[Sign Up] Louder With Love Fundraising Stream

Campaigns, Campaigns, Community Captains, Streaming, volunteering

If you’ve been online at all lately, you already know this:
everything feels loud. And not in a fun way.

The hate is loud.
The fear is loud.
The doom scroll never shuts up.

And for 2TIGE (Two Spirit, Trans, Intersex, and Gender Expansive) folks, that noise isn’t just annoying — it seeps into our bodies, our nervous systems, our sense of safety. It makes rest feel impossible and joy feel irresponsible.

So we’re choosing something different.

From Feb 17–22, we’re bringing back Louder With Love — a Twitch-based fundraising week rooted in joy, care, and showing up for each other without pretending things aren’t hard.

Not toxic positivity.
Not “good vibes only.”
Just… love, but loud enough to actually matter.

What Louder With Love Looks Like in Real Life

Louder With Love is simple on purpose.

Streamers show up on Twitch and do what they already do — play games, chat, create — and we invite their communities to help fund real support for Trans Empowerment Project and the 2TIGE folks we serve.

You can:

Run a dedicated fundraising stream
Add a donation goal to a regular stream
Raid, boost, or hype someone else’s stream
Or just help spread the word

We provide optional overlays, graphics, chat commands, and support so no one has to build this from scratch.

This isn’t about doing the most.
It’s about doing something, together.

Let’s Be Honest for a Minute

We already have a few streamers signed up. They’re great. We love them.

And, we need to say this plainly, but that won’t be enough.

Our streaming program needs to bring in about $90,000 this year to keep Trans Empowerment Project running at the level our community needs. Louder With Love is the first of five fundraising events we’re rolling out to try to get there. If this one doesn’t land, everything else gets harder.

We can’t get there on small streams alone, no matter how much heart is in them.
We need creators with bigger audiences to help us — even if it’s just for one stream.

How & Why We’re Inviting Streamers to Get SAFE

As part of Louder With Love, we’re inviting streamers to become SAFE-certified through our SAFE Stream training.

SAFE stands for Supportive, Accountable, Fair, and Empowering.

It’s not about being perfect. It’s about being honest. About saying, “If harm happens here, I won’t ignore it.”

SAFE-certified streamers get:

A badge or certificate they can display
Language to explain what SAFE means to their community
A way to signal care without making big promises they can’t keep

For 2TIGE folks who are constantly weighing whether a space is worth the risk, that signal matters.

Why We’re Asking You to Show Up

We don’t love having to say this part, but we’re not going to dance around it.

If we don’t hit our fundraising goals this year, our capacity shrinks even further; or we close our doors completely. And the people impacted first are the ones who already have the least room to absorb another loss.

We’re not asking anyone to save us.
We are asking people with reach to show up with us. Because love, rooted in resources, is the only way we will keep our doors open this year.

Want to Join Us?

📅 Feb 17–22
🎮 On Twitch
💜 Join at the level that makes sense for you

👉 Sign up here:
https://linkto.transempowerment.org/LWL26

We’ll bring the tools.
You bring your voice.
Let’s get #LouderWithLove together!

A Note for Creators with 10k+ Followers

This part’s for you.

We know your inbox is full. We know you get asked to support causes all the time. And we know saying yes to everything would burn you out fast.

So here’s the honest version.

One stream from a creator with your reach can do what dozens of smaller streams simply can’t. It can fund weeks of community support. It can keep training programs running. It can mean the difference between “we’ll try again later” and “we’re still here.”

We’re not asking for a long-term commitment.
We’re not asking you to carry this alone.
We’re asking for one moment of shared effort.

If you care about building safer internet spaces.
If you care about Trans folks having places to land.
If you’ve ever wondered how to use your platform without it feeling performative…

This is a way to do that.

Join us for Louder With Love, Feb 17–22.
Even one stream helps more than you know.

👉 https://linkto.transempowerment.org/LWL26

Finding Gender Euphoria at a Clothing Swap

Community Captains, Organizing, Take Action

Clothing is what makes the (Hu)man; or so they say, which is why as our founder, I started TEP with a clothing swap.

I realized that clothing was one immediate form of gender expression that we have access to. Clothing amplifies outwardly the energy within our bodies. It introduces us to the world, without us having to say a word and is one of the many ways that we as humans have to connect to the world around us. Allowing us all to explore who we are, what we’re feeling, what we want to project to the rest of the world and affords comfort, especially against the elements during extreme weather.

Despite the fact that clothing is one of the most abundant resources on our planet, especially in the United States, where we are high subscribers to fast fashion, it can be incredibly difficult to access gender-affirming clothing that is affordable for our community.

From the discomfort of trying to shop in what may be an unaffirming and potentially unsafe space, to not having the cash needed to get the affirming clothing we want/need, clothing is one resource that the 2TIGE community is always in need of.

For the last few years we’ve been shipping out clothing packages to folks in need, but that’s just not sustainable!

So, now we’re asking our community members to join us in hosting clothing swaps across the country to make sure more folks get access to the clothing resources that they need.

Not only that, but clothing swaps can be a lot of fun; especially when organized with friends! We’ve had folks hold one off-events and also held them as regular functions in Knoxville, TN until COVID hit.

You can organize clothing swaps with friends or open them up to the larger community. They’re a great and affordable way for everyone in the community (including our accomplices) to come together for fun and to freshen up their wardrobes with fresh finds.

ICYMI: Clothing swaps can help protect the earth by ensuring that unwanted clothing ends up in the hands of communities who need them rather than adding to overfilled landfills!

Did you know: “It takes almost 8000 litres of water – what one person drinks in seven years – to make one pair of jeans. And when those jeans are discarded, they join the 21 billion tons of textiles that end up in landfills each year. Of 100 billion items produced yearly, 14 for each human on the planet, three in five will be discarded within the year.”(UN, 2019) & (NRDC.org, 2019)

Check out this list of: 26 Shocking Fast Fashion Statistics & Facts to Know in 2024 from YourSustainableGuide.com

Interested in hosting your own swap? Join our Community Captains Community Cohort and we’ll help you get started!

[Call to Action] Show Solidarity with the Unhoused

Community Captains, News, Organizing, Take Action

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Today, a critical moment unfolds before the Supreme Court—a moment that will invariably leave deep imprints on the fabric of our collective conscience and on the lives of countless individuals across our nation. The city of Grants Pass, Oregon, has brought forth a case to the highest court with the potential to criminalize homelessness. As an organization built on the pillars of empowerment and support for the most vulnerable, we at TEP feel compelled to raise our voices against this alarming moment.

Imagine, if you may, the stress and strain of living without the safety of shelter, compounded by the looming threat of being criminalized just for existing, reacting or responding to circumstances—circumstances often beyond your control.

It is a grave injustice when the laws of the land do not protect, but rather persecute, those in the throes of misfortune and a somber reflection of our society when individuals are penalized for seeking the most basic human need for shelter.

Over the last several years, we’ve watched as the rates of the unhoused surge along with the cost of living and the rise in mortgage rates.

Compounding this issue are motions like the Safer Kentucky act, a piece of proposed legislation that has been deemed cruel, and would potentially authorize deadly force against those without homes—a thought that shudders the heart and shakes the spirit, especially for those of us who have had the misfortunate experience of being unhoused in a capitalist society. If unchecked, these movements could lead to a reality where the absence of a home is met not only with indifference but with hostility—a stark contradiction to any society that honestly deems itself as morally just and/or compassionate.

While doing the work that I do at TEP, I have witnessed firsthand how housing insecurities are ravaging our community, as—over 40% of our clients have shared their tribulations of not having any source of income whatsoever and 1 in 5 have indicated they had no place to call home when reaching out to us. Their stories are not mere statistics; they are harrowing narratives of resilience amidst adversity, of seeking dignity while staring down the face of societal neglect.

As members of a community that cherishes inclusion and uplifts the most marginalized, we must now band together more than ever. To align on our values of solving inequities by centering Disabled 2TIGE-BIPOC in our solutions; To advocate for policies that understand, prevent, and compassionately respond to homelessness rather than punish it.

We believe that no individual should be deemed a criminal for simply trying to survive without shelter.

Please join us by signing the petition below urging the Supreme Court to affirm the right to adequate shelter and to protect the human rights of all individuals, housed or otherwise. Let’s unite to alter the trajectory of this conversation—from one that criminalizes to one that humanizes, from punitive action to compassionate policy.

Your voice has power. Your signature is a beacon of hope. Your action is a step towards a future where the inherent dignity of every soul is recognized and upheld. Speak out, show up, and let your humanity echo through the halls of justice.

Together, we can shift the course of history—towards empathy, towards compassion, towards dignity for all.

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