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  • Building a community rooted in compassion and curiosity.Building 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!2024 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-ReviewLavender 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! Rise 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.how 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 UpIntroducing: 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.From 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!2023 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?What 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!Welcome 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 LaunchTrans 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 ImpossibleWhat 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 generationsWe 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.I 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
    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.Don’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!Welcome 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 NameLavender 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.
  • What is Healing Justice?What is Healing Justice?
    “What is healing?” is the question I have been asking APIENC’s Core Committee ever since we established Healing Justice as a key pillar of our new Theory of Change. In our movements, healing is all the buzz, yet what does ...
  • At APIENC, I learned to lead with love.At APIENC, I learned to lead with love.
    Dear APIENC Community, I started organizing around my identity as a queer kānaka maoli from a place of great anger. I was angry that my lāhui lived in such dire poverty in our own homeland. I was angry that the university ...