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Help Keep MN Trans and Gender Expansive Camp Accessible!
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Trans and Gender Expansive Camp is a 3-day intergenerational gathering for trans and gender-expansive adults to rest, build community, and find trans joy in the woods of northern Minnesota. We need financial support from the community to keep Trans and Gender Expansive Camp accessible by providing ASL interpreters, covering lodging fees, and providing communal meals.
This will be the second annual Trans and Gender Expansive Camp. Feedback from last year's event showed the joy and rest that folks found from spending 3 days in community together:
"Thank you for providing the interpreters! It helped ease the communication anxiety that I often experience when interacting with hearing people."
"Rather than being in trans space for a few hours and then immediately having to go back to the "regular world", I got to rest in this joyful trans community for long enough to really let my guard down and experience a level of safety and comfort that's really rare for me to feel."
"During the first community meal at camp I realized this was the biggest all-trans group I had ever been in. I felt so much more confident than I usually do in a large group."
"I got to have some really validating and empowering conversations with folks who had very similar experiences to me."
This event is a huge lift for our volunteer organizing team of trans and gender expansive folks, and we are counting on community support to make another year of Trans and Gender Expansive Camp a reality. With your help we plan to offer campers:
- Comfortable lodging at Camp One Heartland in Willow River, MN
- Participant-led activities including crafts, bonfires, stargazing, board games, fishing, hiking and discussion groups
- Communal meals provided by Camp One Heartland
- ASL interpretation throughout the weekend, so that we have language access for Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and hearing participants in every activity
- Transportation assistance and carpools, so that traveling through rural MN does not present a financial or safety barrier
Thank you!
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Organizer
Robin Mercer-Taylor
Organizer
Minneapolis, MN