Lavender Phoenix

🎓 To our 2024 Summer Organizers: CONGRATULATIONS! 🎓

This summer, the 15th annual cohort of Summer Organizers joined us to grow and transform. 🌲

They helped prepare festivities for our 20th anniversary, chronicled our histories through interviews with our community, created powerful cultural work encapsulating our stories and experiences, and more! ✨

Through their projects and in-depth trainings, they also learned new lessons in asking for help, giving and receiving compassionate feedback, building lifelong connections, and doing the exciting and often difficult work of organizing in a sustainable way.

Please send them some love and help send them to the next part of their journeys! ☺️

Thanks to everyone who joined us for graduation, thank you to SOPs for the dedication and the joy they brought to LavNix this summer, and thank you to and .ca for hosting our SOPs this summer too!

📸 Image Descriptions:
#1: a photo of 11 trans and q***r APIs pose outside, happily gazing towards the camera wearing safety masks.
#2: a photo of ~30 trans and q***r APIs and allies on Zoom smiling at the SOP graduation.
#3: a photo of a small group of trans and q***r APIs smiling on Zoom at the SOP final day.

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Are you ready to transform HOPE INTO ACTION? 🤲

This fall, Lavender Phoenix will launch our second Rise Up cohort -- a training series to prepare YOU as rising leaders in our movement. Across three sessions, the 2024 Rise Up cohort will root in our Lavender Phoenix history and values,  strengthen political praxis and organizing skills, and build deep relationships with each other. 

If you are a trans and q***r Asian and/or Pacific Island living in the Bay Area and looking for a political home, we need YOU to RSVP to Rise Up!

RSVPs are due by Monday, 8/25, at 11:59pm PT. Feel free to message us back if you have any questions! Check out the info below ✨

❤️‍🔥Rise Up: Join LavNix’s New Member Cohort! 
📅WHEN: Sundays from 1-4pm PT  (exact dates: 10/6, 10/20, and 11/3).
🌐WHERE: Online (Zoom details to be available after you RSVP!) 
💛ACCESS: This event will be held on Zoom. We will provide auto closed captioning. We will do our best to meet access needs shared with us on the RSVP form before! 
📝RSVP HERE: bit.ly/lavnixriseup24

Light the Way, our 20th Anniversary, is TWO WEEKS AWAY! This is our last call for tickets–there are only 30 left. Grab one at the link in our bio and get ready for an afternoon of warm welcomes, thoughtful reflection, delicious food, and inspiring cultural work. See you on August 24th 🥳

📸 🫵  We’re compiling a slideshow of photos to showcase the past two decades and beyond! Do you have any rad photos of LavNix from the past? Submit photos at bit.ly/lavnixphotos ‼️

📅WHEN: Saturday, August 24th, 4pm-7pm (program begins at 4:30)
🌐WHERE: Humanist Hall (Please enter at the back, 411 28th St, Oakland, CA 94612)
🎫TICKETS: Purchase tickets to RSVP at the link in our bio! Ticketing tiers support our annual fundraising campaign, “Sustain the Flames of Change!”
🍛FOOD: We’re partnering with our friends from to provide dinner with yummy vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, and nut-free options.
💛ACCESS: The space is wheelchair accessible with a ramp. We ask folks to attend fragrance-free.  Seats will be available inside for the program, and outside for all other activities. There will be projected sound.
😷COVID PRECAUTIONS: Vaccine + updated boosters, KN95 masks, & rapid test required. Food will be served outside, and masks required when not eating & drinking. The indoor space will have large, open windows and air filters. We will provide additional tests & masks.

❣️ Our 15th cohort of Summer Organizers are graduating & we need YOUR help to celebrate them! 💖

Our 2024 SOP cohort — Arianna, Arina, Apolo, Asia, Cid, Hazel, and Rosie — have spent 9 weeks with us leading projects to grow our power, deepening their practice of our values, and building relationships! As our program comes to an end, they’re so excited to share about their summer with YOU!

Join us to learn about their reflections and growth and support the next steps in their organizing journeys!

📆 WHEN: Thursday, 8/8, 6-7:45pm PT
🌐 WHERE: Zoom! Link sent after RSVP.
🫂 WHO: LavNix community!
💛 ACCESS: This event will be on Zoom. We will provide automatic closed captioning. We will do our best to meet access needs shared with us by Tuesday, 8/6.
🔗 RSVP: bitl.y/2024SOPGrad

Lavender Phoenix’s 20th Anniversary is just around the corner! It’s been so long since we’ve gathered as a community to reflect and connect like this, and we want to invite YOU to be part of this celebration of trans and q***r API organizing. “Light the Way” will be filled with incredible performers, activities, and opportunities to fill up our cups and get ready for the moment ahead.

Check out some of the incredible folks we have lined up, including , , and AROC’s very own Sharif. Will we see you there on August 24th?

📅WHEN: Saturday, August 24th, 4pm-7pm (program begins at 4:30)
🌐WHERE: Humanist Hall (390 27th St., Oakland, CA 94612)
🎫TICKETS: Purchase tickets to RSVP at the link in our bio! Ticketing tiers support our annual fundraising campaign, “Sustain the Flames of Change!”
🍛FOOD: We will provide a light dinner with yummy vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, and nut-free options.
💛ACCESS: The space is wheelchair accessible with a ramp. We ask folks to attend fragrance-free. We will respond to other access needs collected by 8/9 via the ticketing form.
😷COVID PRECAUTIONS: Vaccine + updated boosters, KN95 masks, & rapid test required. Food will be served outside, and masks required when not eating & drinking. The indoor space will have large, open windows and air filters. We will provide additional tests & masks.

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🗣️Ain’t no power like THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE ‘cuz the power of the people DON’T STOP!! (say what?!) 🗣️

👀Have you met some of our members at an action recently for or seen us at SF City Hall demanding city officials to redirect hundred of millions dollars back to our communities??   👀

✊ , we practice interdependence and innovation anytime we connect to keep each other safe. Whether it’s training hundreds of QTAPIs to intervene in violence without the police, to securing each other’s digital safety needs, our Community Safety team guides us through it all!! ✊

🔥 Will you support LavNix to continue keeping our community safe for the long haul? 🔥

We need  🌱YOU 🌱to reach our goal of raising $50,000 from individual grassroots donors by Aug. 24th!!! 💸 💪🔥

📋 SIGN UP at bit.ly/2024lavnixfun to attend one of our last online fundraising trainings on August 22nd! All experience levels are welcome 😄

💸DONATE at lavenderphoenix.org/donate 

📸Image description: there is a collage of 3 different images – 1) a crowd of QTAPI organizers holding a banner that reads: WE’RE ASIANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS TRANS & PROUD 2) a crowd of QTAPI organizers with their left fists raised, marching with a purple banner that reads: Police Out of Pride 3) a selfie of QTAPI organizers, some of them are raising their fists and wearing a purple LavNix shirt. The photos are on top of a dark textured background, with drawn orange flames framing the design and a white LavNix phoenix logo in the top left corner. Text reads: “Sustain the Flames of Change. Join us to raise $50,000 by 8/24! Donate at lavenderphoenix.org/donate.”

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✊ RISE UP, RESIST! NO KILLER COPS OR JAILS! ❌👮‍♂️

💢 THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS GUILTY AS HELL ‼️

🏳️‍⚧️Last Friday, we turned up at to call for CEASEFIRE NOW & CARE NOT COPS. For this historic 10th Annual Trans API Contingent, LavNix’s comrades from , , , , , , , ***rcrescent , and joined us in marching for our liberation!

🇵🇸❌👮‍♂️While the IDF raises rainbow flags to justify their genocide in Palestine, we march to demand a Ceasefire Now. While the City of San Francisco is declared a sanctuary for trans people, we march to demand our city officials deliver true Care, Not Cops.

We will keep building stronger networks of organizations that resist the powers who only aim to hurt us. We refuse to have our resources and lives continuously robbed by the IDF and SFPD. We honor our history of Pride as a Riot! Our trans and q***r community rejects these blatant forms of pinkwashing and we march for the care we know this world deserves! 

❤️‍🔥Thank you to our organizers who fiercely led us in our march & to our community partners who joined us for this historic contingent. If we are to fight for a better world, we must ORGANIZE. 

📸 Image Description: a collection of NUMBER photos of trans, non-binary, and q***r Asians and Pacific Islanders speaking into a microphone and marching down streets in San Francisco chanting. 

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✊ Rest in Power Banko Brown.

Today, we honor Banko Brown. Banko was a 24-year old Black trans man & community activist who was shot and killed over $14 by a Walgreens security guard on this date a year ago. 

Banko died because the Mayor prioritizes maximizing profits more than she does meeting the fundamental needs of the people of San Francisco. From armed security at retail stores to SFPD, the Mayor's solutions to safety only rob San Franciscans of their lives & dignity.

🫂 A safe city protects people, not profits. In a safe city we take care of EVERYONE and invest in community-based approaches to housing, education, healthcare, & safety. These approaches continue to prove successful and life-saving, while the police and armed security aggravate poverty & violence at every turn.

🚨 From excessive force, weaponry, and neglect, police forces keep killing Black and brown q***r youth. In memory of Banko Brown, and all those others harmed by police violence, we will not allow SFPD to receive funding without consequence.

Banko's life MATTERED, and in remembrance of his life, we demand care, not cops.

📸 Image description: In a circular paper frame, there is a photo of Banko Brown. Banko is slightly smiling, wearing a yellow hat and top. White text highlighted in black surrounds the frame, reading: "Rest in Power Banko Brown". The background is purple and textured, with an illustration of purple flowers with green leaves and stems. 

🔥JOIN LAVENDER PHOENIX’S FUNDRAISING TEAM! 🔥

✊Lavender Phoenix sustains the flames of change by mobilizing our Bay Area communities to advocate for redirecting the police budget & restoring it to addressing our real needs—housing, healthcare, & community. We develop new generations of trans & q***r API leaders, & provide healing care to transform our lives from scarcity to abundance.

🫂LavNix can only build transformative solutions that address our community's needs because of grassroots donors. Every year, we count on more than 1,000 people to support us: people who believe we need to sustain the flames of change for a world with safety, interdependence, and self-determination for TQAPIs & all people.

💸To sustain our work, we're running a grassroots fundraising campaign for our 20th Anniversary!! We need to raise $80,000 by August 24th: our BIGGEST goal ever!

We need everyone’s support as we renew ourselves and our world. Will you help LavNix rise to new heights?

💫 Join our fundraising team, learn the skills necessary for grassroots fundraising, & support LavNix in sustainably putting our values into action! 💫

Sign up at bit.ly/2024lavnixfun & attend one of 3 online training dates:
1️⃣Thursday 5/23 @ 5:30-8pm
2️⃣Thursday 6/13 @ 5:30-8pm
3️⃣Thursday 7/18 or 25 (TBD!) @ 5:30-8pm

💸SIGN UP & DONATE at the link in our bio! 💸
Please share, repost, SAVE, and b**st to your communities, too.

📸Image description: There is an illustrated setting of a lavender-colored forest with a group of BIPOC folk gathering logs, creating a collective fire. Text reads: “Sustain the flames of change. Join Lavender Phoenix’s Fundraising Volunteer Team & raise resources for trans and q***r liberation! Sign up at bit.ly/2024lavnixfun”

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✊ Oppressive institutions of “safety” like policing aren’t working, and ending violence doesn’t happen alone. 

In a world where policing & prisons ROB us of our safety, dignity, & resources, we keep us safe. Bring your friends and join us on for this two part workshop to build de-escalation skills for creating community safety. Learn to intervene in situations of violence, conflict and harm while rooting in three key values: abolition, interdependence, and self-determination. RSVP at bit.ly/LavNixSafety by 5/5!

Part 1: Prepare Our People 
🫂WHO: Centering Trans & Q***r BIPOC, & allies are welcome!
📅WHEN: Thurs, 5/9 6:30-8pm
🌐WHERE: Online (Zoom details to be available after you RSVP!)
💛ACCESS: This event will be held on Zoom with closed captions. We will do our best to meet access needs shared with us on the RSVP form before!

Part 2: Protect Our People
🫂WHO: Centering Trans & Q***r BIPOC, & allies are welcome!
📅WHEN: Sat, 5/11 12-2:30 PM
🌐WHERE: SF Chinatown
💛ACCESS: Free of cost, all gender restroom access. We will provide an optional lunch at 2:30pm after the in-person training. Please share additional needs in RSVP form! 
😷COVID PRECAUTIONS: Vaccine + updated boosters, KN95 masks, & rapid test (we will have extras on hand) required.

📮RSVP HERE: bit.ly/LavNixSafety

📸 Image description: Text reads ""De-Escalation Training; Part 1: Prepare Our People, May 9, 6:30-8 PM Online on Zoom; Part 2: Protect Our People, May 11, 12-2:30 PM, In Person in SF Chinatown; RSVP at bit.ly/LavNixSafety"" over a green textured background. There are logos for Lavender Phoenix and the Care Not Cops campaign in the bottom left corner. There is a photo of a LavNix members facilitating a previous de-escalation training - QTAPI folk are lifting their arms up and putting their hands out.

🌊 "I want to honor the grief I feel, the grief we feel, together.

I think for me, honoring it looks like building a world where you can call for help & we come running. I think for me, honoring it looks like walking towards a group of people & trusting them enough, trusting yourself enough to grieve collectively."

"I think honoring it looks like being here right now, together." - E, Healing Justice Core Member. 🫀

This weekend, 45 LavNix members & staff gathered in-person & online for our annual Member Assembly! 🌅

Over nourishing meals from , our Core member-leaders led us in exploring the grief of the last few months. We connected in care pods, & asked ourselves what it would take to organize with our full-selves in tow.

We closed by hearing from members who planned the “Care Not Cops” campaign to win back the resources our folks in San Francisco truly need to thrive! One of our leaders M shared: "This campaign reminds me that even when it's hard, we can demand alternatives that prioritize compassion and care." ✊

As we launch into a bold campaign season & help fight to end the US-backed genocide unfolding in Gaza, may we remember this time—the depth of our connections, the hope we help each other feel—& allow it to anchor us. ⚓

📷: thanks to Mioi for the beautiful, powerful photos.
🏠: thank you to for hosting us!
🤝: thank you to all of the members who volunteered to make this year's Member Assembly possible.

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As trans and q***r people, we know very intimately the harm that the police enact on our communities. Mayor London Breed and the SFPD continue to invest in policing in OUR name, telling the story that both q***r people and API people need MORE police. Together, we can combat these imposed narratives and assert OUR story -- that we demand CARE NOT COPS.

Join Lavender Phoenix and Bay Area Q***r Zine Fest for a free zine-making workshop! No experience needed. We’ll reflect on the radical expansiveness of zines and have an open discussion on the experience of being policed. We will create powerful art pieces for a collective zine in the theme of the Care Not Cops campaign. By using art and zines as a form of resistance, we organize against institutions and to inspire a future where trans folks are protected, loved, and nourished!!

👥 WHO: All are welcome, and we will be centering and uplifting the voices of trans and q***r BIPOC in the SF Bay Area who have been directly impacted by policing (including prison and psychiatric incarceration, deportation, street sweeps, etc).
📅WHEN: Sunday, April 28, 1PM-3PM
🌐WHERE: Online (Zoom details to be available after you RSVP!)
💛ACCESS: This event will be held on Zoom with closed captions. We will do our best to meet access needs shared with us on the RSVP form before!
📮RSVP HERE: bit.ly/CNCZine

📸 Image description: Text reads "Lavender Phoenix x Bay Area Q***r Zine Fest Care Not Cops! Zine Making Workshop. April 28 1PM-3PM on Zoom. RSVP at: bit.ly/CNCZine" over a purple textured background. There are speech bubbles made of paper that contain the LavNix phoenix logo as well as the BAQZF logo of a cute angel, a pencil, and some stars. There is an illustration of a folded zine and a dashed line.

❤️‍🩹❌👮‍♀️ CARE NOT COPS! Today marks the official launch for Lavender Phoenix's Care Not Cops campaign. We call on the community to join us in winning back the resources San Francisco needs to survive and thrive!

Ever since 2004, Lavender Phoenix has built grassroots transgender and q***r Asian and Pacific Islander power in the San Francisco Bay Area. As systems continue to fail us, our work has ALWAYS been about the safety of our communities. However, after distributing hundreds of safety kits & leading a powerful contingent last June during Pride, the people in power voted on yet another budget that funded the same institutions that hurt our people and steal money from our communities.

💰 The cops are ROBBING us. We demand the Mayor redirect 50% of the SFPD budget towards true solutions for San Francisco residents to survive & thrive.

🫂 In a safe city, we take care of EVERYONE. We demand the Mayor restore $400 million from the SFPD budget to meet the fundamental needs of the people of San Francisco!

In the coming months, we will continue to report back on campaign updates and announce upcoming workshops and trainings (spoiler alert: zine workshop & de-escalation training coming soon)!

📄✊ Right now, we ask that our community fill out our petition at bit.ly/CNCPetition to assert our demands to Mayor London Breed & share this post to spread word about the Care Not Cops campaign!

“My summer with Lavender Phoenix expanded my imagination for what I thought was possible for myself and my communities. I learned what it meant to build practices that cultivated nourishing and accountable relationships..” - Connie, Class of ‘16. 📣

If you’re ready to challenge yourself as an organizer and build communities that center both belonging and purpose, apply for LavNix’s Summer Organizer Program! This 8-week stipended apprenticeship is an opportunity to deepen relationships and learn to organize. Applications are due in a few days! Apply by February 28 at bit.ly/LAVNIX24! 💖

[Image Description: on a pink paper-textured background, text reads: “Lavender Phoenix, Summer Organizer Program! Apply by 2/28, bit.ly/LAVNIX24. “My summer with LavNix expanded my imagination for what I thought was possible for myself and my communities. I learned what it meant to build practices that cultivated nourishing and accountable relationships., -Connie, Class of ‘16” Next to the text is a flower shaped frame with a black and white image inside of a smiling Connie, who is wearing glasses and a long sleeve shirt. Surrounding the text and image are paper cut outs of a green star and megaphone, ripped up pieces of pink and purple papers, and doodles of flowers.]

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“As I continue to move through this question of what it means to truly build a new world, I will always think about the beautiful spaces the Lavender Phoenix Summer Organizer Program carved out to allow us to truly live our values.” - Julz, Class of ‘22. 📣

Are you a young trans and q***r API person, ready to fight for and build a liberated world? Apply for LavNix’s Summer Organizer Program to build relationships and work towards trans and racial justice. Send in your application at bit.ly/LAVNIX24 by February 28! ⭐

[Image Description: on a pink paper-textured background, text reads: “Lavender Phoenix, Summer Organizer Program! Apply by 2/28, bit.ly/LAVNIX24. “As I continue to move through this question of what it means to truly build a new world, I will always think about the beautiful spaces SOP carved out to allow us to truly live our values.” - Julz, Class of ‘22.” Next to the text is a star shaped frame with an image inside of Julz in a green top, smiling at the camera. The sun sets over the water behind them. Surrounding the text and image are paper cut outs of a green flower and left fist, ripped up pieces of pink and purple papers, and doodles of stars.]

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"Can cultivating belonging help our movements thrive?"

The stakes are high in 2024. In this age of growing alienation and rising fascism, we must be equipped to make our movements powerful, transformative, and sustainable.

Join us and Lavender Phoenix's former Executive Director Sammie Ablaza Wills on Feb 19th from 3-4:30pm PT / 6-7:30pm ET for the launch of Right-Sized Belonging: Six Practices for Organizers! This workbook and website features different ways for base-building and movement organizations to get better at cultivating belonging (and what we risk if we ignore this fundamental need).

At the event you’ll learn more about how belonging shapes our organizing, and hear directly from incredible panelists: Elliott Fukui, Gopal Dayaneni, Michael Strom, and NTanya Lee. 🔗​ RSVP at: bit.ly/BelongingPractices! 🔗​

📅​ WHEN: February 19th from 3-4:30pm PT / 6-7:30pm ET
🌐​ WHERE: Online (Zoom details to be available after you RSVP!)
🔗​ RSVP: http://bit.ly/BelongingPractices
💛​ ACCESS: This event will be recorded, and ONLY panelists and presenters will be on video and microphone. There will be professional CART (live captioning) available..

🤔 HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR SUMMER ORGANIZER PROGRAM? 🤔

This year, we are hosting a virtual info session on February 13 from 6-7:15pm PT! Our session will be co-hosted by former SOPs Iris & Sammie who are excited to share about their experiences and answer your questions. If you're curious about the ins and outs of the program or how you might grow, this session is for you! 💟

And, if you have questions about our application process, program logistics or content, or Lavender Phoenix, this session is also for you! Please note that you do not need to submit your application prior to attending this session. SEE YOU THERE! 🫂

[Image Description: on a pink paper-textured background, text reads: “Lavender Phoenix, Summer Organizer Program! Learn more about our program with past summer organizers, Sammie and Iris ! 2/13, 6-7:15pm PT. RSVP by 2/12. bit.ly/LavNix24InfoSession” Next to the text are two circular frames with images inside of 1) a smiling Sammie, who has a curly black mullet, glasses, and a blue, green, and white patterned sweater + 2) a smiling Iris, who has long pink hair and a white top, posing in front of a cherry blossom tree . Surrounding the text and images are paper cut outs of a green star burst, ripped up pieces of pink and purple papers, and doodles of arrows.]

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📢📢 APPLY FOR LAVNIX’S SUMMER ORGANIZER PROGRAM!!! 📢📢

We are looking for trans, non-binary and q***r Asians and Pacific Islanders who are ready to grow our community, learn our histories, and build organizing skills in service of justice. Join our team for the epic 15TH YEAR of this historic program! ⭐

This is an 8-week, stipended position for members of our community to transform into life-long organizers. Tag someone who might be interested, & check out bit.ly/LAVNIX24 for the full application and information. Applications are due February 28! 💖

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From PALESTINE to the PHILIPPINES — STOP the US WAR MACHINE! 🇵🇸✊🏽

Today, the Asians for a Liberated Palestine contingent marched with to and his liberatory legacy. 💖 We were honored to join our comrades from , , , & more in the streets.

We’re grateful to APTP for this chance to start 2024 in the spirit of Dr. King’s fierce, loving commitment to the fight for ALL of our freedom, EVERYWHERE. This year, we continue to struggle for a free Palestine. We face critical battles to win budgets in Oakland and San Francisco that invest in life, not cops. 🌱

This day is a reminder that none of our communities are alone in these fights. Just as Dr. King struggled to end the American wars in Vietnam & Southeast Asia, we will continue to combat the racism, materialism, militarism he saw at the heart of violence. We’ll do so everywhere they appear. We’ll continue to organize, strategize, and keep each other safe, as we build the “person-oriented society” he dreamed of and dedicated his life to. 💛

🚨 LavNix’s 2023 In Review! 🚨

We began last year by grieving the shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay. Now, less than a year later, we continue to wake up each and every day in the shadow of mass death as our government funds the genocide, displacement, imprisonment, and colonization of Palestinians.

This year, a sacred duty we hold as organizers has grown clearer than ever—to give our people real, concrete reasons to feel hopeful. 🌲

As we face a pivotal year in the struggle against the life-swallowing status quo of rising fascism, militarism, transphobia, and more: Lavender Phoenix staff and members will hold our communities with love and rigor. 🌿

🔗 Visit the link in our bio to read a letter from our Director, & to learn even more about our work this year. 🔗

🎨: Incredible design & illustrations by .sketch

Send some love to LavNix’s Core Committee! ✊❤️‍🔥

Core Committee was founded 6 years ago as a space for members and staff to lead the organization, together. With representatives from all 6 LavNix Committees, Core helps us ensure every part of LavNix is rooted in shared values and a transformative vision for the future.❣️

Last week, we gathered at our annual retreat to dive deeply into that work. We situated our current work in the context of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We located each of our roles in our campaigns for 2024. We affirmed our commitment to each other & our people, even when it’s hard, by welcoming our fears & reminding each other of our resources. 🌊

Core members make a deep commitment to the organization, and to each other. In Core, we refuse to turn away from each other, even when the work gets hard. We know the path to our freedom needs each of us, fully present. Will you join us in celebrating and loving on our Core members? ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Thank you to for hosting us this year, & Michael and for guiding us again. A HUGE welcome to madhvi, Elyse, Ry, and Beck who joined us this year, and a sweet goodbye to Jessica, for your brilliant tenure! 💖

📸 Image Descriptions: a series of photos of trans & q***r API people in conversation, cheering, and presenting information to each other from slides and from butcher paper notes.

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Core Committee: we love you! ✊❤️‍🔥

Our Core Committee was founded 6 years ago as a space for members and staff to lead the organization, together. With representatives from all 6 LavNix Committees, Core helps us ensure every part of LavNix is rooted in shared values and a transformative vision for the future.❣️

Last week, we gathered at our annual retreat to dive deeply into that work. We situated our current work in the context of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We located each of our roles in our campaigns for 2024. We affirmed our commitment to each other & our people, even when it’s hard, by welcoming our fears & reminding each other of our resources. 🌊

Core members make a deep commitment to the organization, and to each other. In Core, we refuse to turn away from each other, even when the work gets hard. We know the path to our freedom needs each of us, fully present, fully honest. Will you join us in celebrating and loving on our Core members? ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Thank you to for hosting us this year, & Michael and for guiding us again. A HUGE welcome to madhvi, Elyse, Ry, and Beck who joined us this year, and a sweet goodbye to Jessica, for your brilliant tenure! 💖

📸 Image Descriptions: a series of ten photos of trans & q***r API people wearing KN95 masks in conversation and presenting butcher paper notes.

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