On International Sex Worker Rights Day, we honor sex worker leadership everywhere. The Sex Worker Giving Circle at Third Wave Fund has opened our 2026 grant cycle! Apply by April 2 for 2-year grants of $35K/year. Learn more & apply: bit.ly/swgc2026 #InternationalSexWorkerRightsDay #SWGivingCircle

For Black History / Futures Month, we're honoring Black-led organizing that doesn't just imagine liberation—it builds it. 🛠️✨Across the U.S. and Territories, our grantee partners are trailblazing bold, material futures rooted in care, autonomy, and collective power. This month, we're uplifting:

"The edges of our movements hold the deepest lessons." This @npquarterly.bsky.social piece follows Katrina Schaffer, who seeded the #DisabilityFrontlinesFund at TWF. Only 6% of disability funding goes to rights & justice. Here's how DFF is closing that gap: https://bit.pulse.ly/xr2dk1t2zd

Giving Bigger, Organizing More Boldly: Centering Disability Justice - Katrina Schaffer, @npquarterly.bsky.social nonprofitquarterly.org/giving-bigge...

While the timeline debates Bad Bunny, queer & trans organizers in Puerto Rico are building power amidst ongoing colonial violence. Meet our grantee partners centering Black & Indigenous queer/trans people through decolonial justice. ¡QUE VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE! 🇵🇷💥

We begin 2026 enraged & in grief, but recommitted. We honor lives stolen by state violence & invest in QTBIPOC leaders building revolutionary alternatives grounded in care, joy, and justice. Join us in this necessary work. ❤️🔥https://www.thirdwavefund.org/ 🎨 by Dream Defenders

We begin this year enraged, in grief, & recommitted. We envision a future where we don't drag state violence into the next year. We hold this belief to resist the despair this country manufactures.

📣 DONATION MATCH ALERT 📣 Before 2025 ends, help fortify our movements. Deepen your solidarity with a matched gift to Third Wave Fund! Thanks to an activist donor, your donation today triggers an extra $250 for gender justice organizers.

How do we sustain liberatory gender justice work? Our answer is always in our people. It will take all of us, boldly channeling resources to frontline QTBIPOC organizers. This is how we resist and build power together. 🌱

What does “deepen your solidarity” really mean? Beyond money, it’s about time, skills, and showing up publicly. Let resources flow with Third Wave Fund. Watch the full convo here: youtu.be/JOUrUPNzfQk

When you give to Third Wave Fund, you practice reciprocity. You nourish queer & trans BIPOC gender justice movements, moving us all closer to a free & joyous world. As our thanks, donate before 2026 to receive a nature-inspired sticker set! 🌱 bit.ly/donatetwf2025

We mourn Alice Wong, a disability justice pioneer. Her work uplifted QTBIPOC disabled folks & inspired our #DisabilityFrontlinesFund. We honor her legacy & commit to the future she envisioned. Read Alice’s full statement on our blog: www.thirdwavefund.org/blog/rest-in...

“Go Beyond Native ‘American’ Heritage Month. Acknowledge the Land that sustains you. Acknowledge the waters that nourish you.” – Sogorea Te’ Land Trust 💧🌊 As # NationalDayofMourning nears, we name the truth: funding freezes deliberately weaken Indigenous frontline power.

Our liberation is collective. On #TDOR and every day, we recommit to a framework of freedom that is expansive and unapologetic. Gender justice is trans liberation. We fight for a future where all trans folks become thriving elders. 🦋

This Trans Day of Remembrance, we fight for the living. We defend gender-affirming care, protect trans youth, and build communities where trans joy can flourish. We know that true safety comes from each other, not from policing or prisons. #TDOR

Today, on Trans Day of Remembrance, we honor our trans siblings—those living and those stolen from us by transphobic violence. We hold their memories close and recommit to the fight for a world where all trans people can live long, thriving lives. 🕊️ #TDOR

Score these limited-edition stickers by Chi Nwosu, CozCon & @monicatrinidad.bsky.social🌟 Become a new monthly donor or double your gift to fuel QTBIPOC-led movements. Every bit helps! No funds to give? You can still help make waves: 🔁 Share this post to spread the word! bit.ly/donatetwf2025

🌊 Resistance is only natural! We’re channeling $3.7M+ to QTBIPOC-led movements in 2025. Become a new monthly donor & receive a set of gorgeous stickers by #ArtistinResidence Chi Nwosu! Let resources flow to sustain the fight for gender justice: bit.ly/donatetwf2025

Thrilled to introduce Chi Nwosu, our inaugural #ArtistinResidence! Chi (them/they) is a Black, nonbinary, queer Nigerian artist whose work invites us to imagine collective liberation, shaped by kinship & histories of international resistance. Read the full Q&A: www.thirdwavefund.org/blog/meet-ou...

Catch Third Wave Fund this fall at one of these gatherings! 📢 🎨 Grantmakers in the Arts in St. Paul, MN | Oct 19-22, 2025 Featured Session: Past, Present, Possibility: Investing in Trans and Queer Cultural Power on Monday, Oct 20 that will include our very own Co-Executive Director Morgan Willis

“The state is the enemy of Indigenous peoples... Our freedom lies not in appealing to the state for recognition or rights, but in building our own power outside of it,” — Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. True solidarity demands resourcing Indigenous freedom daily.

Check out our very own Carlton V Bell II (“C.J”) in their interview with #BoldJourneyMagazine on discussing the critical work of the Sex Worker Giving Circle & building the ecosystems where Black queer Southern artists can thrive.

Read this letter from Third Wave Fund’s Co-Executive Director, MARS. Beard, and lock in with us for the long haul. Whether you are a funder, individual with wealth, or a working class organizer – there is a critical role for you in this movement. A thread 🧵 www.thirdwavefund.org/blog/locked-...

Rest In Power, Assata Shakur.

✨🌈 Big news! Please help us welcome two incredible new staff members to Third Wave Fund! We're thrilled to introduce Bianca Alston (she/her) as our Director of Programs and Kelly Ortiz (she/they) as our Communications Officer of Digital Engagement.

Artist is always looking for a new volunteers to help us out. Sex workers and strippers only please. Or people who used to work in industry please DM us if you’re interested.

Happy Belated Sex Worker Pride Day! 🌹 Today we’re celebrating our brilliant SWGC 2025 Advisory Board! Our Advisors play a huge role in powering the Sex Worker Giving Circle! Here’s what SW pride means to them 🎥 We’re beyond proud to be guided by their brilliance & unapologetic power.

In the age of anti-intellectualism, we're committing to reading. We are committed to getting together with other Black feminists in our community and bonding over the love of knowledge and shared space. How very Waiting to Exhale of us.

We are excited to announce that we have 2 #SWer #supportgroups this month with new facilitators zara and Tania! Please email [email protected] to register. swoplosangeles.org/calendar/ for more info.

The FINAL #MobilizePowerFund deadline of the year is 10.7.25! MPF provides rapid response funding for: • Urgent direct action • Community mobilizing • Healing justice work Open to youth-led/intergenerational groups across the U.S. (No 501c3 required!) www.thirdwavefund.org/mobilize-pow...

Our team is taking a quiet week (8/25-8/28) to rest & recharge before the busy season. We'll pause communications and return 9/2 after our Friday + Labor Day break. Thanks for your patience as we reflect & realign during this time.

“It’s often the case that imprisoned communities are meant to be invisible, and essentially cut off from non-imprisoned communities, especially communities of struggle." – Rachel Herzing, organizer, activist, & co-author of How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment

#BlackAugust, rooted in abolition, commemorates fallen freedom fighters & commits to disciplined liberation struggle. Its principles remain: "Study. Fast. Train. Fight." We honor decades of Black women, queer, & trans people's organizing in building radical political movements that free us all.

ICYMI–check out “Unbought, Unbossed, and Unbowed: Sex Worker-Led Organizing in the Age of Respectability Politics,” a new blog from Carlton V Bell II ("C.J"), the Program Associate of our Sex Worker Giving Circle, published in @ncrpcommunity.bsky.social ncrp.org/2025/06/sex-...

The #MobilizePowerFund remains OPEN through July! Next deadline: August 5, 2025. MPF provides rapid response funding for: • Urgent direct action • Community mobilizing • Healing justice work Open to youth-led/intergenerational groups, nonprofits & coalitions across the U.S. & U.S. territories

Episode 7 of our podcast, Justice Ain’t Cheap, is a special one, recorded live from Funding Forward 2025. Listen to our powerful conversation with philanthropic leaders Bilal Alkatout from @headwatersfdn.bsky.social and MARS. Marshall, from @thirdwavefund.bsky.social 🎙️ Listen here: l.ead.me/JAC_ep7

Octavia Butler’s wisdom guided us in 2024: “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” In a year of transformation, Third Wave Fund redistributed $3.27M to 111 partners. Explore our full 2024 Year in Review ⬇️ thirdwavefund.org/2024