Help TJFP Raise $15,000 by April 23rd! From the Ground to the Sky: TJFP’s April Fundraising Campaign As the Trans Justice Funding Project (TJFP) enters its third grant cycle, we’re more determined then ever to continue supporting trans-led, grassroots, trans justice groups and organizations. In February, we received a remarkable 144 applications. That’s 37% more applications […]
Completing the 2015 TJFP all-star grant making team is.. long time TJFP volunteer, Marin Watts! Marin is a queer trans Filipino-American videographer, artist, and media educator living and working in East Harlem, NY. Culturally rooted in the American South, with family ties to the Philippines, he uses video, photography, and textiles to explore the intersections of […]
In honor of Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31st, here are 10 ways to show your support for the trans community. Thanks for the shout out Buzzfeed! Please consider making a donation for the Trans Justice Funding Project’s 2015 funding cycle today?
Running simultaneously with Incite’s Color of Violence 4 (COV4) conference, the National Trans & Gender Non-Conforming Anti-Violence gathering brought together nearly 100 participants from 22 states. Coordinated by the Transgender Law Center, we met for two days in Chicago to do collective healing work, address violence in our communities, share resources, and strategize, strategize, strategize! Amongst the many, many things shared […]
TJFP is honored to have former grantee, Ruby Corado join this year’s grant making panel. Ruby was born in San Salvador, El Salvador. She fled a civil war when she was 16 years old. Now 45 years old, she has lived in Washington, D.C. for the past 30 years where She has devoted the last […]
TJFP is sending love and condolences to the family, friends and community of Blake Brockington. Blake was active in cultural change work, direct action and doing so much for his community. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Friends and community members are today mourning the passing of a local transgender youth activist, Blake Brockington, who died as the result of suicide […]
Yesterday morning in Atlanta, GA, Trans Justice Funding Project Director Gabriel Foster and Caitlin Breedlove, Co-Director of Southerners on New Ground, co-moderated an unbelievably POWERFUL panel, at Funders for LGBTQ Issues‘s Funding Forward. This panel, Critical Voices: Trans Justice in the South featured TJFP grantee, Dee Dee Chamble of LaGender and Juan Evans from Solutions Not Punishment […]
Things just keep on getting more exciting! On May 11th, TJFP will receive The Community Builder Award at the National Center for Transgender Equality’s 12 Anniversary Celebration. We are so incredibly honored! Go here to find out more about the other wonderful honorees or to get your ticket!
Another fierce addition to this year’s team! Mel Goodwin is a white anti-racist, radical, feminist, vegan, genderqueer femme living with a disability. Originally from Las Vegas, Nevada, Mel moved to rural North Carolina in June 2014 to live with their partner, a black transmasculine revolutionary. They are a first year law student at North Carolina […]
A very warm welcome to our third panelist, M’Bwende Anderson! M’Bwende is obsessed with flipping experiences of poverty, sexism, racism, transphobia and heteronormativity into creative genius, community building and positive action. An organizer/activist with various non-profit, NGO and government agencies, their contributions have centered a mix of colored and queer for the past 20 years. Currently a […]
“The recent, tragic uptick in murders of trans women of color seems to be finally drawing the attention outside trans circles. Simply caring is sadly not enough, though. A Facebook status about how awful the violence is won’t actually make the world a better place. But there are real, practical actions you can take.” Read more […]
The Trans Justice Funding Project is pleased to welcome Trudie Jackson to our 2015 grant making team. Trudie Jackson, an enrolled tribal member of Navajo Nation from Teec Nos Pos, Arizona. Her Clans are Bitter Water Clan born for the Leaf Clan. The Mexican Clan are her paternal clan and Yucca Fruit-Strung-Out-In-A-Line Clan are maternal […]