Reflect Collective

Jess, a fellow QTPOC survivor, deserves to feel at home in their body and community can make that possible! 💛 We’re coming together to support their access to gender-affirming care and top surgery, a life-changing step toward comfort, safety, and authenticity. During the current times we’re living in where trans healthcare is being threatened, it is vital showing up for our trans community with the care and support they deserve. If you’re able, please give what you can. Every contribution matters! And if you can’t donate right now, sharing this post is powerful support too. 🔗 Donate at tinyurl.com/JessTopSurgery Let’s show up for Jess with love, care, and action. ✨ #TransJoy #GenderAffirmingCare #TopSurgery #TransCareIsHealthcare #SupportTransLives

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to our South Florida trans community! A big thank you to @browarddsa for inviting Reflect to table at their TDOV mutual aid event and share crucial resources. Trans people are beautiful, powerful, and we here to stay, no matter what. 💕 #tdov #trans #transdayofvisibility🏳️‍⚧️ #transgender

Join us Saturday 3/28 1:30-5:30pm at @ahfsouth 700 SE 3rd Ave. Ft. Lauderdale to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ We’ll have free clothes, snacks, and lots of fun activities like zine making and an arm wrestling competition! Feel free to bring any clothes, accessories, gender affirming items, books, plants, or crafting supplies you’d like to share! We’re so excited to be joined by @tutifruti.fl @reflectco_ @sunserveftl and @goto.panamia.club ! Masks will be required and provided while inside the community room, and we’ll have an air purifier running! 😷 Please share and help us spread the word! 🗣️

An update from Ame 💕 #restorativejustice #transformativejustice #survivorcentered #abolitionprinciples #anticarceral

GOOD NEWS! 💜 Jade and Angel have officially secured stable housing and will be moving in soon! What started as an emergency situation has turned into a powerful example of what collective care can look like when people show up for each other. To everyone who donated, shared, checked in, and amplified this effort: THANK YOU! This was truly a collective effort. Your support helped make it possible for two QTPOC survivors to move toward safety, stability, and a new chapter. Housing is safety. Housing is stability. And for many trans women (especially Black and brown trans women) accessing that stability is often made harder by discrimination, housing insecurity, and barriers within systems that are supposed to provide support. Moments like this are a reminder that community care and mutual aid are life-saving. As they prepare to move in, we’re hoping the community can help again with a few remaining needs. We are currently looking for gender-affirming clothes for trans women, such as: • Dresses, skirts, tops • Casual everyday outfits • Shoes and accessories They are a size S–M in clothing. Clean and gently used items are welcome. We are also looking for basic furniture/home essentials such as: • Mattress or bed frame • Small couch or chairs • Dresser or storage • Kitchen supplies • Lamps or small tables If you’re able to donate items, please send us a message so we can coordinate pickup or drop-off! If you’re not able to donate, sharing this post helps connect us with people who might be able to help. This community is powerful. Let’s continuing to show up for each other. Mutual aid forever. 💜 #mutualaid #thankyou #qtpoc #survivor #housing

We wanted to share that Amé is safe and housed. Thank you deeply to everyone who contributed to his fundraiser! Your support made this possible. Amé will be sharing a video update soon. He had planned to post earlier but recently lost his voice due to illness. As soon as he’s fully recovered, he’ll speak more about his progress, important updates, and a new series we’re planning. To reiterate: our previous post was a survival post. It was not intended to expose or “cancel” anyone. Everyone is on their own journey, and we are not advocating for anyone’s removal from community as community is essential for survival. At the same time, community does not mean the absence of boundaries. Boundaries are an essential part of safety and healing. As we navigate what justice looks like in a world shaped by injustice, we ask for compassion, patience, and care for one another. We are learning in real time how to build healthier ways of relating, ones that move us toward a more grounded and accountable world, rooted in care and free from violence.

Reflect is sharing this with care, transparency, and accountability. Our Executive Director, Ame, is leaving an abusive relationship and taking necessary steps to prioritize safety, healing, and integrity. This includes difficult boundary-setting and structural changes within the organization. Ame’s former partner, who was also part of Reflect’s board, stepped down from Reflect because she is not currently in a place to safely support other survivors. Her struggles are connected to her own trauma, and Reflect wishes her no harm-only peace and the hope that she will choose to do better one day. At the same time, accountability requires consequence (not to be confused with punishment). Survivors are allowed to leave harm, and no one is entitled to someone staying after causing it, or to continue leading organizations while they are still causing harm, even if they are a survivor themselves. At this moment, Ame is facing immediate financial hardship due to unexpected costs related to a towed U-Haul, housing instability over the past several weeks, and emergency storage needs while transitioning to safety. Reflect is turning to community support because mutual aid and reciprocity are core to our values. This is how we break cycles of abuse: by supporting one another without enabling harm. Ame has given so much to our community-it is our turn to return that care. We ask that no one harass or punish anyone involved. Each person’s healing journey is their own and deserves respect. Supporting Reflect right now looks like supporting Ame’s safety, stability, and ability to rebuild, while also not enabling further harm. Thank you for standing with us during this difficult moment, for sharing this post, and for offering support in any way you can. P.S. This situation is the reason we have not yet been able to proceed with the hiring process. Once Ame is stable again, we will continue.

Put your hands together 👏🏽for our guests of honor: @angel.s0okunt and @j.divaaaaa We are proud to kick off 2026 with our first fundraiser of the year 💿 100% of ticket sale profits 💰will go towards helping them with housing so that they may continue being artists, performers, and leaders in Miami’s queer scene. When our community needs support, we show up—loud, proud, and full of love.💗 💰How you can donate: 📀Tier 1: Rawr XD $25 📀Tier 2: GAYEYEYEYEY $50 📀Tier 3: The Bomb Diggidy $100 📀Tier 4: Twinenem $200 💾Support by coming to the show! 🎟 TICKETS: Link in bio $10 Early Bird • $15 Regular • $20 Door 📟WHEN: Friday, January 30th 🔸 Vendor Market: 9 PM 🔸 Showtime: 10 PM 📍 WHERE: @littlebohemiamiami — our home for art, queer expression, and Miami creativity. 🎭 COSTUME CONTEST! Bring your Y2K best: ✨ Bedazzled denim ✨ Rhinestone glam ✨ Futuristic silver ✨ Pop-princess fantasy ✨ Cyber retro chic Runway. Fierce looks. Prizes. 🏆 💽Support by entering the RAFFLE! We have many prizes planned for you all! It’s a win win! ⭐️ RAFFLE SPONSORS WANTED ⭐️ 🔸 DM @sarita.bonbon to donate. 🌟 VENDORS WANTED: Support local + queer makers 🔸 $35 to reserve until 1/25 ($45 week of show) 🔸 DM @sarita.bonbon to register. ✨ HELP US SPREAD THE LOVE 💕 If you can’t attend, you can still support! SAVE this post to boost visibility & SHARE it with your community to help Angel & Jade reach more hearts. Every save and share truly helps amplify their support. 🤍🌈 Let’s keep Miami weird, queer, nostalgic, and fabulous. Come party the Y2GAY way. 💿✨🌈 #miamievents #miamiburlesque #miamidrag #miamiartists #burlesqueshow #dragshow #artislife

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If you care about QTPOC youth and want to be part of real, lasting change, this is for you. Joining our org means: 
🤝 Community & connection
🌱 Leadership development
🧠 Skill-building + mentorship
🌈 A growing network rooted in care and liberation We’re seeking folks who are: 
• Committed to QTPOC youth
• Reliable, collaborative, and values-driven
• Ready to learn, lead, and grow together ⏰ Deadline: Jan 18 
🔗 Apply here: tinyurl.com/ReflectRoles26 Link in bio #QTPOC #SouthFlorida #BoardHiring #Youth

A huge thank you to @peteandthomasfdn and @theestallion for supporting our next Survivor Wellness Program through the Hotties Helping Grant. This support allows us to expand survivor-centered, trauma-informed wellness offerings and continue building spaces rooted in care, dignity, and healing. We’re grateful to be resourced by a funder that believes in community-led work. Funding like this is crucial to keeping our programs free, accessible, and trauma-informed, and we’re looking forward to what this will make possible. #HottiesHelping #QTPOC #SurvivorWellness #CommunityCare

✨ WE’RE HIRING! ✨ Reflect Collective is expanding our team! We’re a community-based organization creating accessible, trauma-informed, and liberatory spaces for queer and trans people of color (QTPOC) who are survivors of sexual and domestic violence through mutual aid, healing spaces, and education. We’re currently accepting applications for the following roles: 🧭 Board (Volunteer, with optional stipend) • Organizational Co-Director 💼 Paid Staff Positions (Part-Time | $25 per hour | $10,000 annually) • Outreach Coordinator • Survivor Wellness Advocate • Youth Educator • Organizational Sustainability Director (shared-leadership role similar to ED) We strongly encourage applications from QTPOC, survivors, youth, and folks from communities historically excluded from leadership. No “perfect resume” required. We value lived experience, care, and commitment to community. 📍 Must be based in South Florida 💻 Remote + in-person events ⏰Deadline to apply: Jan 18 at 11:59 PM 👉 Apply via the link in our bio 📩 Questions? Email [email protected] Please share with someone who should see this! #Hiring #southfloridajobs #CommunityCare #QTPOC #SurvivorLed

Fundraising doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Policies have real-life consequences, and those impacts are felt most by marginalized communities, including ours. This chart shows Reflect’s annual fundraising alongside major national events that shaped the nonprofit and equity funding landscape: -2020: COVID-19 disrupted fundraising across the nation. -2025: A wave of anti-DEI legislation coincided with a sharp decline in funding for equity-centered work. While many factors influence fundraising, this timeline highlights how broader systems, crises, and policies intersect with the sustainability of community-rooted organizations led by the most marginalized (QTPOC, youth, and disabled communities) like Reflect. Despite 2025’s funding setbacks, Reflect achieved significant community impact and programmatic growth. This year demonstrates both the vulnerability of QTPOC-, disabled-, and youth-led organizations to structural pressures and the strength of the work we continue to do, even in the face of systemic oppression. We are proof that our community is resilient, even when systems fail us. Interested in supporting our work? Donate at tinyurl.com/Reflect2026 or go to the link in our bio. #ReflectCollective #QTPOCLeadership #YouthLedOrg #CommunityRooted #EquityInAction