As of yesterday, our existence as trans people has been outlawed by the federal government. We saw it coming for months; we've been hearing our siblings' cries for help, needing to get out of their home state to seek safety and to assert their rights to live as their true selves.
California is among "safer states" for trans people; however, the cost of housing gets in the way. In order to keep trans refugees safe, we need to build a network of people who are willing and able to offer housing to refugees, because for many whether they get out this week or next week is a difference between life and death.
Something that I learned by trying to do this for the past year is that: 1) we, ordinary folx, need to build a network of housing in the mutual aid style, because no one is going to do it for us; 2) we need to be able to provide food and other daily necessities to people once they get here; and 3) we need to build a community of care so people have an emotional support structure.
To that end, I'm asking folx to either: 1) sign up as a volunteer to offer housing or other material support; 2) donate whatever you can; or 3) spread the word.
We need us. It is either NOW or NEVER.
We are TRANS RESCUE ACTION. Find us at transrescueaction.org
Hello friends! Please join us for the next San Fernando Valley REALLY REALLY FREE MARKET on April 11th. we will be there RAIN or SHINE ☔️
we have a very special offering from @tsukuru_nonbinary ! We will be hosting three sessions of light movement and pranayama (breathing exercises) 🌬️ at 1:30, 2:30, and 3:30pm. you can find us under the QSN canopy and we will have yoga mats to share.
Tsukuru Fors (he/they) is an agender-identified healer/cultural worker. Being a survivor of physical and emotional trauma himself, Tsukuru has been practicing yoga, pranayama, meditation, and reiki with people with body issues and challenges for a decade. Tsukuru provides donation-based classes and one-on-one sessions; thus, making healing accessible for everyone. It is his firm belief that developing “body wisdom” enables us to liberate our body, mind, and spirit. This month, Tsukuru is offering 20-minute light movement and pranayama (breathing exercise) sessions with techniques you can take home with and heal yourself every day.
flyer design by @4ever_andeva 🎨
Hi, siblings!
If you are around and free, we would love to see you! If not, please spread the word!!!
We are hosting a film screening next Sunday, April 5th, from 1 to 4pm, at Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice.
We are screening “The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On,” a 1987 documentary by Kazuo Hara. I watched this film when I was 16. It was recommended by a Japanese lit. teacher at my high school in Hiroshima (that itself was a radical act). I went to watch it in a theater, as it was just released. I recently recommended the film to Annie Jump who, as I had expected, had a lot to say about it. The film forces us to think and self-reflect about how we define activism, the pursuit of truths and justice, and how we attach (or don’t) legitimacy to certain tactics.
Admission is free. Donations appreciated. (Food will be served as well!!!)
Court Support Needed for Activist Annie Jump Vicente TOMORROW
March 24th 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Meet in front of the Monitors/Find the Room Listings by Name
Further Dates TBA
Airport Courthouse
11701 La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Who is Annie Jump?
Annie Jump Vicente is an activist and vocal advocate for unhoused and trans people in West Hollywood. In February of 2024 Annie Jump was in a physical altercation with WeHo’s then private security force Block by Block. Jump maintains that the security officer was the initiator of the altercation and has body cam footage to support her claims that haven’t been released to the public.
Instead of a fair trial Annie Jump has faced exaggerated charges (pepper spray is being categorized as a deadly weapon) and media interference meant to influence public opinion in what appears to be a politically motivated case.
If you can only come for thirty minutes or two hours or you can stay the whole time, it is helpful!
If you cannot be there in person, consider contributing funds to buy in person supporters lunch, water, and snacks. You can also drop off snacks and water.
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More on Court Support:/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Court-Support-Brochure-Draft-eng-color.pdf
WeHo Times one sided reporting /tag/annie-jump/
Annie Jump Vicente, a displaced trans rights advocate formerly of WeHo, needs your support.
She is currently facing two felony charges for acting in self defense. The case is extremely important, because it may very likely set precedence for how we, members of marginalized groups, are treated in court for defending ourselves against hate and retaliatory attacks for advocating for our and others' rights.
The next court date is tomorrow, October 14, 2025. The location is Airport Courthouse, 11701 South La Cienega Blvd., CA 90045. There are two separate cases, and they don't tell you when the cases are heard in advance so we are asking folx to show up at 8:30am and keep us company.
If you cannot show up at 8:30am but can show up later, please DM me for updates. If there is any confusion about where to go when you show up, please DM me as well!
Thanks in advance! See you tomorrow in court!!!
🏳️⚧️ Trans History is Now: Reclaiming our Origin Stories and Finding Freedom + Healing through Storytelling
Ft. @ashtonsphillips 💬
Trans history is happening right now — and your story is powerful. This event invites TGI folks to reclaim erased narratives, envision new futures, and experience community-rooted healing.
💞Healer Spotlight!
We’re uplifting members of our TGI Healer Network, a beautiful constellation of transgender and gender nonconforming healers offering care for us, by us.
From 1-3pm Come experience:
🌿 T4T-led bodywork
🌱 Somatic 1-1s
🌀 Trauma-informed care and De-Escalation Workshops
💃🏽 Sound Therapy
...and more!
✨ This is a free, affirming clinic centered in collective care and trans liberation.
🎤 Plus: a story-sharing workshop where participants can record and archive their truths & fictions — part oral history, part speculative futures, all healing.
🎨 Oral History Workshop led by: @ashtonsphillips
📸 Flyer Design: @shumarikairon
📚 Organized by Gender Justice LA as part of the Circa: Queer Histories Festival 2025
🧪 Masks + COVID tests required
♿ ADA accessible — access needs? Let us know in your RSVP!
🤍🩷🩵 Come be held. Come be heard. Come heal. 🩵🩷🤍
#TransHistoryIsNow #TGIHealerNetwork #HealingJustice #GenderJusticeLA #CircaFestival2025 #T4THealing #QueerHealingSpaces #TransLiberationNow #SpeculativeStorytelling #OralHistory #HealersSpotlight
On September 1, 1923, in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake, rumors were spread by the Japanese authorities falsely alerting the public that Koreans were poisoning wells and starting riots, inciting civilian vigilantes to take up arms and start slaughtering people who could not pronounce certain words "the right way." The exact number of the victims is not knowable, because the bodies were burnt to conceal the evidence; however, it's been estimated that more than 6,000 Koreans, Chinese, Japanese with accents, communists, socialists, and anarchists were killed.
The Japanese government has denied the historical facts of the Kanto Massacre by varying degrees. Since 2017, Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike has refused to offer condolences to the descendants of the Kanto Massacre.
Last year, Nikkei Decolonization Tour called to Nikkei organizers and activists to organize the Kanto Massacre commemorations in multiple cities across North America. Trans Rescue Action (TRA) was honored to be included as a co-organizer of the commemoration in San Francisco. This year, we are grateful that we can be part of it as well, this time as a co-host for the commemoration in Los Angeles, along with J-Town Action と Solidarity.
Horrors are taking place in this nation which some call "the USA," where people are being disappeared by masked agents and bounty hunters. The Kanto Massacre does not seem so far apart from the current reality that we live in. I believe that important questions are: what does each of us learn from what happened 102 years ago and what can we do to prevent atrocities like the Kanto Massacre from happening?
As a Japanese person born and raised in Japan, an Asian immigrant in the US, and a trans person, it is important to me to be a co-host of this commemoration in Little Tokyo, 2025.
We will never forget. Never Again is Now. I hope you can join us on Saturday, August 30, at 4pm in Little Tokyo on the corner of the 1st and Judge Aiso Street. See you there!!!
REPOST @chelseahartisme
‼️Trump is recycling Japanese Internment Camps from post-WWII for current ICE detention camps. The Japanese Internment camps detained both immigrants AND citizens alike, and was the last time our country was in a Constitutional Crisis. At least 1862 died while in custody, and at least 7 of those were by suicide. The government said that targeting Japanese residents was a military necessity, but it was and has been deemed an act of racial discrimination, targeting and arresting individuals solely on their ancestry and not on the basis of disloyalty or criminal acts.
“On February 19, 1942, 10 weeks after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of any or all people from military areas “as deemed necessary or desirable.” The military in turn defined the entire West Coast, home to the majority of Americans of Japanese ancestry or citizenship, as a military area.
By June, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly moved to remote prison camps built by the U.S. military in scattered locations around the country. For the next two and a half years, many of these Japanese Americans endured extremely difficult living conditions and poor treatment by their military guards.”
Source: History.com
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AnnieJump Vicente's next court date is Wednesday, August 27, 2025. There are two cases on the same day. Please come to Airport Courthouse, 11701 La Cienega Blvd., LA CA 90045, at 8:30am if you can. They don't tell you exactly when the cases are being heard so we may need to wait for some time.
Her trials are expected to happen in September and/or October. Please stay tuned. She needs community support. These cases are bigger than AnnieJump; they are about our rights as members of the marginalized communities to defend ourselves against physical, verbal, and sexual violence on the street.
Can we afford to keep walking away from bigotry and hate, or do we choose to fight back? What if we are criminalized for fighting back?
