TJFP volunteer Rebecca Wisotsky chatted over the phone with our 2014 grantees to learn more about what their year has been like organizing their communities, providing public education and services, and working towards trans justice. Our grantees generously took the time to share their stories, including their success and challenges. Come meet some of our incredibly […]

TJFP is honored to have former grantee, Ruby Corado join this year’s grant making panel. Ruby was born in San Salvador, El Salvador. She fled a civil war when she was 16 years old. Now 45 years old, she has lived in Washington, D.C. for the past 30 years where She has devoted the last […]

TJFP is sending love and condolences to the family, friends and community of Blake Brockington.  Blake was active in cultural change work, direct action and doing so much for his community. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Friends and community members are today mourning the passing of a local transgender youth activist, Blake Brockington, who died as the result of suicide […]

Yesterday morning in Atlanta, GA, Trans Justice Funding Project Director Gabriel Foster and Caitlin Breedlove, Co-Director of Southerners on New Ground, co-moderated an unbelievably  POWERFUL panel, at Funders for LGBTQ Issues‘s Funding Forward. This panel, Critical Voices: Trans Justice in the South featured TJFP grantee, Dee Dee Chamble of LaGender and Juan Evans from Solutions Not Punishment […]

Things just keep on getting more exciting! On May 11th, TJFP will receive The Community Builder Award at the National Center for Transgender Equality’s 12 Anniversary Celebration.  We are so incredibly honored! Go here to find out more about the other wonderful honorees or to get your ticket!

Another fierce addition to this year’s team! Mel Goodwin is a white anti-racist, radical, feminist, vegan, genderqueer femme living with a disability. Originally from Las Vegas, Nevada, Mel moved to rural North Carolina in June 2014 to live with their partner, a black transmasculine revolutionary. They are a first year law student at North Carolina […]

A very warm welcome to our third panelist, M’Bwende Anderson! M’Bwende is obsessed with flipping experiences of poverty, sexism, racism, transphobia and heteronormativity into creative genius, community building and positive action. An organizer/activist with various non-profit, NGO and government agencies, their contributions have centered a mix of colored and queer for the past 20 years. Currently a […]

“The recent, tragic uptick in murders of trans women of color seems to be finally drawing the attention outside trans circles. Simply caring is sadly not enough, though. A Facebook status about how awful the violence is won’t actually make the world a better place. But there are real, practical actions you can take.” Read more […]

The Trans Justice Funding Project is pleased to welcome Trudie Jackson to our 2015 grant making team. Trudie Jackson, an enrolled tribal member of Navajo Nation from Teec Nos Pos, Arizona. Her Clans are Bitter Water Clan born for the Leaf Clan. The Mexican Clan are her paternal clan and Yucca Fruit-Strung-Out-In-A-Line Clan are maternal […]

TJFP is a proud community partner of #RELEASE.  Hosted by the Leeway Foundation and Bread & Roses Community Fund, RELEASE is an exhibition and program series that explores the intersection of gender justice and mass incarceration. RELEASE aims to provide shared spaces for women, transgender, and gender non-conforming survivors of the prison industrial complex, local artists, cultural […]

Six trans women of color have been murdered in 2015. Our Goddess Edwards, 20, Kentucky Lamia Beard, 30, Virginia Ty Underwood, 24, Texas Jazmin Vash Payne, 33, LA Taja Gabrielle de Jesus, 33, SF Penny Proud, 21, New Orleans Please read this statement from our 2014 Grantee, BreakOUT! as they address the recent loss of their member, […]

It’s hot off the press and waiting just for you!  The 2014 Trans Justice Funding Project report is FULL of information about our awesome grantees, a directory of trans justice groups from across the U.S., articles about trans women of color leadership and disability justice in philanthropy, a Grassroots Theory of Funding, updates on our unique structure and so […]