Creating Change 2024 Program

January 17-21, 2024

Hilton New Orleans Riverside | New Orleans, LA #WeAreCreatingChange creatingchange.org

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Hilton New Orleans Riverside | Nueva Orleans, LA #CreandoCambio creatingchange.org

Fifty years of advancing freedom, justice and equality for LGBTQ people.

Fifty years of building a future where everyone is free to be their entire selves in every aspect of their lives.

Fifty years of training and mobilizing millions of activists to deliver a world where you can be you.

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As of December 19, 2023 (Schedule is subject to slight change based on programming priorities and unforeseen occurrences)

TUESDAY, JANUARY 16 3:00pm – 10:00pm 4:00pm – 5:00pm 6:00pm – 7:00pm

Registration Hours First Timers’ Orientation Session 1 First Timers’ Orientation Session 2

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17 7:30am – 10:00pm 8:00am – 11:00pm 9:00am - 11:00am 11:00am – 6:00pm 11:00am – 6:00pm 11:00am – 6:30pm 11:15am – 12:30pm 12:00pm - 10:00pm 12:30pm - 1:30pm 1:45pm - 3:00pm 3:30pm - 4:45pm 5:15pm - 6:30pm 7:00pm - 8:00pm 10:00pm – 1:00am

Registration Hours Many Paths Gathering Space Opening Plenary 8th House Wellness Space Exhibits/Bookstore Hours Art Space Studio – A Queer Creative Space Caucus Sessions 1 Gayme Room & Nights Lunch on your own Workshops Session 1 Workshops Session 2 Workshops Session 3 Conference Director and Task Force Feedback Session (1 of 2) Opening Cruise

THURSDAY, JANUARY 18 7:30am – 10:00pm 8:00am – 11:00pm 8:30am - 10:00am 10:30am - 5:00pm 10:30am – 5:00pm 10:30am – 5:00pm 10:30am – 4:30pm 12:00pm - 10:00pm 1:00pm - 2:00pm 5:00pm – 6:15pm 9:00pm – 12:00am

Registration Hours Many Paths Gathering Space Breakfast Plenary Exhibits/Bookstore Hours 8th House Wellness Space Art Space Studio – A Queer Creative Space Day-Long Racial Justice Institutes Gayme Room & Nights featuring Jackbox Games Lunch on your own Caucus Sessions 2 Creating Change Epic Variety Show! continued >

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Starbucks Workers United has organized over 9,500 Starbucks workers, including many queer and trans workers, in over 360 stores across 41 states and Washington D.C. and sparked a wave of organizing across the country.

Workers have organized despite facing the worst union-busting campaign in modern U.S. history. Starbucks has fired workers, cut workers’ hours which have resulted in loss of pay and benefits, and denied benefits to unionized workers as part of its scorched-earth anti union campaign.

A union contract is one of the strongest ways for LGBTQIA+ workers to build power, protect our rights and ensure equity and inclusivity at work – especially as some states actively pass drastic legislation to deny and restrict our humanity.

If Starbucks really cares about LGBTQIA+ rights, they would bargain in good faith and negotiate a contract with our union that puts our rights in writing.

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Join us and sign the No Contract, No Coffee Pledge.

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schedule-at-a-glance FRIDAY, JANUARY 19 7:30am – 10:00pm 8:00am – 11:00pm 9:00am - 5:00pm 9:00am – 5:00pm 9:00am – 3:00pm 9:00am – 5:00pm 12:00pm - 1:00pm 12:00pm - 10:00pm 12:30pm – 1:30pm 3:30pm - 5:00pm 5:30pm - 6:45pm 7:00pm - 8:30pm 9:00pm – 1:00am

Registration Hours Many Paths Gathering Space Exhibits/Bookstore Hours 8th House Wellness Space Day-Long Institutes Art Space Studio – A Queer Creative Space Lunch on your own Gayme Room & Nights featuring Karaoke Muslim Friday Prayer – Salatul-Jumu’ah State of the Movement Plenary Caucus Sessions 3 Friday Night Shabbat Service Agents of Change Masquerade Ball

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20 7:30am – 10:00pm 8:00am – 11:00pm 9:00am - 1:30pm 9:00am – 5:00pm 9:00am – 5:00pm 9:00am - 10:30am 11:00am – 12:15pm 12:00pm – 10:00pm 12:15pm - 1:30pm 1:30pm – 2:45pm 3:15pm - 4:30pm 5:00pm - 6:30pm 8:00pm – 12:00am

Registration Hours Many Paths Gathering Space Exhibits/Bookstore Hours 8th House Wellness Space Art Space Studio – A Queer Creative Space Workshops Session 4 Workshops Session 5 Gayme Room & Nights featuring Drag Bingo Lunch on your own Workshops Session 6 Workshops Sessions 7 Closing Plenary Kierra’s Kabaret: The Gold Experience, Celebrating Queer Joy

SUNDAY, JANUARY 21 7:30am – 12:00pm 8:30am - 10:00am 10:30am - 12:00pm 12:00pm

Registration Information Desk Hours Interfaith Service Closing Celebration: Coffee, Sweet Things and Goodbyes!

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Dear Creating Change Conference family, friends, and colleagues,

Queer Power. Queer Action. Queer Joy. We need all of these, now more than ever. My hope is that you grab onto

every single one at this year’s Creating Change, in beautiful, vibrant, diverse, glorious New Orleans! We are thrilled to be here in person, a promise we made to ourselves and this amazing city and its queer community after needing to go virtual in 2021.

We face a challenging year for our community - let’s be honest, for this country and the world. It will be a year filled with pain and opportunity. A Presidential election, continued attacks on our community, global crises and more.

I knew what I was taking on as I assumed leadership at the Task Force – an organization with a fifty year legacy of progress amid policy and legislative advances and setbacks, relationships forged and lost. We have experienced healing from harm caused and felt, lessons learned, and feelings ranging from sadness to joyful...hopelessness to powerful.

In the middle of a pandemic, with our lives are under attack. Our trans, gender queer and non-binary children are being targeted. Religion has been weaponized to deny care and rights to our loved ones. The erosion of voting rights, the dehumanization of immigrants, the policing of black and brown bodies, attempts to erase the contributions of our people and more.

And we are all devastated by an international conflict and war in the Middle East that has destroyed thousands of lives, mobilized, and divided so many communities and continues to break our hearts, pain our souls, and drive us to action.

We are at a crossroads – one we all have seen coming and have been fighting for, as an organization at the intersections and striving to play a role to connect the dots and uplift them.

Being in this space with you at Creating Change is the best place I could imagine finding myself in right now – with all of you - to inspire, energize and fortify myself for the year ahead. It also comes with not a little anxiety, as the past year was one filled with joy and despair, life and death, victory, and defeat. Carrying a message that meets this movement moment is huge and as a child of the South, the first bisexual and pansexual Black women to lead the Task Force, my shoulders are heavy with responsibility. For me, this all boils down to the one element I pray we can all agree on – the value of our humanity. Of all humanity. This community, in all its diversity, knows so well that when our very humanity is questioned, we all suffer.

We know firsthand how the dehumanization of the “other,” both discursively and rhetorically, often leads to actual, material violence felt by communities with the least amount of power and resources. Many forms of violence are rooted in “othering” what is unknown or less powerful. The resulting harm is very real violence.

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Being in this space with you at Creating Change is the best place I could imagine finding myself in right now – with all of you - to inspire, energize and fortify myself for the year ahead.

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The work we are leading within the Task Force aims to create a different future – one that fundamentally aims to disrupt and dismantle language and systems that dehumanize and harm others.

As we begin this 36th gathering, I enter with the conviction that the first responsibility we have is to honor and affirm each other’s humanity. Each person’s right to health, dignity, and agency. To learn. Laugh and love. The opportunity to evolve into our better selves with each breath, with each experience in our lives.

I am sure we will have debates and challenging conversations about the lives shattered and lost in the terror attack Hamas and retaliation by Israel – some know much of the history, some less but my hope is we can find a space to recognize the lives, hope and dreams destroyed by all those impacted who continue to suffer under state sanctioned violence.

And we will need to do it with queer power, queer action, queer joy...and with a lot of love. Not valentines-day-hallmark-card love. Deep, transformational, lifeaffirming love.

I know and appreciate the deep passion and extraordinary pain we are all bringing to New Orleans. I also know that Creating Change has been a space to raise consciousness and visibility and traditionally welcomed dissent and protest. How do we live our truths this year and not tear ourselves apart? This has weighed on my heart and mind for months – and I offer you this: I do not know every single one of you. But I love the humanity of you. I love the complexity of you...of us. I love that you and we have the human ability to evolve, heal, persevere. I love that we can so deeply and indescribably love each other.

We all see the pain. But I also see an unstoppable force capable of dismantling the barriers that hinder our collective progress….a multigenerational, multi-racial and cultural movement cemented in the pursuit of equity, liberation, and justice.

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I do not know every single one of you. But I love the humanity of you. I love the complexity of you...of us.

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It is that spirit of love, commitment, and camaraderie in which we celebrate what has brought the task force to our 50th anniversary and this 36th Creating Change – as an organization that has led the way for our movement to be more progressive, more intersectional, and more inclusive. How do we lead with that?

This past year the National LGBTQ Task Force celebrated 50 years of impact, telling the stories of the pioneers who paved the way for us today, honoring people who have been on the front lines, fighting for queer liberation for half a century. But we are also laser focused on envisioning the next 50 years of action – and what we need to do to secure our wins, expand civil liberties for our communities and fortify our democracy. The community is watching, the movement is watching, and the world is watching. And we need your support, your participation, and your love to move forward – may we take this time in New Orleans to find that way forward, with love and justice, with a renewed commitment and a desire to do this work with open hearts and open minds.

In solidarity and peace, Kierra Johnson Executive Director #CC24

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SPONSORS LEADER $50,000+

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ORGAN IZER $5,000+

ME NT O R $2,500+

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We thank and appreciate these organizations and people who helped make Creating Change 2024 a great success!

AIDS United Alex Breitman and Outshine Events Andrea Zekis Andy Garcia Aredvi Azad Art Studio Space: Rae Senarighi Avenue Travel Ben DeGuzman Cecilia Saenz Becerra Charlotte Gamers Network Chloe Cole-Wilson Chrissy Lasater Christopher Cuevas Daniel Isaac David Bohnett Foundation David Pettifer of Bored Wreckers Inc. Deaf Queer Resource Center Denson Design: Audrey Denson Domenic Gallelli Doyle Printing Drago Renteria Jennifer Emerson Jerard Kelley Encore Global Fabulosa Firefly Partners Glenn Magpantay Gloria Delgadillo Ignacio Rivera The Harrington Agency Jack Harrison Quintana

Jaime Grant Justin Lemley Kelly Horkan Lambda Literary Left of Center Productions: Linda Lewis and Melissa Donovan Lucky Break Public Relations Marc Behar Mariah Moore Matt Foreman melissa kelley colibri Michael Bongiorni Michelle Meow Mija National Black Justice Coalition National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) National Religious Leadership Roundtable Lee Perine PheedLoop, Inc. Power to the Meeple The Qube/Anna DeShawn Russell Roybal Site Services: Julie Augustine Je Naé Taylor Tanya Domi Tymber Hudson UNITE HERE Virginia Apuzzo We Are Rally #CC24

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CONFERENCE POLICIES

W E L C O M E T O # We A re C re a t i n g C h a n g e

You and Your Badge We are so happy that you are part of our family at Creating Change 2024! We ask you to visibly display your registration name badge when attending plenary sessions, workshops and caucuses and evening events; your badge is your “ticket.” Wearing your badge is a friendly thing to do because it makes it easier for folks to call you by name. As well, the wellbeing of all of us is a top priority: your name badge means you are part of our Creating Change family. Please wear your badge. Creating Change registrants without badges will be asked to retrieve them; or to purchase a new badge at Registration for an administrative fee of $5.

Save yourself the inconvenience. Wear your badge.

Thanks!

plenary sessions, meetings or exhibits that result in attendees not being able to fully participate in learning and educational opportunities available at Creating Change. We ask that this core principle of free exchange of ideas be respected as essential to the mission and spirit of the Creating Change Conference.

Please abide by these guidelines and this information: •

Protests that occur on the plenary stage may not exceed 5 minutes. Anything longer than that is disrespectful to those we’ve invited as plenary speakers, whose voices are often the most marginalized and silenced in society.

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Protests within the hotel must be nonviolent “moving protests,” that is, they proceed in a walking formation to avoid violations of Fire Code regulations regarding impeding the movements of others through the hotel and blocking doorways to meeting rooms.

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Hotels are not public spaces. The New Orleans Riverside can report any protest to local law enforcement at their discretion.

Protest Policy

Political expression is an essential principle of democracy and in our LGBTQ movement for freedom, justice and equality. We welcome debate and dialogue as key elements of the Creating Change Conference. While some participants may want to engage in nonviolent protest, the Task Force discourages the disruption of conference sessions, 12

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CONFERENCE POLICIES •

Violations of this policy may result in being asked to leave the Creating Change Conference in New Orleans, LA, and risks participation in future conferences.

The National LGBTQ Task Force reserves the right to determine whether a demonstration is disruptive and/or detrimental to the conference programs at Creating Change and to take action accordingly.

We seek to provide avenues for political expression while also balancing this with the needs of attendees, presenters, and exhibitors.

For those who may be organizing protests within the The New Orleans Riverside during the Creating Change Conference, we ask you to inform the

Conference Director (dlinden@thetaskforce.org; 202-639-6306) and designate a contact person for your protest.

No Guns at Creating Change!

The National LGBTQ Task Force joins with the millions of people working to end gun violence.

We ask, in the interest of everyone’s comfort and wellbeing, that no guns be brought into our conference spaces, sessions, and gatherings. We do not want guns or other deadly/dangerous weapons at Creating Change! If any attendee is observed carrying a gun while participating in the Creating Change Conference, you will be asked to remove it from the premises.

Values Of The National LGBTQ Task Force All participants at Creating Change are expected to uphold the values of the National LGBTQ Task Force.

Our Values

INNOVATION

Love, Commitment & Compassion INTERSECTIONALITY

JUSTICE & LIBERATION Progressive Voice

Centrality of Sex & Sexuality

We also oppose: • Ableism • Ageism • Anti-Semitism • Classism • Heterosexism

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Movement Sustainability Diversity & Inclusion

Grassroots Power

Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia Islamophobia Racism Sexism and Misogyny Hatred or prejudice of any kind, including hate speech

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RADICAL WELCOME

We are excited to be in New Orleans for Creating Change Conference 2024!

We invite you to join in this extraordinary conference experience in the spirit of radical welcome: love, curiosity, and respect for each other and our LGBTQ family. The Creating Change Conference convenes people of varying and diverse political opinions and strategic focus. Our individual and collective capacity to hold multiple perspectives, even when we disagree, is a valuable movement-building tool.

The Task Force welcomes you to our conference community of activists, organizers, and advocates as we work to build the strongest possible LGBTQ and allied movement. As we gather together this year to learn, connect, and persist, we feel enormously proud to host you –– our beautiful, diverse LGBTQ and allied community! Creating Change is a movement space where vibrant differences in race, socio-economic class, geography, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression is welcome. Some Creating Change attendees are not accustomed to sharing space with so many different people who identify as living with HIV, or talk about surviving sexual abuse, or discuss their sobriety, or gender identity, or religious beliefs, or immigration status as openly as some people will at our conference. The Task Force works hard to create an engaged, inclusive, and safe space for all of our attendees. Thanks for you for helping us make the magic!

Practicing Radical Welcome at Creating Change A core value of the National LGBTQ Task Force is Radical Welcome. Thank you for your help in ensuring that Creating Change is an environment where all participants feel welcome, comfortable and celebrated as members of the Creating Change 14

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family. We are committed to being a welcoming space for the LGBTQ community and our allies. We want everyone to learn a lot, meet fabulous new people from all over the country, and experience full and authentic connections in order to build a stronger, more inclusive, LGBTQ movement. You are welcome here— This is a place filled with new people and movement sages and we want you to contribute to what makes this community special.

Please join us in creating a warm and friendly space for all. Catch up with dear old friends and make some new ones. Know that you are free to introduce yourself, share your pronouns, and be curious about who you meet. Be radical by being you!

Access— Please be mindful of how physically accessible public spaces are and join us in supporting our friends who may need wider space to pass. Additionally, work with us and each other to support language justice in our workshops and plenaries. It really helps when we all slow down.

Intentional about Power and Privilege— Be intentional about your privilege and show up for folks who may be vulnerable. Recognize how much space you are taking up (either with words, actions or your stuff) and think about how to create space for others.

Consent— Many Creating Change attendees create and build social and sexual relationships while at the Conference. We flirt! We celebrate! Please be mindful that consent is essential.

Practice wellness— This should be a place to create change, not create flu. Be mindful of how others may be put a at risk by catching cold or flu, wash your hands, cover your mouth when you cough, and respect others that don’t wish to share food or drinks.

CREATING A POSITIVE ENVIRONMENT Creating Change is committed to creating a positive environment for the LGBTQ community and our allies. We want everyone here to learn a lot, meet fabulous new people from all over the country, and feel good about talking and connecting with each other as we build a stronger movement.

Creating Change is proud to host a beautiful and diverse LGBTQ and allied community where vibrant diversity in sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression is welcome. It is all our responsibility to ensure that each member of our LGBTQ and ally family feels welcome and affirmed.

To that end, we want to remind everyone of guiding principles that are essential to maintaining respectful and positive space for each other.

Thank you for your help in ensuring that Creating Change is an environment where all participants feel safe, comfortable and celebrated as members of the Creating Change family. If you experience sexual harassment or violence or feel threatened, please ask to speak with the Conference Director Danny Linden at dlinden@thetaskforce.org or 202.639.6306.

There are two fundamental principles to the Creating Change Conference: human rights and solidarity.

Sexual harassment and other forms of violence strike at the heart of both. Harassment, violence, bullying and bigotry create feelings of fear, uneasiness, trauma, humiliation and discomfort. They are expressions of perceived power and superiority by the harasser over another person. Sometimes, even when our actions are not intentionally hurtful, what we say and do can hurt others or make them feel uncomfortable.

Sexual Harassment Sexual harassment is a form of discrimination and potential violence and refers to any unwanted attention of a sexual nature, including: • • • • • • • •

Unwanted flirtations or advances Offensive written or visual depictions like graffiti or degrading pictures Touching someone without their permission (groping, grabbing, hugging, petting, biting) Unwanted sexual demands, pressure, propositions, or requests for sexual activities Graphic comments about an individual’s body or dress Verbal abuse, including sexual insults and name calling Rewards for granting sexual favors or the withholding of rewards for refusing to grant sexual favors Sexual assault, rape, and sexual violence

Many Creating Change attendees create and build social and sexual relationships while at the Conference. We want to remind you that, if you are thinking about hooking up, consent is essential.

Please be sure that all involved have similar expectations. And please play safe!

Hate Speech Is Not Welcome At Creating Change The Task Force supports free speech. Hate speech will not be tolerated at Creating Change. With all of the hate speech directed at others in politics, society, and communities across the country, we seek a Creating Change Conference space in which we are not expressing hate speech towards each other.

Hate speech is defined as abusive or threatening speech or writing that expresses prejudice against a particular group. This includes words, phrases, and chants that target specific groups and are widely recognized as racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, transphobic, bi-phobic, homophobic, ableist, ageist, classist, sexist and misogynist, or attacks a person or a group on the basis of other protected attributes.

The Task Force reserves the right to address instances of hate speech that may occur at Creating Change in ways it deems appropriate, including asking people to not participate in some or all of the conference. If you have experienced hate speech at the conference, please ask to speak with the Conference Director Danny Linden at dlinden@ thetaskforce.org or 202.639.6306.

Policy Violations The Task Force reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to determine if the above policies have been violated. Violations of this policy may result in being asked to leave the Creating Change Conference in New Orleans, LA, and risks

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CREATING ACCESSIBILITY The National LGBTQ Task Force and the Creating Change 2024 organizers and host venue strive to make Creating Change welcoming and accessible for attendees with disabilities. In the spirit of learning how our communities can be inclusive of and accessible to all people, we offer these guidelines for creating a community where people with disabilities are valued and respected.

When you encounter someone using a service/assistance or guide dog, do not pet, offer food to, or interact with the animal in any way.

Do not comment on the dog’s presence i.e. “and who do we have here?” They are working hard; you are supporting the independence and autonomy they provide by not distracting them.

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When you are speaking to someone using an ASL (American Sign Language) interpreter, address the person you are speaking with, not the interpreter.

Many people here have disabilities that affect the ways that they learn, understand, and/or communicate. Practice patience with those who learn and/or communicate at a different pace or in a different way than you do. Don’t make assumptions ACCESSIBILTY based on atypical speech patterns, “Just because you are, doesn’t mean body language, or you know” - there is always more to eye contact. If you learn about how other people move are having difficulty through the world and what they need. communicating Here are a few changes and with someone, try improvements on Accessibility that a different form of have been implemented during the communication, past six years. like writing or demonstration • Improved mobility by offering instead of talking. scooters and other mobility Flashing lights can devices and e-readers. trigger seizures or • Improved access for Spanish other conditions. speakers with the addition of Avoid wearing or interpreters carrying decorative flashing lights • Improved access for deaf/ and don’t take HoH people who need ASL by photographs using providing interpreters the flash on your • Committed to negotiate with camera in public and select accessible conference spaces. venues.

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Understand that the lives of disabled people are neither inspirational nor pitiful because of our disabilities. Rather our disabilities are ordinary and familiar parts of who we are.

Ask and wait for an answer before you try to help someone.

What you assume is helpful may not be.

at a moderate volume and pace. Practice active listening by asking and responding to questions and giving both verbal and nonverbal cues that you are still engaged in the conversation.

CREATING ACCESSIBILITY aside for people with varying disabilities, both up front and scattered throughout in the plenary space and in the meeting rooms. Please be prepared to move chairs to make room for people using wheelchairs, wherever they may wish to sit at plenary sessions and workshops.

To make it easier for everyone to move around the conference freely, please don’t “clump” in the middle hallways. Be aware of the people around you when navigating tight, crowded public spaces, and leave room for people to pass safely; and please hold heavy or inaccessible doors open for others.

Becoming scentfree is an important step toward access for people with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses and is a skill you can practice everywhere. If you are not accustomed to going scent-free, think about the products you use in your day.

You can either not use shampoo, soap, hair products, perfume, essential oils, skin lotion, shaving cream, makeup etc., or use fragrance-free alternatives. If you must use scented products, please sit or stand as far away as possible from areas designated “Scent Safer” areas. During plenary sessions,

scent-safer spaces are designated in the ballroom. If scents and chemicals present a barrier for you, please know that Creating Change is not yet a scent-free conference.

If you smoke, please do so only in the designated areas and away from entrances.

When inside please sit or stand as far away as possible from those areas designated “Scent Safer” areas.

Challenge your assumptions. Some disabilities are less visible than others.

Everyone has a right to use the accommodations they need without being criticized or questioned.

LANGUAGE JUSTICE “For us, language justice is about building and sustaining multilingual spaces in our organizations and social movements so that everyone’s voice can be heard both as an individual and as part of a diversity of communities and cultures. Valuing language justice means recognizing the social and political dimensions of language and language access, while working to dismantle language barriers, equalize power dynamics, and build strong communities for social and racial justice.

No single or static definition for language justice exists. We expect that our understanding of the concept of language justice and its implications for movement-building will continue to change and deepen as the movement grows” - Language Justice from Communities Creating Healthy Environments (CCHE) Language Justice Toolkit

The Accessibility office is staffed at most times during the Creating Change Conference. If you have questions, concerns or need assistance regarding access, please stop by the Accesibility Table adjacent to the registration area on Level 1 near the Grand Ballroom: • Electric scooters and wheelchairs.

• Viewing a large print grid schedule of events.

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CREATING ACCESSIBILITY • Readers • Step stools Conference attendees utilizing ASL interpreting services can meet interpreters at the Accessibility Table adjacent to the registration area on the first floor.

Listen to the needs and stories of disabled people when they are volunteered; yet please respect people’s privacy and boundaries by not asking unnecessarily intrusive questions.

Many disabled people

HEARING IMPAIRED

Please erase “hearing impaired” from your mind AND do not start an interaction with a deaf person by asking if they can read lips, these are the two quickest ways to piss off a queer deaf person.

deal with daily curiosity about our bodies and find it exhausting. Educate yourself through books, web sites, and at the disabilityrelated workshops at Creating Change.

Then, please join the many hardworking allies who are working to respond appropriately to ableist situations.

Thanks for helping to make Creating Change a truly accessible event for all.

Reach out to CreatingChangeASL@gmail.com for ASL access during the conference. Do not assume interpreters make decisions, on our behalf, ask us directly.

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Coalition Building by Design: Intersectionality in Professional Advocacy Organizations

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Coalition Building on College Campuses within Red States

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Collective Resistance Against Criminalization

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Counting LGBTQI+ People: The American Community Survey, the Census, and International Efforts

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#Time2Run: LGBTQ+ Campaigns and Candidacy

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Anti-Capitalist Personal Finance 101

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Art of Connection: Ballroom and Vogueing as Catalysts for Empowerment

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Asset-Based Queer Sexual Violence Prevention

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BDSM and Spirituality: Divine Kink

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Crafting our LGBTQIA+ Narratives

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Bestie, Start That Business!

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Brujx who Kink! Adding BDSM limpias to your curanderx tool kit

Creating Culture Change...One SACRED Story at a Time

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Building a Queer Asian Community and Movement

Creating LGBTQ+ Affirming Environments in Rural Areas

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Creative RESTsistance

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Building Community Between Boomers and Gen Z in the Leather Community

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Decentering Cisness: Supporting the T as LGB Activists

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Building Interventions Together: LGBTQ+ Cancer Disparities and Co-Building Best Practices

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Decentering Whiteness within the Non-Profit Sector

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Building Multiracial Democracy: Queers Fight the Right!

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Decluttering Joy and Pleasure

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Building Queer Power for the Equality Act

Decolonizing Spirituality: Indigenous Healing Practices for QTPOC Joy

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Centering All Families: Securing Paid Leave for Workers in the South and Their Chosen Family

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Defending Reproductive Freedom and LGBTQ+ Rights: An Innovative and Strategic MultiPronged Approach

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Centering BIPOC Joy in Queer Vacation Spaces

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Chemsex: Queering Harm Reduction in a PNP World

Demystifying Foundation Fundraising: What You Should Know About LGBTQ Philanthropy

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LGBTQ Liberation and Our Democracy Visions

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Dismantling the Master’s House: Race, Electoral Systems, and Power

Liberation through literature: fighting censorship in our schools

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Locally Queer: Organizing for a Better Future

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Drag Is Not a Crime! Using Drag as a Tool for Resistance and Change

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Making a Case for the Black Transgender Child

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MANA Food Sovereignty

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Electoral Safety: GOTV Canvassing

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Meeting the Moment: Rapid Response Fundraising

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Empowering Communities Through Food Justice Initiatives

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Navigating the South: Decriminalizing HIV and Ending the Epidemic

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Ending Biphobia with Bi+ Philanthropy

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Ending Conversion Therapy Through Community Building

Our Gender, Our Drag, Our Lives: Fighting AntiTrans Fascism

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Fighting for the Future of Sex Ed and LGBTQ+ Youth

Out in Education: Connecting with LGBTQ+ youth

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Fighting White Christian Nationalism Starts at Home

Pitch, Please! Elevating Queer Voices through Rapid Response Communications

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Practices of Consent

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Prepare to be a FIERCE Caregiver: Create a Plan

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Findings Report from Comprehensive National LGBTQ+ Women’s Community Survey

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Forging Non-Binary and Trans-Masculine BIPOC Leadership

Preserving Latina/o/x LGBTQ Histories through orality and archives

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Grant writing. Accessing Funding for Small, Grassroots Organizations

Press Play: Songs That Soundtracked the AIDS Crisis

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Harm Reduction in Schools: Creative Responses to Oppressive Practices

Protect Your People: Advocating for Digital Security in LGBTQ+ Organizations

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Healing from Spiritual Violence as QTPOC People of Faith

Put the South in Your Mouth: Connecting Queer Southerners

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HIV, pleasure, and action: Sex empowerment and HIV

Queering the Courts: Representation in Every Branch

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Housing is Health; Alianza Tranzlatinx’s Trans Housing Equity Program

Queering Tradition: Embracing Judaism and LGBTQ+ Identity for a Liberated Future

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How Unions Protect Queer and Trans Workers

Reclaiming Māhū: Restoring Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Movement Work

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Inclusive LGBTQ+ and HIV Aging Policy: Joining Local Government Councils and Boards

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Kink In Color: Celebrating Black Bodies in Kink Spaces

Resistance in Practice: Practical Skills for Shared Leadership, Self-Management, and Liberatory HR Practices

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Resourcing Equity: Funders As Accomplices

Know Justice, Know Peace: HIV and Reproductive Justice from a Black Queer Feminist Perspective

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Running for Office as a Black LGBTQ+/SGL Person

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Sex and Pleasure in an Aging Queer Community

Leś Talk: Empowering Black and Brown Queer Women: Building Capacity for Inclusive Movements

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Sex Workers Speak: a conversation about decriminalization and BIPOC

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Trans in Athletics: Inclusion and ‘Fairness’

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Trans is Holy

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TGNC Sex Worker Leadership

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Sexy Survivor: Rebuilding Trust

TRANSforming Our Story: Effective Storytelling to Build Trans Power

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Spillin’ Tea: How Medical Mistrust Impacts Queer and Trans Young Black Women

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Starbucks Workers United: Unionize with Pride!

Unleashing the Magic Within: The Power of AfroQueer Imagination

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Supporting LGBTQIA+ Communities through an Abolitionist Lens

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Unlikely Allies: building coalitions beyond LGBTQ organizations

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SWEI (Sex Worker Empowerment Initiative) Decriminalizing Sex Work in Washington

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Using Our Voice to Save Lives

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Warning: Fighting New HIV Criminalization Threats to LGBTQ+ and Black Communities

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Taking Pride in Being Tobacco-Free: Understanding How Tobacco Kills Us

We Are Fundable: Organizing Trans BIPOC Communities in Rural America and the Ozarks

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We Keep Each Other Safe: Community Models for Responding to Domestic Violence

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We Take Care of Us: Harm Reduction Practices and Skills-Building

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We’re here, we’re queer, we’re loved!: Queer Representation and Inclusion on the Campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities

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What’s in an Acronym? The Importance of Intersectional Advocacy and Justice in the Queer and Trans Pacific Islander Diasporic Communities.

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BODY LANGUAGE- Body Image and Experience for Black Gay, Queer, and Same Gender Loving Men

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Caucus for LGBTQ+ Healthcare Workers

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Creating a vision of religious freedom and LGBTQ+ freedom

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Telling Stories to Organize Across Generations

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The Authoritarian Threats to the LGBTQ Movement

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The Black Gay Community and Crystal Meth

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The South Has Something To Slay

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These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

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This Ain’t The Love Boat: Transformative Relationships for Abolitionists

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Trans and Intersex Solidarity: bodily autonomy, athletics and human rights

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Trans Demands: Shifting the Narrative on AntiTrans Violence

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Advanced Polyamory/Nonmonogamy

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Analyzing the Wellness of Black LGBTQ+ People Who Can Become Pregnant

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Authentic Voice and Advocacy: Amplifying Trans and Gender Expansive Voices in Leadership

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Disibili-tea: Best Practices for Mobilizing the 2-SLGBTQQIA+ and Disability Communities

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Exploring Messy Middles: BIPOC and Bi+ Caucus

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Florida Caucus

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Hey Sis: An Affinity Space for Trans Women of Color Engaged in Sex Work

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I Got You: Supporting Transgender, Non-binary, and Gender-expansive Youth in Schools

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JIGGLE Like No One is Watching

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The Changing Environment of Fighting AntiLGBTQ+ Extremism in the Classroom

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The New Trans Legal Movement

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The Queer God: Remembering, Reclaiming and Reimagining Black Queer Divinity

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Liberatory Masculinities: Wellness, Visibility, and Connection

The Science and Philosophy Behind Current Social Justice Institutional Grantmaking Structures

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Middle Eastern and North African Caucus

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Theirstory: A gender fluid discussion on ancestry

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Pagan, Nature Spirituality, and Radical Faerie Heart Circle

Trade-ish; an intimate look at black masculinity within queer spaces

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Parents Supporting Parents

Trans and Nonbinary Artists of Color: Excellence in Action

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Polyamory/Nonmonogamy for Beginners

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Queer Christians Against Christian Nationalism

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TRANScending Borders and Gender

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Queering Climate Justice

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Transformative Justice Exploration for Transmasculine and Masculine-of-Center BIPOC

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Rebuilding Trust with LGBTQ+ Veterans

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Reclaiming Power and Wellness: A Healing Justice Journey for LGBTQ2S BIPOC Folx

Unmasking School Censorship: Crafting Powerful Messages for LGBTQI+ Inclusion

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Unpacking Racism

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Sexual Liberation and Performance Arts

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Showing Up in Solidarity: Defending LGBTQ and DEI Spaces on Campus

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Yall Means All - Justice Work in Conservative Climates

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Survivors of Sexual and Domestic Violence

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SPECIAL EVENTS Listings are subject to change. Please refer to the Creating Change 2024 Conference mobile app for most current dates and times.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 16 FIRST TIMERS’ ORIENTATIONS 4:00pm – 5:00pm 6:00pm – 7:00pm Fulton Room, 3rd Floor First time at Creating Change? Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the amount of information? Want some help deciding how to spend your time? Come to the First Timers’ Orientation Session and get the tips you need from Task Force staff. Get your questions answered by the experts!

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17 GAYME ROOM & NIGHTS Jefferson Room, 3rd Floor Wednesday, January 17, 12:00pm – 10:00pm Thursday, January 18, 12:00pm – 10:00pm Friday, January 19, 12:00pm – 10:00pm Saturday, January 20, 12:00pm – 10:00pm Welcome to the Gayme Room at Creating Change hosted by Charlotte Gamers Network. Our dedicated alcohol-free space will be filled with 10 video game consoles, and a tabletop game library of 50 games.

Our prize games include one night of Drag Bingo featuring Onya Nerves and RC Cola, and one night of Jackbox. Prizes courtesy of Power to the Meeple, and David Pettifer of Bored Wreckers Inc. Karaoke will also be available. Hours and game schedule available in the Jefferson Ballroom.

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Play with sensory experiences where some may include tea-time offering, time with live plants and dry herbs, a community altar, soft landings on pillows and blankets, and engagement with music, sound, and silence. We uplift the role of practice as a vital ingredient for transformation and invite engagement to experiment with intuition toning, relationship training, adaptation, collective grieving, and release.

In alignment disability justice principles, the 8th House will practice universal masking. See more on our policies, offerings, and resources in the St. Charles Ballroom and at: https://linktr.ee/8thhousecc.

MANY PATHS GATHERING SPACE 8:00am – 11:00pm Kabacoff Room (Riverside Complex) The Many Paths Gathering Space is a welcoming, dedicated space for spiritual practice, ritual, reflection, support, connection, and breathing space for conference goe-ers of any or no spiritual path. Stop by for spiritual practice, to chat with a Spiritual Care Team member, or to just take a quiet break from the conference. All spiritual gatherings are open to all.

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The Many Paths Gathering Space will also hold space for daily Muslim prayers, oracle card readings, art as spiritual practice, and more. For more about the space and about the spiritual gatherings see the Creating Change app or visit ManyPathsGathering.com

SPECIAL EVENTS ART SPACE STUDIO – A QUEER CREATIVE SPACE 11:00am – 6:00pm Breezeway Corridor, 3rd Floor

been a better time to practice your flirtation skills.

You never know what might come of it!

Creating Change is thrilled to welcome you back to the Art Studio Space & Living Gallery in the fabulous Crescent City! Staffed once again by our incomparable ASS Crew (Tamara Galinsky; Jessica VonDyke; Ilene Goldstein; & Goddess Cecilia), we present to you a collaborative space in which to draw, paint, glue, sew, and weave your own personal experiences within the larger LGBTQ+ movement.

Here, you can explore your own whimsy, revel in creative, queer magic, or just relax and have some right-brained fun; the possibilities are endless and there’s no wrong way to do it--come on by and laissez le bon temps rouler!

OPENING CRUISE 10:00pm – 1:00am

Daunasia Yancey is a freedom fighter working towards the liberation of all oppressed peoples and the creation of a more just world. As a Black femme lesbian, sexual health educator, strategist and organizer, Daunasia exemplifies the best of Boston and has served as a leader in the LGBTQ+ community since she was young, having started the first gay straight alliance in a public middle school in Massachusetts in 2004. Daunasia responded to the call to action of the movement for Black lives and founded the Boston Black Lives Matter chapter in 2014. She organized mass mobilizations and direct actions and advocated for resources and policies to support Boston’s Black communities. Daunasia is a recipient of the Audre Lorde Founder’s Award from the Hispanic Black Gay Coalition (2016) and the Fueling the Frontlines Award from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice (2016). Daunasia started The Rest Rail in 2020 out of a commitment to changing the culture of social justice work by providing cost-free vacations to activists of color and imbedding rest and wellness in social justice movements. Daunasia currently serves as Community Relations Specialist for Boston’s Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ+ Advancement, which works to empower, protect and advance the rights, and dignity of all LGBTQ+ residents.

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Dr. Robin Nussbaum (Doc Rob) …

What’s the connection you won’t forget at Creating Change? The Sexual Liberation Collective and the Creating Change sex track organizers are delighted to bring you the Opening Cruise. Whether you’re looking to find a new friend, a sexy hook-up, or the love of your life, the Opening Cruise is the place to be! We cordially invite you to come and indulge in some flirty fun while meeting other arousing conference goers. The Opening Cruise is extremely sex-positive and extravagantly welcoming for everyone who wants to delight in the delicious diversity of available, brilliant, and adventurous Creating Changers. Your fun and frisky hosts will help move you through a modified speed greeting with prompts and icebreakers, so you can meet more cuties. Participation is flexible, and everyone is welcome to attend, inclusive of all identities and life experience. You’ll have a chance to name what you want and who you are, so let your imagination go wild. Come on! Be brave! Have fun! There has never

…is passionate about passion. Just kidding! —well sort of. Doc Rob does care deeply about social justice, sexual liberation, living into our deepest desires, and the right to self-determination for our bodies, identities and communities. They have been a queer activist and organizer for decades, as well as a sex educator and relationship skills instructor. In addition, Robin has become a leader in the polyamorous/non-monogamous community, helping folks learn relationship skills, navigate the complexity of myriad relationships, and advocating for recognition of polyamory/non-monogamy in the queer community. She has led the LGBT centers of several universities and now does diversity, equity, and inclusion work for organizations of all shapes, types, and sizes. They identify as a white, queer, pronoun-switching, genderqueer woman who is committed to anti-racism and ending oppression in all its forms.

CREATING CHANGE CONFERENCE DIRECTOR’S FEEDBACK SESSION 7:00pm - 8:00pm Churchill B, 2nd Floor Come prepared to share your thoughts, offer suggestions and help us continue doing what we are doing right, and share ideas for improvement! It’s all about useful, constructive feedback!

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SPECIAL EVENTS THURSDAY, JANUARY 18 MANY PATHS GATHERING SPACE 8:00am – 11:00pm

Here, you can explore your own whimsy, revel in creative, queer magic, or just relax and have some right-brained fun; the possibilities are endless and there’s no wrong way to do it--come on by and laissez le bon temps rouler!

Kabacoff Room (Riverside Complex) The Many Paths Gathering Space is a welcoming, dedicated space for spiritual practice, ritual, reflection, support, connection, and breathing space for conference goe-ers of any or no spiritual path. Stop by for spiritual practice, to chat with a Spiritual Care Team member, or to just take a quiet break from the conference. All spiritual gatherings are open to all.

Spiritual Gatherings •

Opening Night Christian Prayer

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Daily Morning Meditation

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Queer Communion

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Muslim Jumu’ah Prayer

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Shabbat Celebration

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Ancestor Circle

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Catholic Mass

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Pagan, Radical Faerie Heart Circle

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Sunday Interfaith Service (Grand Ballroom C- 1st Floor)

The Many Paths Gathering Space will also hold space for daily Muslim prayers, oracle card readings, art as spiritual practice, and more. For more about the space and about the spiritual gatherings see the Creating Change app or visit ManyPathsGathering.com HIV TESTING 11:00am – 5:00pm Churchill A1, 2nd Floor Testing made possbile by AIDS United.

ART SPACE STUDIO – A QUEER CREATIVE SPACE 11:00am – 6:00pm Breezeway Corridor, 3rd Floor Creating Change is thrilled to welcome you back to the Art Studio Space & Living Gallery in the fabulous Crescent City! Staffed once again by our incomparable ASS Crew (Tamara Galinsky; Jessica VonDyke; Ilene Goldstein; & Goddess Cecilia), we present to you a collaborative space in which to draw, paint, glue, sew, and weave your own personal experiences within the larger LGBTQ+ movement.

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8TH HOUSE WELLNESS SPACE 11:00am – 6:00pm St. Charles Ballroom, 3rd Floor Step into an oasis of your imagination, a haven within the conference dedicated to healing justice practice, integration, and rest. We invite you to delve into the intricate aspects of human experience represented in the 8th House of astrology: death, mental health, inheritances, taboos, and transformation. The 8th House serves as a refuge for collective exploration, where there is no wrong way to engage in healing. Come claim time and space for self at the 8th House; engage individually and/ or collectively. Let’s reject a one-size-fits-all model of care and ground our healing strategies in the wisdom of place and ancestral technologies.

Play with sensory experiences where some may include tea-time offering, time with live plants and dry herbs, a community altar, soft landings on pillows and blankets, and engagement with music, sound, and silence. We uplift the role of practice as a vital ingredient for transformation and invite engagement to experiment with intuition toning, relationship training, adaptation, collective grieving, and release.

In alignment disability justice principles, the 8th House will practice universal masking. See more on our policies, offerings, and resources in the St. Charles Ballroom and at: https://linktr.ee/8thhousecc.

CREATING CHANGE EPIC VARIETY SHOW 9:00pm – 12:00am Churchill B, 2nd Floor Creating Change 2024 Epic Variety Show! All CC24 attendees are welcome to participate. We are all talented! Performances can be a song, drag, burlesque, poem, comedy, secret talent, cheerleading, acrobatics, liberation themed, political theater, and more. Hosted by the fabulous Ariel Vegosen (Trixie Lamonte). All acts are 3 minutes long.

Sign up in advance - sign up is first come, first served.

We welcome the audience to come with an open mind, an excitement to cheer, and a desire to be entertained.

SPECIAL EVENTS Ariel Vegosen, Variety Show Organizer Ariel Vegosen (Trixie Lamonte) is the founder of Shine Diversity, a company that creates pathways to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion through trainings and consulting. Ariel is a professional workshop facilitator, writer, educator, consultant, coach, performer, and public speaker. For over 20 years Ariel has facilitated trainings, workshops, and retreats for organizations, corporations, nonprofits, schools, communities, and faith-based groups. This work has taken Ariel all over the US and internationally. Ariel is the founder of Gender Illumination, a non-profit dedicated to gender liberation with a specific focus of healing, leadership, mentorship, and ritual in the trans and non-binary community. Ariel is an ordained Kohenet Hebrew Priestess and ritualist. Ariel is the co-founder of Gender Blender and is well known for organizing safer sex consent-based play parties that center marginalized people. Ariel co-founded Queerdome - the first ever queer centered psychedelic harm reduction. Ariel offers relationship and confidence coaching through polyexcellent.com. Ariel’s work focuses on intersectionality, commitment to working from an anti-oppression lens, and creating communities across diverse cultural backgrounds.

Ariel loves to play with pronouns, gogo dance for justice, bring joy into all aspects of life, and creatively spark connections. Ariel has been attending and presenting at Creating Change for over 12 years and is excited to be MCing in 2024! Get in contact: avegosen@gmail.com

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19 8TH HOUSE WELLNESS SPACE 11:00am – 6:00pm St. Charles Ballroom, 3rd Floor Step into an oasis of your imagination, a haven within the conference dedicated to healing justice practice, integration, and rest. We invite you to delve into the intricate aspects of human experience represented in the 8th House of astrology: death, mental health, inheritances, taboos, and transformation. The 8th House serves as a refuge for collective exploration, where there is no wrong way to engage in healing. Come claim time and space

for self at the 8th House; engage individually and/ or collectively. Let’s reject a one-size-fits-all model of care and ground our healing strategies in the wisdom of place and ancestral technologies.

Play with sensory experiences where some may include tea-time offering, time with live plants and dry herbs, a community altar, soft landings on pillows and blankets, and engagement with music, sound, and silence. We uplift the role of practice as a vital ingredient for transformation and invite engagement to experiment with intuition toning, relationship training, adaptation, collective grieving, and release.

In alignment disability justice principles, the 8th House will practice universal masking. See more on our policies, offerings, and resources in the St. Charles Ballroom and at: https://linktr.ee/8thhousecc.

MANY PATHS GATHERING SPACE 8:00am – 11:00pm Kabacoff Room (Riverside Complex) The Many Paths Gathering Space is a welcoming, dedicated space for spiritual practice, ritual, reflection, support, connection, and breathing space for conference goe-ers of any or no spiritual path. Stop by for spiritual practice, to chat with a Spiritual Care Team member, or to just take a quiet break from the conference. All spiritual gatherings are open to all.

Spiritual Gatherings •

Opening Night Christian Prayer

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Daily Morning Meditation

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Queer Communion

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Muslim Jumu’ah Prayer

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Shabbat Celebration

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Ancestor Circle

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Catholic Mass

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Pagan, Radical Faerie Heart Circle

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Sunday Interfaith Service (Grand Ballroom C- 1st Floor)

The Many Paths Gathering Space will also hold space for daily Muslim prayers, oracle card readings, art as spiritual practice, and more. For more about the space and about the spiritual gatherings see the Creating Change app or visit ManyPathsGathering.com

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SPECIAL EVENTS ART SPACE STUDIO – A QUEER CREATIVE SPACE 11:00am – 6:00pm Breezeway Corridor, 3rd Floor

SOBER CURIOUS/AA SPACE 8:00pm – 9:00pm Grand Salon 6, 1st Floor

Creating Change is thrilled to welcome you back to the Art Studio Space & Living Gallery in the fabulous Crescent City! Staffed once again by our incomparable ASS Crew (Tamara Galinsky; Jessica VonDyke; Ilene Goldstein; & Goddess Cecilia), we present to you a collaborative space in which to draw, paint, glue, sew, and weave your own personal experiences within the larger LGBTQ+ movement.

Here, you can explore your own whimsy, revel in creative, queer magic, or just relax and have some right-brained fun; the possibilities are endless and there’s no wrong way to do it--come on by and laissez le bon temps rouler!

We aim to create a space for siblings in recovery or interested in this way of life, all programs welcomed, and newcomers and old timers welcomed. Creating Change can be overwhelming and at times triggering for some of us. One of the tools of recovery are meetings, please join us to continue sharing your experience, strength and hope with others.

HIV TESTING 11:00am – 5:00pm Churchill A1, 2nd Floor Testing made possbile by AIDS United.

MUSLIM PRAYER SERVICE 12:30pm – 1:30pm Kabacoff Room (Riverside Complex) Dedicated to Muslims who are lesbian, gay, bisexual. transgender, intersex, questioning, those exploring their sexual orientation or gender identity, and their allies, families and friends. All conference attendees are welcome.

SHABBAT SERVICE 7:00pm – 8:30pm Kabacoff Room (Riverside Complex) Join us as we come together as a community to welcome the Sabbath. No matter your background or religious affiliation, we invite you to a service filled with beautiful songs, heart filled prayers, a time for us to take a deep breath as we pause for Shabbos together. All conference attendees are welcome.

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AGENTS OF CHANGE MASQUERADE BALL 9:00pm – 1:00am Grand Ballroom B&C – 1st Floor The house/ballroom community stems from a place of resilience, strength, and survival of LGBT BIPOC in the US. During the 1940s Harlem Renaissance, elaborate pageants featuring Black and Latinx LGBT community members gave rise to what is known today as the house/ballroom community. In the 1970s and 80s, shaped greatly by economic, social and political forces, the first houses were created. Their structure stems from what we know best, families; mother, father, and of course, the children, each with their own talent, gift and personal struggle. Join us as we bring life and give LIFE to the ballroom community at the “Agents of Change - Masquerade Ball” (doors open at 8:00pm). All ages and gender expressions are welcome. Please keep reading and shadyness to a minimum.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20 8TH HOUSE WELLNESS SPACE 11:00am – 6:00pm St. Charles Ballroom, 3rd Floor Step into an oasis of your imagination, a haven within the conference dedicated to healing justice practice, integration, and rest. We invite you to delve into the intricate aspects of human experience represented in the 8th House of astrology: death, mental health, inheritances, taboos, and transformation. The 8th House serves as a refuge for collective exploration, where there is no wrong way to engage in healing. Come claim time and space for self at the 8th House; engage individually and/ or collectively. Let’s reject a one-size-fits-all model

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ART SPACE STUDIO – A QUEER CREATIVE SPACE 11:00am – 6:00pm Breezeway Corridor, 3rd Floor

Play with sensory experiences where some may include tea-time offering, time with live plants and dry herbs, a community altar, soft landings on pillows and blankets, and engagement with music, sound, and silence. We uplift the role of practice as a vital ingredient for transformation and invite engagement to experiment with intuition toning, relationship training, adaptation, collective grieving, and release.

In alignment disability justice principles, the 8th House will practice universal masking. See more on our policies, offerings, and resources in the St. Charles Ballroom and at: https://linktr.ee/8thhousecc.

Creating Change is thrilled to welcome you back to the Art Studio Space & Living Gallery in the fabulous Crescent City! Staffed once again by our incomparable ASS Crew (Tamara Galinsky; Jessica VonDyke; Ilene Goldstein; & Goddess Cecilia), we present to you a collaborative space in which to draw, paint, glue, sew, and weave your own personal experiences within the larger LGBTQ+ movement.

Here, you can explore your own whimsy, revel in creative, queer magic, or just relax and have some right-brained fun; the possibilities are endless and there’s no wrong way to do it--come on by and laissez le bon temps rouler!

MANY PATHS GATHERING SPACE 8:00am – 11:00pm Kabacoff Room (Riverside Complex)

SOBER CURIOUS/AA SPACE 8:00pm – 9:00pm Grand Salon 6, 1st Floor

The Many Paths Gathering Space is a welcoming, dedicated space for spiritual practice, ritual, reflection, support, connection, and breathing space for conference goe-ers of any or no spiritual path. Stop by for spiritual practice, to chat with a Spiritual Care Team member, or to just take a quiet break from the conference. All spiritual gatherings are open to all.

We aim to create a space for siblings in recovery or interested in this way of life, all programs welcomed, and newcomers and old timers welcomed. Creating Change can be overwhelming and at times triggering for some of us. One of the tools of recovery are meetings, please join us to continue sharing your experience, strength and hope with others.

Spiritual Gatherings •

Opening Night Christian Prayer

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Daily Morning Meditation

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Queer Communion

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Muslim Jumu’ah Prayer

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Shabbat Celebration

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Ancestor Circle

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Catholic Mass

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Pagan, Radical Faerie Heart Circle

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Sunday Interfaith Service (Grand Ballroom C- 1st Floor)

The Many Paths Gathering Space will also hold space for daily Muslim prayers, oracle card readings, art as spiritual practice, and more. For more about the space and about the spiritual gatherings see the Creating Change app or visit ManyPathsGathering.com

KIERRA’S KABARET: THE GOLD EXPERIENCE, CELEBRATING QUEER JOY 8:00pm – 12:00am St. James Ballroom, 3rd Floor Let’s see those fabulous gold outfits! Creating Change is committed to giving queer joy on the dance floor this year! Why? Because in the face of attacks on our community our collective and apologetic queer joy is a radical act of resistance!

The Task Force and Creating Change are committed to the work of advocacy and activism on behalf of the community, and at the same time, we celebrate our and embrace queer joy through dance, performance and song! New Orleans’ own DJ Char takes us on a queer and joyful journey! Live your life like it’s golden.

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SPECIAL EVENTS SUNDAY, JANUARY 21

RADICAL FUTURE FORWARD FAREWELL 10:30am - 12:00 noon

INTERFAITH SERVICE 8:30am - 10:00am

St. Charles Ballroom, 3rd Floor

Grand Ballroom C - 1st Floor As one of the closing events of Creating Change 2024, the Interfaith Service has become a highly anticipated event for people of faith and seekers of spiritual truth. All are invited to this celebration of inter-religious collaboration. In today’s polarized world, the quest for the sacred and the divine is even more essential. Come join clergy, lay leaders and practitioners of a myriad of faith traditions who draw strength from spirituality and community. All conference attendees are welcome. Organized by Interfaith Service Committee.

Join us for a fabulous farewell on Sunday as we bring Creating Change and the Task Force’s 50th anniversary to a close! We will meet up for coffee and some of New Orleans’ favorite confections!

CREATING CHANGE CONFERENCE DIRECTOR’S FEEDBACK SESSION 12:15pm - 1:15pm Fulton Room, 3rd Floor Come prepared to share your thoughts, offer suggestions and help us continue doing what we are doing right, and share ideas for improvement! It’s all about useful, constructive feedback!

TSC is happy to celebrate the 5th anniversary of our organizational launch Transgender Strategy Center (TSC) has granted over $2.5 million to organizations led by transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) leaders, with 98% of those being BIPOC-led. We have contributed over 2,500 hours of capacity coaching to TGNC-led organizations across the United States.

If you are seeking to strengthen TGNC leadership through capacity building, grantmaking, or trainings, reach out to info@transgenderstrategy.org to discuss your needs.

Mission

TSC is a national organization that centers economic and racial justice, authentic inclusion, and health equity for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) communities through capacity building and grantmaking.

Vision TSC envisions transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) liberation created by and for our communities.

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DAY LONG INSTITUTES January 18 and 19 Thursday, January 18 Asian American Institute The Asian American Institute invites people from the LGBTQIA+ Asian American diaspora to learn, share, and be in community. We will be focusing on capacity building of small, volunteer-run local, grassroots, and affinity-based groups. Presenters will share advocacy efforts within the LGBTQIA+ API movement that advance an intersectional equity and justice lens. Join us to cultivate meaningful connections with members and organizations of the LGBTQIA+ API movement community.

NBJC’s Black Institute: Owning Our Power Collectively, Communally, and Personally Join the National Black Justice Coalition for its annual signature event: the Black Institute @ Creating Change! The day-long institute is a Black-led and centered space for Black LGBTQ+/Same-Gender Loving leaders and emerging leaders nationwide that will inform, train, inspire, and mobilize our community ahead of the 2024 primary and general election. The theme for this year’s institute is “Owning Our Power,” in honor of NBJC’s 20 years of building, leveraging, and speaking truth to power on behalf of the Black LGBTQ+/SGL community. Attendees will spend the day sharing and learning new skills, resources, and information to effectively own their collective, communal, and personal power.

The Pasifika Institute This day-long Institute seeks to shift the emphasis of creating change from a decolonizing perspective to one that re-indigenizes shared spaces, fostering cultural understanding of the complexities of Pasifika indigenous identities, providing agency for Pasifika people in their cultural identities, strengthening 42

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community resiliency through stewarding ties to ancestral lands and our indigenous roots to mobilize advocates against the longstanding threats to the equity and inclusion of their families and respective communities that obstructs their path to wellness. We seek to introduce a transformative justice framework in creating this change by bringing attention to our voice, resilience, and dignity as a people. The Pasifika Institute will hold space for Pasifika 2SLGBTQIA+ and MVPFAFF+ (mahu, vakasalewalewa, palopa, fa’afafine, akava’ine, fakaleiti, or leiti, and fakafifine) community leaders and advocates from across the country and Oceania to reflect, rest, resist, and reinvigorate their commitment to our shared liberation.

Two Spirit Reclamation, Two Spirit Healing, Two Spirit Celebration Indigenized: Queer Power, Queer Action, Queer Joy Open to all Attendees: This day-long institute is an opportunity for LGBTQ+ Indigenous, Indigiqueer & Two Spirit people to share their experience & cultural importance with the broader LGBTQ+ community & would-be allies. Participants will learn, grow & cultivate cultural humility. Topics of interest include a digital decolonized tour of Bulbancha, local & national movement work, mutual aid, climate liberation, & a youth & elders panel! Euro settler descendants will yield to the Indigenous narrative.

Too often, settlers have spoken for Two Spirit people.

Our voices have been silenced in the past. Two Spirit people have reclaimed their narratives and speak for themselves in these sessions. As Indigenous people, we are taught that listening is the way to learn. This institute will provide settlers the opportunity to listen and to learn so that by knowing who we are, respect will emerge. In this way, we can all create authentic change.

The Creating Change Indigenous Leadership Planning Committee recognizes the term Indigenous includes people of many nations, including those outside of Turtle Island or what is called the United States, North, Central & South America. Presenters in this day-long institute primarily reflect those from North “American” territories & are the gathered knowledge of the individual and are not to be understood as a copy/ paste culture for all indigenous lives.

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The Fund for Trans Generations and Borealis Philanthropy Presents: Queering Philanthropy – A Mission to Resource Past Resilience The Fund for Trans Generations and Spark Justice Fund are curating a day of philanthropic solidarity and transformative skill share at the 2024 Creating Change Conference. In the first half of the Institute, participants will experience a Philanthropy 101 Intensive, meant to spark their growth in fund development and quality grant writing. The second part of our day will feature panels of philanthropic leaders, change makers, and donors sharing their perspectives on philanthropic trends, the culture of trans funding, and what funders are seeking as we head into an election year while experiencing life-shifting policies regarding race, mutual aid movements, gender affirming care, reproductive care access, housing insecurity, and environmental justice.

All participants will leave the Institute with a starter list of 2024 rapid response funds as well as open funding calls curated by Borealis Philanthropy and our community partners.

Unión=Fuerza Latinx Institute Join us for Unión=Fuerza Latinx Institute, the only annual national gathering of Latinx LGBTQ people, allies, and organizations working toward our collective liberation in the U.S. and the advancement of LGBTQ Latinx power and activism. This bilingual one-day

event is part training, part strategy session, part network building, and part PARTY! Unión=Fuerza is a celebration of our rich cultural traditions, which also will provoke conversations on issues critical to our communities and emerging, innovative policy discussions. Attendees include community advocates, leaders, students, academics, government officials, artists, and more! This will be our seventh institute.

We are committed to inter-generational interactions from grassroots to grasstops; and prioritizing underrepresented populations such as transgender people, Afro-Latinxs, undocumented individuals, women, youth, families and allies, for example. For more information, visit: www.UnionFuerza.org.

White People’s Institute for Ending Racism: Building an Imagination Machine The #CC24 White People’s Institute for Ending Racism will focus on collective liberation, principled struggle, and community care.

Collective Liberation calls us to stop taking pleasure in one another’s pain. Come find your place in the universe of the movement toward justice: join us for a day filled with deepening our practice for principled struggle while we recline in joy and authentic selfreflection. We will improve our ability to welcome more white people into action, envision our collective and individual antiracist paths forward, and center compassion, accountability, and pleasure. This year’s Institute will be an immersive experience.

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Friday, January 19 “Act Out!” Young People Fight Back Against LGBTQ Attacks Attacks on trans and queer youth at the state, local, and school board levels are endangering LGBTQ+ young people. But young people are fighting back!

Led by youth activists and Advocates for Youth staff, this institute is designed to support young people ages 13-24 with all levels of organizing experiences to learn about policies, gain organizing tools, and build a network of young LGBTQ+ activists. We’re ready to ACT OUT! for equality, justice, and safety!

Beyond Stigma: Decriminalizing Sex Work In this Institute, we will foster an open and informed discussion about the decriminalization of sex work. It aims to challenge societal stigmas and misconceptions surrounding sex work while highlighting the potential benefits of decriminalization for the individuals involved in the industry. By promoting understanding, empathy, and evidence-based approaches to policymaking in relation to sex work, the Institute seeks to create a safe and inclusive space for dialogue. It is designed for a diverse audience, including policymakers, activists, researchers, community leaders, and individuals interested in learning more about the topic. Participants can expect to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities surrounding sex work, engage in critical discussions, and explore potential pathways toward decriminalization that prioritize the rights, safety, and well-being of sex workers.

Bi Ourselves: Combatting Bi+ Isolation for Stronger Liberation Movements Every year, various bi+/mspec activists host the Bi+ Institute and facilitate discussions around various issues that deeply affect the bi+/mspec community.

One of the things that comes up often both in our activities and in statistics is the social, economic, and political isolation that many bi+/mspec people experience. This isolation fractures our community and, in turn, stifles real movement work, both within and beyond bi+ culture creation and grassroots organizing. We hope to build on the work of previous 44

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This day-long institute caters to, and centers people attracted to multiple (a)genders, but monosexual/ romantic people/our allies are VERY STRONGLY encouraged to attend and learn. We WANT to collaborate with you!

Digital Strategy Training Institute At the thirteenth annual Digital Strategy Training Institute (DSTI), you will spend a day engaging with a range of experts about the latest digital tools and online advocacy strategies that you can incorporate into your work. You will discover new social and paid media tools that are appropriate for your budget, get the latest new media trends, be trained on rapid response tactics, and learn how to implement accessible brands and web design. Lastly, through open discussion, we will help each other develop creative solutions to the challenges your organization is facing today.

Executive Director and CEO Institute The Institute is for people who serve as executive directors or chief executives of nonprofit organizations only. The purpose is to create a brave space for organizational leaders to gain peer support, share resources, and discuss opportunities for collaboration within the movement. The agenda for the Institute will be designed in real-time with the participants in the room to ensure the day is responsive to attendees’ needs.

Faith Institute As political activists and faith leaders, we have skills for taking on the responsibility of supporting people through experiences of harm in the world and supporting people to clarify pathways for activism.

The Faith Institute offers an opportunity to share our experiences and skills in an interfaith context.

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Living, Learning, and Growing Across Generations LGBTQ+ people of all ages and cultures have struggled with social isolation during the past few years, yet we have shown our resiliency by pushing forward. Each of us can collaborate in creating a world that thrives on social inclusiveness, belonging, empathy, and understanding across generations.

For decades, activists have marched and shouted on the front lines to challenge the notions of LGBTQ+ discrimination and dismantle systemic and structural racism. Intergenerational programming and advocacy efforts with diverse people of various ages help reduce alienation, disrupt ageism, and increase awareness of civil rights and LGBTQ+ history. With an aim to create a shared space for LGBTQ+ people of all ages and cultural diversity, we’ll delve into the challenges and rewards of living, learning, and growing together.

The Intergenerational Institute will feature LGBTQ+ leaders and activists from across the country sharing about Careers in LGBTQ+ Aging for Young Professionals, HIV and Aging, Intersections of Neurodivergence, LGBTQ+ and Age, Innovations in LGBTQ+ Equity, and Connecting Across the Generations. Participants will engage in conversations and skills-building activities to share their stories of resilience, equity, and intergenerational communitybuilding successes and learn about advocacy initiatives that uplift and strengthen our community.

POZ-ing the Movement This institute is an opportunity for people living with HIV who aspire to nurture their talents and connect with a supportive community space. The institute will offer a blend of workshops and wellness activities aimed at enhancing our organizing and advocacy skills while discussing solutions to the challenges we face. We will also take the time to slow down and take care of our bodies and minds. The program will cover the latest innovations in education, advocacy, and outreach, and you will get a chance to connect with dynamic faculty members from communities living with and affected by HIV. Join us for this unique chance to develop new skills, establish meaningful connections, and find support and care in a safe environment.

Queer Climate Justice As climate chaos escalates, LGBTQ+ people, especially QTBIPOC and people with disabilities, are among those communities hit first and worst.

LGBTQ+ people also have a unique knowledge of what it takes to change, transition, and survive.

Join us to discuss community responses to recent environmental disasters and unpack our role in the Just Transition towards life-affirming economies for people and the planet.

Sex. HEAL. Action!

As attacks on sexuality and bodily autonomy continue to dominate the national stage, it is time to build a different relationship with our bodies, sex, and sexuality. “Sex, HEAL, Action!” is an interactive, activity-packed institute where you get to ask questions like, “Why do I fear my fantasies?” or “When did I learn to be ashamed of my desires?”

Exploring your path, we offer a model for sexual healing (for everyone) that launches from personal discovery into the political work of sexual liberation.

Join us and bring your curiosity, your open heart, and your passion for rethinking everything you know about sex! Learn more at heal2end.org

The Gender to Prison Pipeline: The Impact of Mass Incarceration of Black Trans Women and Girls Returning to Creating Change for the second year, this Institute will create a space for Black Trans Women and Girls, and those who want to be in solidarity with us, as we seek liberation using the Gender to Prison Pipeline executive summary. This Institute will be an opportunity to learn, ask questions without shame, and elevate shared learning with the belief that we will then be best positioned to implement radical and transformative change as a community.

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Transcending Together: Exploring Transgender Lived Experiences and Advocacy The purpose of the institute is to have intentional and solution-based conversations that focus on a range of topics that impact the most marginalized communities of transgender, non-binary, and intersex people. This institute will provide a platform for community members, advocates, and allies to exchange ideas and discuss lived experiences and the current needs of TGNC and intersex people on the ground in local Louisiana areas and other surrounding southern states. The sessions within the institute are also designed to recognize and celebrate the intersectional experiences within the transgender community by creating an inclusive, diverse, and empowering space where individuals can explore their identities, tell their stories, access resources, and foster community connections that acknowledge transgender people’s complexity, joy and strength.

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What in the L?!: All Things Lesbian Can we talk about All Things Lesbian?! Join us for a healthy exchange of information that will educate, empower, and uplift all participants. Women from varying demographics are invited and encouraged to take part in the conversation.

We will celebrate the things that bind us together and discuss those issues that divide us, all in the spirit of bridging the gap. All lesbian-identified persons are welcome. This Institute will engage participants in a lively discussion about diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the lesbian community – highlighting healthcare, language, movement building, and much more! The Institute will convene lesbian women who identify across the gender expression spectrum, age, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds to discuss current issues that are affront in the lesbian community. Participants will come together in a safer space to discuss personal experiences and make action plans to further the growth and progress of our often-invisible lesbian community. You will come away from the Institute with personal and organizational action plans to help ensure full inclusion of all lesbian women regardless of gender expression, gender identity, age, and more.

Queering Faith at Creating Change It’s more than a welcoming space.

We’re showing how queer liberation and religious freedom are interconnected and strengthen each other.

Practice Spirit, Do Justice Practice Spirit, Do Justice is the faith track of Creating Change, offering workshops, caucuses, the Many Paths Gathering Space, the Faith Institute, and the Sunday Interfaith Service.

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Stop by for spiritual practice, to chat with a Spiritual Care Team member, or to just take a quiet break from the conference.

Spiritual Gatherings • Opening Night Christian Prayer • Daily Morning Meditation • Queer Communion • Muslim Jumu’ah Prayer • Shabbat Clelebration • Ancestor Circle • Catholic Mass • Pagan, Radical Faerie Heart Circle • Sunday Interfaith Service

Faith Institute As political activists and faith leaders, we have skills for taking on the responsibility of supporting people through experiences of harm in the world and supporting people to clarify pathways for activism. The Faith Institute offers an opportunity to share our experience and skills in an interfaith All spiritual gatherings are open to all. context.

Many Paths Gathering Space Kabacoff Room (Riverside Complex) The Many Paths Gathering Space is a welcoming, dedicated space for spiritual practice, ritual, reflection, support, connection, and breathing space, for conference-goers of any or no spiritual path. The room is open Wednesday through Saturday, 8am to 11pm.

The Many Paths Gathering Space will also hold space for daily Muslim prayers, oracle card readings, art as spiritual practice, and more. For more about the space and about the spiritual gatherings listed above, see the Creating Change app or visit: ManyPathsGathering.com

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TASK FORCE DONORS Leadership Council We extend a heartfelt thanks to our Leadership Council members for their continued support of the Task Force and the Task Force Action Fund. Leadership Council members make an annual gift of $1,500 or more and give the Task Force the flexibility to build grassroots LGBTQ political power across the nation. If we have inadvertently omitted or incorrectly listed your name, please contact Jacky Goh, Chief Development Officer, at jgoh@thetaskforce.org Leadership Council Donors as of June 30, 2023

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Advocate’s Circle $2,500.00 + John M. Allen & Stephen P. Orlando Jerry S. Chasen & Mark Kirby William H. Dollaway & Glenn Barcheski Dennis Edwards & Mark Steinberg Donald J. Hayden & Brian H. Thompson Steven C. Hill & Jonathan A. Herz Robert R. McCrae & William Newhall Raj Mirchandani & Dianne Palermo Hez G. Norton & Arrington Chambliss Joan L. Schaeffer & Roberta Mandel Deric Walters & Jesse Lehrhoff Delegate’s Circle $1,500.00 + Juan J. Battle & Michael D. Bennett David S. Berg & Laura Butzel Robin M. Bergen & Janine Hackett Michael L. Curtis & Eric F. Thom J B. Guess & Jim R. Therrien Cindy Houston & Rete Carie Richard Lynch & Frank Steil Daniel Marinberg & Carlos H. Canasi Douglas Mateyaschuk II & Evan Wolfe Albert R. McMeen III & James Davis Naomi E. Metz & Jennifer Foley

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Thank you to our Institutional Donors!

President’s Circle ($100,000+) Anonymous The Arcus Foundation The Ford Foundation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Executive Circle ($25,000.00 + ) CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr., Fund / Progressive Multiplier Fund Freeman Foundation Hilton Worldwide Justworks Kaiser Permanente Laughing Gull Foundation Pop Culture Collaborative Satterberg Foundation United Church of Christ Ambassador’s Circle ($10,000.00 + ) Actblue Civics, Inc. AIDS United Comcast Corporation Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr., Fund

Everytown for Gun Safety Fetzer Institute G Foundation/Warten Foundation Hispanic Federation Irving Harris Foundation Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. Rutgers Presbyterian Church The Johnson Family Foundation Tzedek Social Justice Fund Working Assets / Credo Mobile Director’s Circle ($5,000.00 + ) Amazon Inc. Firefly Partners Funders for LGBTQ Issues Leonard Litz Foundation Pisces Foundation The Tides Foundation The Trevor Project, Inc. Winston & Strawn Advocate’s Circle ($2,500.00 + ) American Federation of Teachers AFT Americans United for Separation of Church and State Anonymous Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Hustle, Inc. National Domestic Workers Alliance San Francisco Pride Delegate’s Circle ($1,500.00 + ) The Harrington Agency New Venture Fun

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TASK FORCE DONORS The Task Force thanks the following people for naming the Task Force as a beneficiary in their estate planning.

Legacy Circle David I. Abramson Jake Arnell Michael Bath Jillian K. S. Bishop David A. Bjork & Jeff L. Bengtson Marsha C. Botzer & Kimberly Harms Thomas Boyd Matthew Brown & Wayne Chang Herman J. Brown-Stepan Jennifer M. Buchwald Margaret A. Burd & Rebecca Brinkman Susan Burnside Bradley R. Carlson Julie A. Childs & Sara Speargas Candy S. Cox & Debra L. Peevey David E. Dassey Donald Davis George J. DeBolt Craig M. Desoer Sarah A. Douglas Ross Draegert Sabrina K. Duckett Bert Easter & Ed Madden Victoria K. Elliott York Nina Feirer Charles M. Fink & Leonard Jones Liebe & Seth Gadinsky Stephen A. Glassman Joe Goenaga Mary E. Harper & Marigene Arnold Dr. Daniel A. Harris & Jane Buttars John Hubschmitt Rachel Hurst Kent J. Johnson & Cody Blomberg Dr. Ronald Kendall & Harold Kendall Linda Ketner Harold D. Kooden PhD & John Hunter PhD Brianna J. M. Lambert Marilyn Lamkay

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Peggy Lipschultz David Littell & Edward Selekman Lester H. London Alyxia D. Loney Ed Madden & Bert Easter Donna Marburger Barbara Brown & Sandy Delegal Sean Melton Naomi E. Metz & Jennifer Foley Robert F. Miailovich Erik Morin & Luis Calderon James Nonnemaker Lee Ormsbee Austin L. Parrow Martin C. Patterson John Perez Addison T. Pressley Ken Ranftle & Craig Leiby Sayre E. Reece & Kathleen Campisano Charles W. Robbins & Damon Romine Anthony Rominske Russell D. Roybal Jennifer A. Santana Heather C. Sargeant J Schmidt Marianne G. Seggerman Andrew Sendall Elliott R. Sernel & Larry Falconio Larry Siegel Andrew Solomon & John Habich Solomon Robert J. Starshak, M.D. & Ross Draegert William J. Stein Loet VanDerveen & George Burton Scott J. M. Weber Harry K. Willwater & Hal L. Barker Douglas Wingo & Timothy Legg Benton Wong Beth L. Zemsky & Chris Heeter Daniel R. Zillmann Harvey Zuckman & Phil E. Oxman

Estate of Alan Ace Clarence E Anderson Living Trust Barckley Family Trust Estate of William Bebermeyer Estate of Frawley Becker Estate of Bertram H. Behrens Estate of Em Olivia Bevis Bisordi-Schofield Revocable Trust Estate of LeClair Bissell Estate of Shirley Brodigan Estate of Phillip A. Bulliner Estate of John L. Chamness, Jr. Estate of Stephen D. Clover Estate of Gerald & Veronica Colfer Estate of Daniel Cook & Herbert I. Cohen Estate Of Winifred Cottrel Estate Of James A. Davidson Estate of Mark Deggendorf Estate of James N. Devillier Estate of Alice Dyer Estate of Orton L. Ehrlinger Estate of Jonathan Elwell Estate of Luke F. Farrell Estate of John P. Fludas Estate of Richard FremontSmith Estate of Brook Glaefke Estate of John R. Harper Estate of Finas Harris Estate of Sheila Healy Estate Of John R. Hoffman Estate Of Richard Homan Estate of Earle Raymond Hopkins Estate of Diane M. Hopsia Estate of Darrill Hudson Estate of Steven D. Kaeser Estate of Robert L. Kehoe Estate of Kenneth E. Kesselring Estate of Kayeton J. Kurowski Estate of Alfred W. Lees Estate of Craig H. Lindhurst

Estate of Dr Norma Jack Lindsey James W. Lundberg Philanthropic Trust Edith MacGuire Charitable Trust Estate of Joseph J. Maio Estate Of Wayne McCaughan Estate of Rita A. McGaughey Estate of Lawrence J. Messenger Estate of Henry D. Messer Estate of James Morris Estate of George Nemeth Estate of Fleet E. Nuttall Estate Of John O’Leary Estate of Julia Lorillard Pell Estate of David Lee Peterson Estate of Neil B.Pomerenke Estate of Roger A. Riege Estate of James E. Rolls Estate of Lee S Ross Estate of Harry R. Rowe, M.D. Estate of William A.K. Ryan Estate of Kenneth Sancier Estate of Harry Seagal Estate of Karl-Ludwig Selig Estate Of Dale Norris Shaw Estate of James J. Stroumbos Estate Of James L. Tanner Estate of Marc A. Triebwasser Estate of John Tynes Estate of Henry van Ameringen Estate of Josef Van Der Kar Estate of Donald E. Watson Estate of Ric Weiland Estate of Jeffrey E. White Estate of Robert S. White Estate of Walt Witcover Estate of Jacob Lee Withers, Jr. Estate of Craig J. Witt Estate of Roy Glenn Wood Estate of James B. Wozniak Estate of Morgan Young Estate of William Zilko Estate of Jaroslav E. Zivney

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The National LGBTQ Task Force builds the power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community from the ground up. The Task Force is the country’s premier social justice organization fighting to improve the lives of LGBTQ people, and working to create positive, lasting change and opportunity for all. Founded 1973 www.theTaskForce.org

BOARDS OF DIRECTORS - NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE Co-Chair Erik Richard Morin Miami, FL

Co-Chair Rodney McKenzie, Jr.

Candy Cox

Washington, DC

Miles Huff

Dr. Anika Simpson

Sian Lewis

Andrew Solomon

David Pérez

Kim Stone

Jeremy Rye

Kevin Wang

Chattanooga, TN

Vanessa Daniel Tacoma, WA

Washington, DC

Brooklyn, NY

Alfredo Del Cid

Treasurer Colgate Darden

Liebe Gadinsky

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Miami Beach, FL

San Francisco, CA

Dr. Jerry Abraham

Minneapolis, MN

T. Aaron Hans

Candelario Saldana

Donald Hayden

Almas Sayeed

San Francisco, CA

Los Angeles, CA

Peter Chandler

Washington, DC New York, NY Miami, FL

Washington, DC

Seattle, WA

Charlotte, NC

Miami, FL

Los Angeles, CA

Washington, DC

BOARDS OF DIRECTORS - NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE ACTION FUND Chair Juan Peñalosa Miami Beach, FL

Secretary/Treasurer Peter Chandler

Pamela Coleman

Jeremy Rye

Santa Fe, NM

San Francisco, CA

Colgate Darden

Andrew Solomon

Miami Beach, FL

New York, NY

Washington, DC

NATIONAL ACTION COUNCIL Over the years, the Task Force has had many incredible advocates and supporters who are committed to helping us achieve our mission of building grass-roots power for the LGBTQ community. Our National Action Council recognizes these individuals.

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John M. Allen

Donald E. Davis

Jon B. Hoadley

Mark M. Sexton

Susan E. Anderson

Victor E. Diaz-Herman

Jody Laine

Jeffrey Z. Slavin

Anthony Aragon

Ruth Eisenberg

Cordey R. Lash

Michelle Stecker

Alan Bernstein

James M. Foreman

Naomi E. Metz

Kenneth B. Thompson

Marsha C. Botzer

William Forrest

Sandra Y. Nathan, PhD

Alfonso Wenker

David Bowers

Ruben J. Gonzales

Shilpen Patel, MD

Vince Wong

Margaret A. Burd

Kevin D. Gonzalez

Chad Richter

Beth L. Zemsky

Yuval David

Mario Guerrero

Lee Rubin

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STAFF - NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE Executive

Allen Morris

Development

Executive Director She/They

Elijah Nichols

Chief Development Officer She/Her

Wayne Rocque

Institutional & Corporate Giving Manager He/Him

Tiffany Tran

Events Director He/Him

Kierra Johnson

Firat Demir

Executive Assistant to the Executive Director He/Him

Sayre Reece

Deputy Director, Strategic Advancement They/Them

Advocacy & Action

Clermon E. Acklin, III

Federal Regulatory Counsel He/Him

Court Betro

Creating Change Conference Organizer She/They

Rev. Nicole M. Garcia Faith Work Director She/Her

Policy Director He/His/Gladiator Field Organizer She/Her/They/Them Civic Engagement Manager He/Him/They/Them Senior Legislative Manager She/Her

Taylor Keta Biro

Foundation Giving Officer She/They

Director of Communications She/Her

Brian Marone

Cathy Renna

Benjamin Coy

Communications and Marketing Campaign Manager He/They

Danny Linden

Reese Rathjen

Daniel Moberg

Dee Tum-Monge

Assistant Creating Change Conference Director He/Him

Michael Bath

Ryan Hurst

Andrea Durojaiye

Director of Creating Change He/Him

Jake Arnell

Communications, Marketing and Branding

Rae Leiner

Field Director They/Them/Theirs

Jacqueline “Jacky” Goh

Membership Manager She/They Digital Fundraising Manager He/Him Senior Communications Manager They/Them/Elle

Marketing and Fundraising Manager He/Him Special Events Manager He/Him

Kimberly Otero

Special Events Coordinator She/Her

Cary Webb

Development Associate She/Her

Diversity, People and Culture Alicia Boykins

Deputy Director, Diversity, People & Culture She/They

Dana Riceel

People & Culture Manager She/Her

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If you don’t count us, we don’t count.

Incomplete data can be tools of oppression.

When LGBTQ people are left uncounted for decades at a time, we are left without the power to demand what our communities need.

That’s why we’re calling to...

Queer the Census, NOW! In advance of the 2030 census, we will continue to partner with the U.S. Census Bureau to ensure that the LGBTQ community and other marginalized Americans are counted—which as we know has tremendous implications for reapportionment (i.e., the number of seats that each state has in Congress) and redistricting processes.

Scan the code to join in as we gear up for the 2030 Census:

thetaskforce.org/programs/queering-dem ocracy/queer-the-census/

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PROUD TO SUPPORT

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