Queer People of Color has a brand new website! Check it out here: http://theqpoccoalition.org/  You can find a list of meeting times, upcoming events, and important announcements under What’s the Tea?. The website’s also got a listing of local, national, and online Resources, info on the rXs intragroup dialogue program, or just information About the Coalition in general. Want to know more about The Coalition? The Coalition is a diverse group of University of Michigan students, faculty, staff, and Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti community members who are committed to building community around, and highlighting the lived experiences of, queer, trans*, and similarly self-identified people of color. The Coalition is open to anyone with an interest in promoting social and racial justice (allies included!).
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queerumich:

The Coalition for Queer People of Color has a brand new website!

Check it out here: http://theqpoccoalition.org/ 

You can find a list of meeting times, upcoming events, and important announcements under What’s the Tea?. The website’s also got a listing of local, national, and online Resources, info on the rXs intragroup dialogue program, or just information About the Coalition in general.

Want to know more about The Coalition?

The Coalition is a diverse group of University of Michigan students, faculty, staff, and Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti community members who are committed to building community around, and highlighting the lived experiences of, queer, trans*, and similarly self-identified people of color. The Coalition is open to anyone with an interest in promoting social and racial justice (allies included!).

safespacenetwork: safespacenetwork: joepine: ceasesilence: [Image description: an ask message from mygayshoes to ceasesilence on 7-13-2012. The message says, “Thesafespace network is currently compiling a list of shelters, and safe zones for Trans* and/or Queer Women, with an emphasis on shelters that are safe and respectful to POC, and what is accessible for people with disabilities. We really need submissions and assistance however, as most of us are based in places like Australia. As this rate though, the first half of the list (Which covers North and South America) should be up in a week or two.” Ceasesilence responds, “Thank you! Followers, if you know any shelters or safe zones, please submit to them!” End description.] SIGNAL BOOST With information regarding Safe Zone Shelters Contact mygayshoes.tumblr.com Look. Right now this project is overdue by my standards, and that isn’t acceptable to me. Unfortunately, trying to check, and verify the very EXISTENCE of a shelter, let alone their track record/credibility is difficult. Doing this as a 16 year old from Australia complicates this matter tenfold.  Which is why I’m asking you guys; Considering recent events, this is something that needs to be available, but we need submissions and links, we need people even nudging us in the right direction! Send in whatever you can! Please Signal Boost this! ~Maddy
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safespacenetwork:

safespacenetwork:

joepine:

ceasesilence:

[Image description: an ask message from mygayshoes to ceasesilence on 7-13-2012. The message says, “Thesafespace network is currently compiling a list of shelters, and safe zones for Trans* and/or Queer Women, with an emphasis on shelters that are safe and respectful to POC, and what is accessible for people with disabilities. We really need submissions and assistance however, as most of us are based in places like Australia. As this rate though, the first half of the list (Which covers North and South America) should be up in a week or two.” Ceasesilence responds, “Thank you! Followers, if you know any shelters or safe zones, please submit to them!” End description.]

SIGNAL BOOST

With information regarding Safe Zone Shelters Contact mygayshoes.tumblr.com

Look. Right now this project is overdue by my standards, and that isn’t acceptable to me. Unfortunately, trying to check, and verify the very EXISTENCE of a shelter, let alone their track record/credibility is difficult. Doing this as a 16 year old from Australia complicates this matter tenfold. 

Which is why I’m asking you guys;

Considering recent events, this is something that needs to be available, but we need submissions and links, we need people even nudging us in the right direction!

Send in whatever you can!

Please Signal Boost this!

~Maddy

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sqs-tec: Please help us spread the word about this! All too often there are queer events but not many queer events specifically for people of color. It’s our aim to provide at least one night geared towards our community. This comes at an important time when recently some QPOC individuals were denied entry at a local event. This is event is by and for QPOC in Chicago. It will NOT be held in Lakeview/Boystown. We are still searching for the right space but let’s get the word out that this is happening! QPOC are coming together this August! Thank you!
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sqs-tec:

Please help us spread the word about this! All too often there are queer events but not many queer events specifically for people of color. It’s our aim to provide at least one night geared towards our community. This comes at an important time when recently some QPOC individuals were denied entry at a local event. This is event is by and for QPOC in Chicago. It will NOT be held in Lakeview/Boystown.

We are still searching for the right space but let’s get the word out that this is happening! QPOC are coming together this August!

Thank you!

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Source: sqs-tec

myqueertestimony:

Testimony by ARNAB BANERJI (www.asaap.ca)

About the Project:

“Colour Me Queer” is an community-based photography project conceptualized by prominent Queer activist and Photographer Arnab Banerji with stories from queer-identified community models. Organized in partnership with ASAAP, this project recognizes the role of pride, shame, self-esteem and body politics in how we negotiate sex and interact with partners. Personal stories of pride, resilience and love from South Asian queer-identified models are depicted through narrative and photographed by Arnab.

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Source: thepublicstudio

The Black Feminist Manifesto Needs Your Voice!

nuestrahermana:

The Black Feminist Manifesto is a collection of work created by and for people of color!

Please consider submitting your original words, thoughts, art, poetry or photography.

This is an online zine that will be periodically printed & sent out in to the world.

Please follow (white allies welcome to listen) & submit your work beautiful people!

Reblog for any of your followers who may want to be part of this wonderful community opportunity!

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Source: nuestrahermana

Nearly There: A Queer POC Zine

thepeculiarkind:

Deadline: 1 August 2012

Nearly There: A Queer POC Zine

What: Nearly There is a zine project meant to address the serious absence and silencing of stories about the experiences of queer people of color. For those of us who occupy the spaces of both queer and of color (along with all our other identities), this project is about creating an arena where we can listen and be heard, find commonality and difference, and leave a mark in the making of our own queer history and POC history.

Who: Knowing full well that for many of us, terms like queer or LGBTQ+ often do not and cannot truly measure who we are but being limited by the lack of other terms, this project is for, by, and about queer/LGBTQ+ youth of color including those of us who are low-income/working class, 1st/1.5/2nd/3rd generation im/migrants, city based, Mestiz@, Chican@, rural based, bi/multi racial or mixed, undocumented, same-gender-lovin, formerly or currently incarcerated, parents, dark skinned, from any spiritual background, college educated, butch, femme, aggs, street-involved, etc, etc, etc.

Theme: For this first issue, the theme is relatively open and inclusive of any issue, concern, or interest of queer POC. Ideally looking for submissions about in/visibility in queer and POC communities, discourses on coming/being out or not, finding and creating queer POC spaces, and more. Email me with your questions! Submit: stories, poetry, art, non-fiction (in any format), drawings, photos, portraits, quotes, essays, etc.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries/ submissions: nearlytherezine@gmail.com

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Source: thepeculiarkind

Racism in America’s police force is linked to their role as keepers of the status quo in an unequal society. They enforce laws written by politicians on behalf of the wealthy — laws that end up trapping poor and working-class people in desperate lives. Racial and sexual minorities, legal and illegal immigrants are seen as threats to the social order.
Nicholas Powers, “‘They Think We Are Animals’: How America’s Police State Controls Black People” (via ftm-communist)

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