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[Sign Up] Louder With Love Fundraising Stream

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

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Getting #LouderWithLove (Again)

Getting #LouderWithLove (Again)

What Is Louder With Love?

Louder With Love is a community-powered campaign rooted in a simple but radical idea: we don’t have to amplify harm to acknowledge it—we can choose to amplify love instead.

Every day, we’re bombarded with bad news, hateful rhetoric, and policies designed to keep marginalized communities in survival mode. Social media rewards outrage, fear, and trauma, creating a constant doom scroll that exhausts our nervous systems and isolates us from one another. Louder With Love exists to interrupt that cycle.

By getting #LouderWithLove, we intentionally flood our feeds, our streams, and our real lives with joy, gratitude, kindness, and collective action—without denying reality, and without centering despair.

Why It Matters (Especially Now)

For 2TIGE communities, the weight of legislative attacks, misinformation, and violence is not theoretical—it’s lived. Doom scrolling doesn’t just hurt our mental health; it keeps people stuck in crisis mode, unable to rest, organize, or imagine something better.

Louder With Love is not about toxic positivity or ignoring harm. It’s about choosing joy as resistance, care as strategy, and love as a renewable resource. When we shift what we amplify, we shift what feels possible.

Why We’re Bringing It Back

We launched Louder With Love before the world was ready to listen. Now, people are burnt out, disconnected, and searching for ways to help that don’t require them to be angry all the time.

We’re bringing Louder With Love back because:

  • Joy is a survival tool.

  • Community care is not optional.

  • And love, when practiced collectively, can fund real support for people who need it.

This relaunch centers fundraisers, streamers, and everyday folks who want to do something—even if that something starts small.

How to Show Love With Us

Showing love doesn’t require perfection, a big platform, or endless capacity. It requires intention.

You can show love by:

  • Hosting a fundraiser or adding a donation goal to your stream

  • Sharing joy-forward content that uplifts your community

  • Practicing kindness offline through providing mutual aid, community check-ins, and care driven events

  • Committing to being safer, learning to be anti-racist, and holding yourself accountable, by creating more love in shared spaces through completing our safe pledge

Every action—big or small—helps move our community out of crisis and into connection.

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