Community Conversations, 2024-2025
Transgender, nonbinary, gender diverse people, their loved ones, and allies are invited to Empowered to Advocate!
The Womxn Project Education Fund, Youth Pride RI, Thundermist, The South County Huddle, Newport Pride, and other organizations are working together to create a series of programs planned and taught by people in the community on how to come together to create a network of inclusion and support.
Participants will learn how to promote public policies supportive of trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse people in their local communities as well as how to stand up to evolving hate groups. You'll also learn how to promote public policies supportive of trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse people at the local and state level
The Empowered to Advocate Series is either in the form of a community conversation which is about 1 hour or the larger programs in Narragansett and Woonsocket being 2 hours.
Participant Resources
If you're interested in more resources after joining an Empowered to Advocate program with us, we've got you covered!
Resource Guide
This link is a library of links to topics and information we covered in our Community Conversation, kind of like one stop shopping.
It can further help you to promote public policies supportive of trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse people in your local communities, meet organizations that locally and statewide that are tools for success for you, and information to help you engage in your local politics, from the safety of your own home.
(Video) The People's House, An Accessible Guide (7 min)
This video will walk you through where to park, how to enter the RI State House if you are using a mobility assistance device or just regularly entering. It points out bathrooms placement and where to find the wifi data. While the RI State House does not have a gender neutral bathroom, this video points you to where the closest one is and how to get there.
Community Collaborators
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Local Organizing
Policy and bill proposals that harm the dignity, safety, freedom of vulnerable members of our communities, including LGBTQ+ people, are on the rise. Rhode Island is often thought of as a safe state, but it is not immune from these far-right attacks. They are often presented as means to ‘protect children’, or ‘protect parents’, but, in reality, enforce a singular view of the world on everyone.
We have to keep showing up at the ballot box, the State House, in small town school boards and town councils, and much more because our opposition is there.
People who support a more just Rhode Island are the majority, but if the minority is LOUD and willing to do the work, then all our rights, health and well-being are at risk. JOIN US
