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  • Now I know I belong, and I know you do too 💜 August 12, 2024Now I know I belong, and I know you do too 💜
    Reflecting On Our “Care Not Cops” Campaign This spring, LavNix launched a new budget advocacy campaign: Care Not Cops! We organized actions, petitioned elected officials, & led public education in the city of San Francisco to demand the redirection of $400M ...
  • I’m learning to fight with all of me. April 23, 2024I’m learning to fight with all of me.
    I sat at a small desk in my parent’s home in Phoenix, Arizona. Cool desert air floated in through the window, and rays of the midday sunlight peeked through the tree branches. Yuan’s and eri’s kind faces gazed back at ...
  • Building a community rooted in compassion and curiosity. February 24, 2024Building a community rooted in compassion and curiosity.
    .stk-9a8b67c .stk-button{background:#5e5ee7 !important}.stk-9a8b67c .stk-button{border-radius:0px !important}.stk-9a8b67c .stk-button:before{box-shadow:none !important}.stk-9a8b67c .stk-button__inner-text{font-weight:bold !important;font-family:"Poppins",Sans-serif !important} Apply to the Summer Organizer Program today! I joined the Summer Organizer Program in 2016 when I knew very little about organizing and even less about Lavender Phoenix. I was placed at ...
  • 2024 Summer Organizer Program – Apply by 2/28! February 1, 20242024 Summer Organizer Program – Apply by 2/28!
    Do you want to work with trans, non-binary, and queer Asian and Pasifika communities?Do you have a commitment to social justice, liberation, and collective transformation?Are you ready to learn concrete organizing skills and build movements for change? The APPLICATION for Lavender ...
  • Lavender Phoenix’s 2023 In-Review January 11, 2024Lavender Phoenix’s 2023 In-Review
    “When your hope shrinksyou might feel the hopeof someone far away lifting you up.” Naomi Shihab NyePalestinian American Poet Dear beloved community, We began last year by grieving the shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay. Now, less than a year later, ...
  • Rise Up: Building Foundations for Lavender Phoenix Membership – Apply by Wednesday, 8/9!  July 12, 2023Rise Up: Building Foundations for Lavender Phoenix Membership – Apply by Wednesday, 8/9! 
    Do you want to organize with trans, non-binary, and queer Asian and Pasifika communities? Are you committed to social justice, liberation, and collective transformation? Are you ready to learn concrete organizing skills and build movements for change? The APPLICATION for Lavender Phoenix’s Inaugural ...
  • how we win is with a love ethic. June 1, 2023how we win is with a love ethic.
    Hey there, Lavender Phoenix Community! 🌈 My name is bisma/phul; I’m LavNix’s Cultural Strategy Organizer, and writer of many newsletters that you may have received since June 2022.  I am coming to you live—soaking the warm sun while sitting on my ...
  • Introducing: 2023 Rise Up May 25, 2023Introducing: 2023 Rise Up
    We have an exciting announcement! In June 2023, we will temporarily pause accepting new members into our membership, as we prepare to welcome our first-ever cohort of new members. As our base, power, and responsibility grows, we need time to ...
  • From hopelessness to revolutionary optimism. February 15, 2023From hopelessness to revolutionary optimism.
    .stk-9a8b67c .stk-button{background:#5e5ee7 !important}.stk-9a8b67c .stk-button{border-radius:0px !important}.stk-9a8b67c .stk-button:before{box-shadow:none !important}.stk-9a8b67c .stk-button__inner-text{font-weight:bold !important;font-family:"Poppins",Sans-serif !important} Apply Today! I want to build a world where we are safe to be our fullest selves. Where we are liberated from the shame and guilt forced upon us by oppressive systems. ...
  • 2023 Summer Organizer Program – Apply by 2/28! February 1, 20232023 Summer Organizer Program – Apply by 2/28!
    Do you want to work with trans, non-binary, and queer Asian and Pasifika communities?Do you have a commitment to social justice, liberation, and collective transformation?Are you ready to learn concrete organizing skills and build movements for change? The APPLICATION for Lavender ...
  • What does hope make possible? December 20, 2022What does hope make possible?
    “To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.” – Rebeca Solnit, Hope in the Dark Dear Lavender Phoenix Community, My heart split open when I first learned about Jaxon. Jaxon, a young gay ...
  • Welcome LavNix’s New Leaders! November 23, 2022Welcome LavNix’s New Leaders!
    Dear Lavender Phoenix Community, I’m excited to welcome two new staff leaders to Lavender Phoenix: eri oura (they/them) and Cynthia Fong (they/them)! eri, our new Development Manager, is an experienced fundraiser, educator, and builder of trans and queer BIPOC communities. Cynthia, ...
  • Trans Love Transcends Generations: A Zine Launch November 20, 2022Trans Love Transcends Generations: A Zine Launch
    Letters to Past and Future Selves is a collaborative zine created by the Lavender Phoenix community in honor of Trans Day of Remembrance 2022; through creative submissions including collage, illustration, poetry, playlists,  and other offerings, our community sat in vulnerability to ...
  • What LavNix Does Was Impossible November 4, 2022What LavNix Does Was Impossible
    On the eve of my 18th birthday, in the starting-to-become-summer month of May of 1980, I got to sleep in the arms of my boyfriend Danny. Having spent an overnight with him, in a friends spare bedroom, making love (before ...
  • We weave stories across generations August 25, 2022We weave stories across generations
    I grew up in a traditional Hmong household that practiced under a patriarchal system with gendered roles and a religious belief of Shamanism, the belief that spirits are intertwined with our physical reality. These traditions taught me that queer Hmong ...
  • I learned the power of being honest. August 25, 2022I learned the power of being honest.
    Growing up, I could not imagine anyone accepting me for my queer and trans identities. I viewed these parts of myself as a burden that I had to carry, something ugly and unlovable. Believing that I could never show my ...
  • 2022 LEX: Virtual Letters to the Future August 24, 2022
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/amY5PhvtxU8 Transcript Iris (she/they): Hello future LEX participant!  Elyse (they/chanh): Hi there! Ishita (ze/them): Hi!  Iris (she/they): I hope you’re ready for what’s to come. I can promise you it’s going to be amazing.  Elyse (they/chanh): Entering the space that has been so carefully and tenderly ...
  • Don’t make things harder for yourself. June 20, 2022Don’t make things harder for yourself.
    These were the words my mother responded with after I came out to her on a sunny day in our backyard. At the tender age of 19, I felt emboldened to be honest with my family, but hearing her words ...
  • Welcome LavNix’s New Cultural Strategy Organizer! June 13, 2022Welcome LavNix’s New Cultural Strategy Organizer!
    Dear Lavender Phoenix Community, We have exciting news: Bisma Farzansyed (they/them) has joined Lavender Phoenix as our Cultural Strategy Organizer! Bisma is an experienced organizer, a budding herbalist, and a medicine-maker. They’ve organized powerful digital campaigns and created heart-centered spaces for ...
  • Lavender Phoenix: Our New Name April 27, 2022Lavender Phoenix: Our New Name
    I’m excited and proud to announce that we are changing our name. From today onwards, we will be known as Lavender Phoenix.