Trans Week

Today, on #TransDayOfVisibility, we’re honored to share “Where I’m From” by @IAmDeOnyaeDior , a powerful voice from our Freedom School cohort. We’ve just wrapped Freedom School a multi-week workshop for trans young adults of color. Over 6 sessions, this cohort — led by @benjifemini , with special guests Prof. Kai Pyle and Dean Spade — explored what it means to decolonize gender, expand our understanding of family, and stay rooted in queer and trans liberation. This poem is part of that vision. Today, we don’t just celebrate visibility, we honor imagination, resistance, and the futures trans people are building right now. Featured art Art Piece #1 Trans People Exist in The Future by @kahyangni IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A dreamy, pastel-toned illustration features silhouetted figures in a forest—one looking through binoculars and another reaching forward on the ground. Swirling lines, stars, and clouds surround large, playful lettering that reads: “Trans people exist in the future.” The scene feels imaginative and hopeful, with soft purples, pinks, and warm sunset hues. Art Piece #2 Imagine love-filled, abundant, sustainable TGNC futures by @micahbazant IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A vibrant, illustrated scene shows a group of BIPOC smiling at the top and a couple embracing at the bottom, connected by a glowing tree with keys hanging from its branches. A cityscape fades into a starry night sky. In the center, handwritten text reads: “Imagine love-filled, abundant, sustainable TGNC futures.” The artwork blends themes of community, love, and possibility with bold blues, greens, and golds. Art Piece #3 Trans Power by Rommy- Sobrado Torrico @rommyyy123 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A powerful central figure stands with one fist raised, wearing a white dress and wings, holding flowers overhead. Behind them is a radiant halo-like glow, and below is a city skyline labeled with words like “violence,” “abuse,” and “fear.” Surrounding the figure are affirming words such as “resistance,” “community,” “strength,” and “liberation.” Banners read “Trans Power” and “Trans is Beautiful,” emphasizing resilience, honor, and celebration

Today we close Trans Week of Visibility and Action the way we intend to live. In beauty, in joy, and in the full knowledge that our art and the youth will carry us forward to liberation. For Daniel, who’ll tell you why joy is necessary to the fight. For Violet, age 10, who already knows exactly who she is. Trans futures are being made and protected right now. #TransDayOfVisibility #TDOV #TWOVA2026 #TransArt #GenderLiberation EveryBodyIsAWorkOfArt

On the final day of Trans Week of Visibility and Action, we close Trans Week by declaring that trans and nonbinary folks have always created beauty, even while facing the staunchest restrictions. Today, Gender Liberation Movement joins Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art—home to over 30,000 works by queer and trans artists—to elevate trans and nonbinary artists whose work reflects the full range of trans experience. In a moment when trans artwork is being censored, defunded, and pulled from walls, their vision is an act of defiance. And we close with our eyes on the future. Trans youth are carrying this lineage forward. The artists in this carousel were once young people too, making work in a world that didn’t always embrace it. That lineage remains unbroken. Every/Body Is a Work of Art. Gender Liberation is for Every/Body. Artists featured: Greer Lankton (@greer_lankton_archives_museum ). Young Joon Kwak (@youngjoonkwak ). Lorenza Böttner. Hortensia Mi Kafchin (@boscu.hortensia.mi.kafchin ). Vivek Shraya (@vivekshraya ). #TDOV #TransDayofVisibility #TWOVA #TransArt #GenderLiberationIsForEverybody - Greer Lankton, My Face (detail), 1981, Mixed media artist book, 6 1/2 x 4 x 1/2 in, Gift of James Lankton, 2019.18.1a-b, 2016.101.3 Young Joon Kwak, To Refuse Looking Away from our Trans-Temporal Bodies (Charlie), 2025, Bronze, wax pigment, steel base, 57 1/2 x 18 x 18 in, permanent collection of Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 2025.20.1a-b Adrian Jones, Lorenza 12, 1985, B&W photograph, 7 x 5 in, gift of the artist in memory of Lorenza Böttner, permanent collection of Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 2022.25.6 Installation view of Hortensia Mi Kafchin: Through Different Eyes. Photograph by Daniel Terna. © 2026 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York. Vivek Shraya, Trisha (1 of 9), 2016, Two C-prints on foamcore, 16 x 24 in, Gift of John Chaich in honor of Vivek Shraya, permanent collection of Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 2019.18.1a-b

Five fathers in conversation about fatherhood, reproductive justice, Black affirming families, what trans healthcare actually is, and what liberatory masculinity looks like when it’s lived rather than theorized. This roundtable is part of Trans Week of Visibility and Action 2026-GLM’s annual week of programming making one sustained argument: Gender Liberation is for Every/Body. Watch the full dialogue via link in bio. #TWOVA #LiberatoryMasculinities #GenderLiberation

Every/Body Destroys Binaries The Right is weaponizing an outdated masculinity, but a freer, truer one already exists. It’s long overdue for us to tap into liberatory masculinities. Despite the Right recruiting men into a politics of resentment and calling it strength, most Americans (yes, across party lines) say men who are caring, emotionally open, and affectionate are not valued enough. The generation the Right is trying hardest to recruit is already pulling away from the model they’re selling. Men of color, queer and trans people, and trans and affirming fathers have been building the alternative for decades. Swipe to see our argument and the data. #TWOVA #LiberatoryMasculinities #GenderLiberationIsForEverybody #TransFathers #GenderLiberation

The attacks on gender-affirming care and reproductive rights are not separate fights.

The intersex liberation movement turns 30 this year. It was born in part because trans activists showed up before most institutions had language for either fight. That solidarity has been deliberately fractured and both movements have been paying for it ever since. Five trans, intersex leaders—Sean Saifa Wall, Hans Lindahl, King Mariah Ayscue, Nessa Calvin, and Ly Baumgardt—name the history of nonconsensual surgeries on intersex infants, the Right-wing theft of intersex language to weaponize against trans youth, and what it will take to rebuild the alliance that was always supposed to exist. Hosted by Raquel Willis, co-founder of the Gender Liberation Movement. This roundtable is part of Trans Week of Visibility and Action 2026—GLM’s annual week of programming making one sustained argument: Gender Liberation is for Every/Body. Video Editor: Pea Nunez Original Music: Wazi Maret Watch the full dialogue on YouTube via link in bio. #IntersexLiberation #TWOVA #GenderLiberation

ICE doesn’t run on cruelty alone. It runs on contracts. GEO Group. CoreCivic. Palantir. Amazon. Microsoft. And this year, Congress approved $45 billion for ICE. Of the 38 people who died in ICE custody since January 2025, 71% were held in for-profit facilities. ICE’s detained population has grown 70% since Trump took office—and the corporations behind it are posting record profits. Trans migrants have been fighting this machine for decades. The erasure—and the money trail—are intentional. Swipe to follow it. Then sign the petition to cut ICE and CBP funding—below and via link in bio. /letters/urge-congress-to-cut-ice-cbp-funding-no-business-as-usual Special thanks to leaders of @familiatqlm , @officialblmp , and @sedignitynotdetentioncoalition for research and background. #TWOVA #AbolishICE #EveryBodyDeservesFreedom

Trans migrants and first-generation folks have been leading the fight against ICE and for liberation far longer than the current moment. From interrupting President Obama at a White House Pride event to the Not One More campaign to the end trans detention movement—none of this fight is new. What is new is the scale. Five organizers, lawyers, and movement leaders—Sol Jiménez Palacios, Oluchi Omeoga, Tiara Gendi, Mich Gonzalez, and Yuan Wang—get real about the history of trans migrant organizing, who profits from detention, what the system actually does to trans people on the inside, and what it will take to build the coalition that gets us all free. Full video on YouTube. Link in bio. #TWOVA #EndTransDetention #AbolishICE

Trans migrants and first-generation folks have been leading the fight against ICE for decades. Any fight that excludes trans migrant liberation is ignoring history. Immigration detention didn’t start with ICE. It didn’t start with Trump. The infrastructure goes back to the 1950s. By the time ICE was formed in 2003, trans migrants were already being sexually assaulted, denied medical care, and thrown into solitary confinement inside it. Queer and trans API people organized in response to Christian radicalism in the 2000s. TransLatinx organizers have been drawing attention to the long arc of mass deportation from President Obama to the current Trump term. Black LGBTQIA+ migrants have demanded their space inbetween movements erasing them. These efforts did not produce the mass abolition calls they should have. Today we’re naming the history that gets erased—and the organizers who laid the foundation for the defiance we’re seeing in this era. Swipe. Learn the lineage. Then stay for what comes next. #TWOVA #TransMigrantJustice #AbolishICE #EndTransDetention #Not1More

The attack on trans and nonbinary youth is an attack on every family that refuses to sacrifice its child to ideology. On every parent who looked at their kid and chose them anyway. On every household that said: not in this house, not on my watch, not ever. But affirming families are not victims. They are organizers. They are builders. They are people who figured out, often without a roadmap, how to love expansively in a world that keeps telling them not to. This week, we’re in conversation with affirming mothers, aunties, and the people building community for families who have nowhere else to turn. Watch the roundtable. Link in bio. #TWOVA

What does it actually mean to affirm your child when the laws, the schools, and the medical system are working against you? Four leaders—affirming mothers and aunties from diverse communities—get honest about visibility, sacrifice, community, and what it takes to love expansively in a hostile era. Featuring Jodie Patterson, Lizette Trujillo, Sonia Murphy, and Rebecca Minor. Hosted by Raquel Willis, co-founder of the Gender Liberation Movement. This roundtable is part of Trans Week of Visibility and Action 2026–GLM’s annual week of programming making one sustained argument: Gender Liberation is for Every/Body. Link in bio! #TWOVA