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Hello folks! . As you may have heard, we’re planning a super exciting project around navigating barbershops. In preparation for the event, we are raffling off a free haircut for a trans, non-binary, or gender-expansive youth between the ages of 13 - 21 within Bay Area, California. The haircut could be anything of your choice and will be done by the awesome @anniemalstyle from @30svn ! . Because the haircut will be during an Instagram Live session, we do ask that you are comfortable being filmed. Also, if you are under 18, you will need to have your parents permission to participate. This raffle will open for one week! To enter this raffle, please do the following for our IG account and @gender_spectrum: . - Like this post - Tag two friends - Following our IG account and @gender_spectrum . Can’t wait to hear from you all! — view on Instagram http://bit.ly/2X70kit

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Hello Across Gender Family! _ I am back and just in time for the holiday season! First and foremost, THANK YOU, thank you for your patience and continual support. 💕 _ With the holidays around the corner Across Gender will be doing a Holiday Giveaway! 🎁 This giveaway is an opportunity to receive basic transitional items. The recipient will be announced on Christmas Day! 🎄 _ To apply please visit acrossgender.com. You will find the link under our “All About Youth” project. _ Also with the new year coming up, what do you want to see next year? What's services do you need? Please communicate with us on how Across Gender can better serve you in 2019! Feel free to drop a comment below, direct message, or email. _ With love, William hearts💞 _ #transthriving #acrossgender #transgenderyouth #transgenderpride #trans #transgender #gendernonconforming #nonbinary #genderqueer #tpoc #qpoc #transpeopleofcolor #transwomanofcolor #transmenofcolor #ftm #mtf #transmen #transwoman #transpeople #transisbeautiful #transvisibility #visability #representation #transrepresentation #genderspectrum #genderexpression #giveaway #holiday — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2QGUG7S

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Hello everyone! As of September to November 2018, Across Gender will take a quick hiatus. This post is me being transparent with where we’re at and what to expect. Since our launch, about seven months ago, we've been involved in seven wonderful projects! Making it a project a month— wow, amazing, I’m still in shock! _ As you all may know, we are a small team of three people, and all of us are still trying to balance work, school, and self-care. For me, alongside work and a new living situation, I am hoping to graduate from my grad program this upcoming November, which means school and workload are becoming very demanding of my time. The degree I’m working towards is not only a personal milestone but also one I know that will open many doors for the future of Across Gender and my involvement with my TPOC and GNCPOC community. _ I’ve put Across Gender on pause because I do not want to pursue any future projects with mediocrity. All past projects were done wholeheartedly with intent, purpose, and focus. I plan to continue to implement that same drive, and more, to our future projects. Once school is finished, I can dedicate even more of my time to expanding the horizons of Across Gender’s potential. _ As always, thank you all for your patience and support. When we come back, we’ll be ready to kick everything into new gears. Until then, much love everyone. _ With love, William — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2D386EH

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Want to share your story? Join Across Gender in our Trans(cending) Faces Project! Submit your story today (written, audio, or video)! _ Why share your story? Sharing your story can help others.  Stories can be very healing and a positive power on others. Resilience is strengthened by recognizing that we are all experts in our own lives and we all have something to share with others. 🤝 Finding your voice Sharing your story not only helps others, but you as well. It’s an opportunity to expressing yourself, but to also learn about what events happened in your life in a way that makes sense to you. We all have had our struggles, but it through our adversities that enable us to grow and become resilient. 🗣 Finding peace, finding hope People who have found their voice and shared their story often find a sense of peace and a hopefulness that they did not have before. Our hope is this project brings you and others peace and hope. _ Ways to submit your story:  IG DM: DM your story Email: acrossgender@gmail.com  Website: acrossgender.com/transcending-faces — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2Or8cHi

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Have you had a time when you thought similarly to this? Please feel free to comment some helpful advice or guidance to your fellow peers going through the same thing! _ If you are interested in submitting a trans-related question, send us a direct message and we will post it on our profile anonymously. _ Disclaimer: although we encourage peer-to-peer advice, be advised that the advice provided by the community are purely informational and should not be relied upon as medical advice. — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2Mdn4vz

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Do you have experience or knowledge regarding this question? Help your fellow peers and answer below. We want this to be a safe space for folx to ask questions. We hope this will encourage folx to engage in communication and help one another. 💞 _ If you are interested in submitting a trans-related question, send us a direct message and we will post it on our profile anonymously. _ Disclaimer: although we encourage peer-to-peer advice, be advised that the advice provided by the community are purely informational and should not be relied upon as medical advice. — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2n7xAX1

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On Sunday, August 26th, Across Gender will be having another meet-up. _ Please come and chill with us in San Francisco’s summer sun. We’ll be out there from 12-3pm playing board games (or other chill activities) and munching on snacks. If you’re 21+, it’s BYOB (bring your own beer). Please drink responsibly. _ Just so we know how many awesome people will be joining us, please RVSP at http://bit.ly/AGMeetupAug or acrossgender.com . Hope to see all you lovely people there! — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2vtWljI

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Do you have experience or knowledge regarding this question? Help your fellow peers and answer below. We hope this will encourage folx to engage in conversation with one another through peer-to-peer advice. _ If you are interested in submitting a trans-related question, send us a direct message and we will post it on our profile anonymously. _ Disclaimer: although we encourage peer-to-peer advice, be advised that the advice provided by the community are purely informational and should not be relied upon as medical advice. — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2KaIRPj

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Hi everyone! We’re going to try this new project where you can direct message us a transition-related question and have your community of peers answer it! _ How it works: - 1. Direct message us your question 2. We post it on our profile. 3. Have folx with first hand experience or knowledge respond. __ We hope this will encourage folx to engage in communication with one another through peer-to-peer advice. 💞Now send us your questions! 💕 _ Disclaimer: although we encourage peer-to-peer advice, be advised that the advice provided by the community are purely informational and should not be relied upon as medical advice. — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2OjHDV6

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Hello everyone! _ We apologize for the lack of post as of late. We have been super busy getting ready for the 12th annual Gender Spectrum Conference! _ We're so humbled and thankful to be partnering with Gender Spectrum in creating their Conference Youth Programs. It's going to be amazing and we can't wait to be surrounded by so many trans and gender expansive younglings. _ If you are interested in attending the conference, visit genderspectrum.org! Registration ends this Saturday, June 30th! Gender Spectrum wants everyone who is interested in attending to be able to do so. They have sliding scale tickets available, and are hosting an online forum where you may be able to find a host family for housing. See the registration page for details. _ Hope to see you there! 💓 — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2lFHKgD

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Our last Youth of Color Discussion Group was last week. To those who joined us, we thank you for sharing your experiences with openness and honesty. We absolutely enjoyed getting to know each of you and sharing space. _ Regardless of the turn out of each discussion session, we are happy to have had the opportunity to, not only provide a safe space, but also a space where trans youth of color are able to have conversations around the intersections of race and gender. With the permission of one of our wonderful participants, Cristian, we are humbled to share his testimonial with you: _ “ I just wanted to say thank you so much for the Youth of Color discussion group! It’s helped me a lot and it’s given me hope for my future. I find it very comforting to be given advice from these trans adults and I love to listen their own experiences which makes me look forward to my own. These adults have made me realize that I can love myself and be proud of being a person of color while also being trans. I’ve always looked forward to all the times that I’ve gone to this discussion group and I’ve had fun speaking to William and Dunai which are very sweet people. I really appreciate this group and I just wanted you to know that. It really does help and it gives me something to look forward to throughout the week. ” _ This, among other folks we’ve met online, makes our hearts full. To know that we help at least one person is a motivating force to keep moving forward. We are planning to have more variations of these in the future. Stay tuned! — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2MLxG1O

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Remember: “Know History, Know Self. No History, No Self.” -Jose Rizal

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The “Stonewall Riots” have been mythologized as the origin of the gay liberation movement, and there is a great deal of truth in that characterization, but gay, transgender, and gender-nonconforming people had been engaging in militant protest and collective actions against social oppression for at least a decade by that time.

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The Stonewall Inn was a small, shabby, Mafia-run bar. It drew a racially mixed crowd and was popular mainly for its location on Christopher Street near Sheridan Square, where many gay men “cruised” for casual sex, and because it featured go-go boys, cheap beer, a good jukebox, and a crowded dance floor.

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Then as now, there was a lively street scene in that bar’s vicinity, one that drew young and racially mixed queer folk from through the region most weekend nights. Police raids were relatively frequent and relatively routine and uneventful. But on Saturday, June 28, 1969, events departed from the familiar script when the squad pulled up outside the Stonewall Inn.

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A large crowd of people gathered on the street as police began arresting workers and patrons and escorting them out of the bar and into the waiting police wagons. Eyewitness accounts of what happened next differ in their particulars, but some witnesses claim a trans masculine person resisted police attempts to put them in the police wagon, while other noted that African American and Puerto Rican members of the crowd - many of them street queens, feminine gay men, transgender women, or gender-nonconforming youth- grew increasingly angry as they watched their “sisters” being arrested and escalated the level of opposition to the police. Both stories might be true.

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Sylvia Rivera, a transgender women, who came to play an important role in subsequent transgender political history, long maintained that, after she was jabbed by a police baton, she threw the beer bottle that tipped the crowd’s mood from mockery to collective resistance.

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Bottles, rocks, and other heavy objects were soon being hurled at the police, who, in retaliation, began grabbing people from the crowd and beating them. Weekend partiers and residents in the heavily gay neighborhood quickly swelled the ranks of the crowd to more than two thousand people, and the outnumbered police barricaded themselves inside the Stonewall Inn and called for reinforcements.

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Outside, rioters used an uprooted parking meter as a battering ram to try to break down the bar’s doors, while other members of the crowd attempted to throw a Molotov cocktail inside to drive the police back into the streets. Tactical Patrol Force officers arrived on the scene in an attempt to contain the growing disturbance, which nevertheless continued for hours until dissipating before dawn.

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That night thousands of people regrouped at the Stonewall Inn to protest. When the police arrived to break up the assembled crowd, street fighting even more violently than that of the night before ensued. One particularly memorable sight amid the melee was a line of drag queens, arms linked, dancing a can-can and singing campy, improvised songs that mocked the police and their inability to regain control of the situation.

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Minor skirmishes and protest rallies continued throughout the next few days before finally dying down. By that time, however, untold thousands of people had been galvanized into political action.

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STRYKER, SUSAN. TRANSGENDER HISTORY. SEAL, 2017.

Image source: histoycollection.co | britannica.com

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Remember: “Know History, Know Self. No History, No Self.” -Jose Rizal _ The 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco’s Tenderloin was the first time direct action in the streets by trans people resulted in long-lasting institutional change. _ One weekend night in August Compton’s, a twenty-four-hour cafeteria at the corner of Turk and Taylor Streets, was buzzing with its usual late-night crowd of drag queens, cruisers, runaway teens, and down-and-out neighborhood regulars. _ The restaurant’s management became annoyed by a noisy young crowd of queens at one table who seemed to be spending a lot time without spending a lot of money. So they called in the police to roust them- as they had been doing with increasing frequency throughout the summer. A police officer, accustomed to manhandling Compton’s clientele with impunity, grabbed the arm of one of the queens and tried to drag her away. She unexpectedly threw her coffee in his face, and a melee erupted. _ Plates, trays, cups, saucers, and silverware flew through the air at the startled police officers, who ran outside and called for backup. Compton’s’ customers turned over the tables and smashed the plate-glass windows before pouring out of the restaurant and into the streets. _ The police wagons arrived, and street fighting broke out in the vicinity of Compton’s, all around the corner of Turk and Taylor. Drag queens beat the police with their heavy purses and the sharp stiletto heels of their shoes. A police car was vandalized, a newspaper stand was burned to the ground, and - in the words of the best available source on what happened that night, a retrospective account by gay liberation activist Reverend Raymond Broshears, published in the program of San Francisco’s first Gay Pride march in 1972- “general havoc was raised. That night in the Tenderloin.” _ The small restaurant had been packed when the fighting broke out, so the riot probably involved fifty or sixty patrons, plus police officers and any neighborhood residents or late-night passerby who joined the fray. _ STRYKER, SUSAN. TRANSGENDER HISTORY. SEAL, 2017. Image source: glbthistory.org | hoodline.com

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In honor of Pride Month, we will be posting transgender history throughout the month. Remember: “Know History, Know Self. No History, No Self.” -Jose Rizal _ April 1965 Dewey’s, a lunch counter and late-night coffeehouse, had been popular with gays, lesbians, drag queens, and street sex workers as a place to go after the bars had closed, as well as a place for cheap food all day long. _ Dewey’s started refusing to serve young customers who wore what one gay newspaper of the day euphemistically described as ���nonconformist clothing”, claiming that “gay kids” were driving away other business. _ Customers rallied to protest, and on April 25, more than 150 patrons were turned away by the management. Three teenagers refused to leave after being denied service in what appears to be the first act of civil disobedience over anti transgender discrimination; they, along with a gay activist who advised them of their legal rights, were arrested and subsequently found guilty on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct. _ During the next week, Dewey’s patrons and members of Philadelphia’s homophile community set up an informational picket line at the restaurant, where they passed out thousands of pieces of literature protesting the lunch counter’s treatment of gender-variant young people. _ May 2, activists staged another sit-in. The police were again called in, but this time made no arrests. The restaurants management backed down and promised “an immediate cessation of all indiscriminate denials of service.” _ The Dewey’s incident, like the one at Cooper DoNut, demonstrated the overlap between gay and transgender activism in the working-class districts of major US cities. _ STRYKER, SUSAN. TRANSGENDER HISTORY. SEAL, 2017. Image source: queerty.com — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2LGbkgW

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Don’t forget Across Gender is having a sale on ALL our merch throughout Pride Month! 🌈 _ Use the code PRIDE2018 to get 25% off when you spend $10 or more! _ All proceeds go directly back towards helping our community! Thank you for helping us help our community! 🤗💕💕 — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2xUAuGF

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In honor of Pride Month, we will be posting transgender history throughout the month. Remember: “Know History, Know Self. No History, No Self.” -Jose Rizal _ May of 1959 Transgender and gay resentment of police oppression erupted into collective resistance. Cooper Do-Nut, a doughnut and coffee hangout that stayed open all night on Main Street Los Angeles and situated between two popular gay bars, was frequented by ethnically mixed crowd of drag queens and male hustler (many of them Latinx or African American). _ Police cars regularly patrolled the vicinity and often stopped to question people in the area for no reason at all. The police would demand identification -which, for trans people whose appearance might not match the name or gender designation on their IDs, often led to arrest on suspicion of prostitution, vagrancy, loitering, or many other so-called nuance crimes. _ On the night of May 1959, when police came in and started rounding up drag queens, they and others on the scene spontaneously resisted arrest en masse. The incident started with customers throwing doughnuts at the cops and ended with fighting in the streets, as squad cars and police wagons covered at the site to make arrests. _ The disturbance at Cooper Do-Nut was unplanned outburst of frustration, and it was no doubt typical of other unrecorded and unremembered acts of spur-of-the moment resistance to anti trans and antigay oppression. -STRYKER, SUSAN. TRANSGENDER HISTORY. SEAL, 2017. _ Image source: pridesource.com — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2JpuZ3X