#DeafLGBTQWeek Community Love from Traź 💜

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#DeafLGBTQWeek is almost here! Join us in uplifting and celebrating Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and HoH trans and queer communities during National Deaf LGBTQ Awareness Week! Check out the many ways to participate:
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"TMVII is a fungal infection that can spread through sexual contact, but also by sharing towels and linens or any skin-to-skin touch. Patients and experts alike are concerned about the lack of response to TMVII, given that most of its cases have presented in men who have sex with men."

"Delegates at the United Nations 70th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) overwhelmingly voted against considering a proposal by the U.S. to adopt an anti-trans definition of 'gender.'"

“With legislative sessions underway in most states, hundreds of bills restricting transgender rights are under consideration as social conservatives seek to capitalize on Trump administration tailwinds and a shift in public opinion to codify an understanding of sex and gender as binary and fixed.”

"Societal prejudice affected the deaf lesbian couple Michelle and Kathy. When the two fell in love, same-sex marriage was illegal in Ireland. Living in the UK now, they have a wonderful family with two little girls, one hearing and one deaf."

Rest in power, Jesse Jackson.

Check out this interview with the amazing Armani Lawrence by San Diego Voyager magazine. 💜 sdvoyager.com/interview/ch...

“One of the biggest unresolved questions hanging over the case is whether transgender people should be treated as a protected group under the Constitution, similar to how the law treats discrimination based on sex or race. The stakes are enormous."

"Genocide experts are sounding the alarm to warn that the U.S. is in the early stages of a larger campaign to 'literally, physically' destroy transgender people as a specific gender group."

“We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love.” --Becca Good

"Renee Nicole Good was many things — a wife, mother, poet, singer, devoted Christian, and 'extremely compassionate' human being — but she was not a 'domestic terrorist.'"

"Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the 'biggest waves of censorship' on its platforms in years."

“Hiding under the guise of national security, these supposed anti-domestic terrorism moves are more likely to be used against trans activists and immigration advocates.”

“Some queer people flee the South for more politically and socially progressive states. But others remain and commit themselves to creating a future that is welcoming and affirming of all people, especially Black queer folks who still choose to call the South home.”

"Cis white LGBTQ+ people often see their queerness as absolving them of responsibility to show up authentically for trans people and queer people of color."

We believe survivors. Today and every day. Know you are seen and deeply loved. 💜

"The memo follows Trump's January executive order denying the existence of transgender people, which banned any facility that receives federal funding from accommodating trans people based on their gender identities. This included banning trans women inmates from being housed in women's facilities."

For 30 years, DQRC has been a vital lifeline and community pillar for Deaf Queer & Trans communities. To continue the critical work we do, we need your support. Please consider making a donation today. Donate here : bit.ly/dqrcrocks We love you. #DeafQueer #InvestInYourCommunities

Did you know? When the world turned its back on the AIDS pandemic, it was primarily Lesbians that stepped up and took care of our infected Gay and Bisexual siblings. #WorldAIDSDay #LesbiansAreBaddasses #QueerHistory

Today is World AIDS Day. Please join us in taking time to pause and reflect on the importance of this day and to remember the many Deaf and signing loved ones, friends, and community members that were taken too soon from us by the AIDS pandemic. deafaids.info

Meet Landon Gonzales, a deaf, gay, Latinx, and Jewish actor and model studying Art and Media Design and ASL at Gallaudet. His new poem explores our relationship with time. Thank you for your beautiful work, Landon. 💜

Keep resisting. 💜

"In a victory for trans youth and their families, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) from accessing private medical records of kids who sought gender-affirming care at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)."

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"The movement that began as a vigil on a cold Nov night must now become a worldwide uprising of memory that rejects colonial limits and imagines a liberated future where every trans person is honored in life, not only in loss. Because solidarity that stops at borders is not solidarity at all."

"The Texas A&M University System has banned professors from discussing 'race or gender ideology' in classrooms as part of the state's ongoing crackdown on free speech in higher education."

Did you know?⠀ ⠀ The ASL sign for ‘transgender’ is similar to the ASL sign for ‘beautiful’ but is signed on the middle of the chest. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Illustration by Carlisle Robinson (@carodoodles.bsky.social), a talented Deaf trans artist based in Canada. 💜🏳️‍⚧️🤟🏽

Zee, a Deaf AfroAsian transgender youth shares his coming out story. 💜🏳️‍⚧️🤟🏽

Happy Trans Awareness Week!⠀ We love you. 💜🤟🏽🏳️‍⚧️