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ATTENTION ALLIES - Want to learn the best ways to make sure your trans loved ones feel supported during the holidays? Join our webinar tomorrow with Evey Winters for Day Five of “Peace, Love, & Trans Joy: A Virtual Home for the Holidays”!
Allies and folks with trans loved ones are highly encouraged to attend our discussion at 7pm EST to learn how they can best support their trans family members during this holiday season (and always). Register here: bit.ly/TEPholidaysupport
We want to give our community a space to come together safely and frequently for the holidays. Despite the hurt we have individually and collectively felt this year, we can be your home this season.
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Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966 after having been created by professor of Africana studies, activist, and author Maulana Karenga to help give identity, purpose, and direction to African Americans.
Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa (between December 26 and January 1) correspond to the Nguzo Saba (the Seven Principles):
Umoja - Unity - To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
Kujichagulia - Self-Determination - To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves.
Ujima - Collective Work and Responsibility - To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems and to solve them together.
Ujamaa - Cooperative economics - To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Nia - Purpose - To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Kuumba - Creativity - To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
Imani - Faith - To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Happy Kwanzaa to those who celebrate it. While it does not receive the same visibility or acknowledgement as other end-of-year holidays, it is important to include those who observe these seven days!
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Today is DAY FOUR of our six-day series “Peace, Love, & Trans Joy: Virtual Home for the Holidays” – GAME DAY! In addition to our Zoom events (you can register at bit.ly/TEPgameday), check out our Bingo card, open through Friday 11:59pm EST!
You can find the links for every square here: bit.ly/TEPbingolinks. When you get BINGO, send us a DM with your completed card and find out about your prize!
Thank you to all our supporters, to all who participate in our BINGO challenge, and to everyone who has enjoyed our Peace, Love, & Trans Joy events!
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Want to meet some of your community members? Join our second of six days of community fun and connection! Tomorrow, Day Two of “Peace, Love, & Trans Joy: A Virtual Home for the Holidays,” is our game day!
Join us for a day of games and prizes. At 1 pm EST, we have a scavenger hunt! At 4 pm EST, we’ll be playing bingo. And we’ll be doing trivia night starting at 7 pm EST. Register for just one or all three here: bit.ly/TEPgameday
We want to give our community a space to come together safely and frequently for the holidays. Despite the hurt we have individually and collectively felt this year, we can be your home this season.
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We are in the midst of the holiday season! Thanks to the generosity of some talented artists, you can send love and support to someone who might need some extra joy this holiday season: bit.ly/TEP-ecard
By making a donation of $3 or more, you can pick your favorite design and send a personalized e-card to the person of your choosing! Not only will your gift ensure that your loved ones know you were thinking of them, it will help us continue to provide vital resources to trans people in crisis, particularly QTPOC.
All of the artwork featured was created and donated by trans artists, and we have given them a shoutout on our social media!
Being isolated from each other feels especially tough during the holidays. Send your loved ones an e-card so that they can feel your love and support from afar! Choose your e-card here: bit.ly/TEP-ecard
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Want to meet some of your community members? Join our second of six days of community fun and connection! Tomorrow, Day Two of “Peace, Love, & Trans Joy: A Virtual Home for the Holidays,” is our holiday mixer!
For get-to-know-you activities and break out rooms, register here for the Zoom event at 6pm EST tomorrow night: bit.ly/TEPholidaymixer
We want to give our community a space to come together safely and frequently for the holidays. Despite the hurt we have individually and collectively felt this year, we can be your home this season.
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Sending peace, love, and light to those who celebrate Kwanzaa!
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The holiday season can be uncomfortable for many queer and trans folks. But we do not have an obligation to continue familial and community traditions that are not good for us.
We can make new traditions. We can adapt old traditions to our needs and our evolving selves. We can come together and find joy amongst ourselves, in person or virtually.
Where do you find affirmation during the holidays, for any and all parts of yourself? What traditions (new or old) bring you joy? Share in the comments – share in each others’ joy.
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Whether you are feeling holiday cheer or not, we invite you to participate in our six days of community fun and connection! DAY ONE of “Peace, Love, & Trans Joy: A Virtual Home for the Holidays” is tomorrow with Mystery Holiday Theater 3000!
Join us as we watch the holiday classic "Scrooged” and help us roast the heck out of it! Register here for the Zoom event at 5pm EST tomorrow night: bit.ly/MHT3000
We want to give our community a space to come together safely and frequently for the holidays. Despite the hurt we have individually and collectively felt this year, we can be your home this season.
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A big THANK YOU to everyone who joined us over the past six days for community fun and connection in our event series “Peace, Love, & Trans Joy: A Virtual Home for the Holidays.”
Our goal for the events – from movie nights to BINGO to a holiday mixer – was to provide a space for those who were not with their loved ones this holiday season. To everyone who joined us for one or all of the events: THANK YOU. If you have feedback or ideas that you want to see from us – anything to make you feel more at home with your community – let us know!
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Our holiday e-card fundraiser closes TOMORROW NIGHT! If you have not had a chance to look at the art donated by some wonderful trans artists, make sure you do so before 11:59pm EST tonight!
This fundraiser not only helped our supporters share some much-needed holiday cheer with their loved ones, but also helped us raise funds for our direct aid program – providing vital resources to trans people in crisis, especially QTPOC. You can support our efforts through this e-card fundraiser through tonight here: bit.ly/TEP-ecard!
Thank you again to all the artists who donated their time and work to our organization, and to everyone who has sent a card to their loved ones through us. Happy holidays, and happy New Year!
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As we close out the year, we are also coming to the end of our six days of community fun and connection! Tomorrow is Day Six of “Peace, Love, & Trans Joy: A Virtual Home for the Holidays,” and we are closing it out with a movie night and New Year’s Celebration!
Join us to watch a movie and discuss the highs and lows of 2020 and what is on the horizon for 2021, starting at 6pm EST. Register here: bit.ly/TEPnewyear
We want to give our community a space to come together safely and frequently for the holidays. Despite the hurt we have individually and collectively felt this year, we can be your home this season.
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As the holiday season and this year wind down, make sure you send some extra love and support to someone who might need some extra joy with an e-card: bit.ly/TEP-ecard
By making a donation of $3 or more, you can pick your favorite design and send a personalized e-card to the person of your choosing! Your gift will ensure your loved ones know you’re thinking of them and will help us provide vital resources to trans people in crisis.
Being isolated from each other feels especially tough during the holidays. Send your loved ones an e-card so that they can feel your love and support from afar! Choose your e-card here before tomorrow night:bit.ly/TEP-ecard
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Yesterday I was commissioned by a friend to help a four-year-old regain her Christmas spirit. She was very worried the virus would cause Christmas to be canceled. So, this elf assured her (via zoom) that at the North Pole things were as busy as ever.
