• Help us raise 25,000

      by December to support

      Kenya's Trans&Queer community

      Check out the following links for information on the current context facing Queer&Trans Kenyans during COVID19

      1. The British Empire's Homophobia Lives On in Former Colonies

      2. Kenya Turns Its Covid-19 Crisis into a Human Rights Emergency

    • ABOUT THIS FUNDRAISER &

      THE TRANS&QUEER SOLIDARITY FUND KENYA

      Attendees of the 2012 St. Lawrence University Kenya Semester Program are partnering with Paza Sauti: The People’s Poetry to raise $25,000USD for the Trans&Queer Solidarity Fund Kenya (TQSFKe).

       

      The TQSFKe was started in March 2020 by Makena, Mumbi, Karwitha & Kedolwa in response to increasing and compounding need in the Kenya LGBTQ+ community during COVID 19. In the spirit of mutual aid and community autonomy, these 4 began collecting and redistributing funds to LGBTQ+ Kenyans facing housing crisis, food insecurity, unemployment, general safety concerns and other urgent needs. In the funds own words, "we believe that mutual aid is necessary to in response to a state that fails to provide the basic services people need to survive and thrice, as well as a response to a state that continues to harm and target those who mobilize against it. Queer organizers at the grassroots level suffer the brunt of both those realities and it is important that we not only support their work, but also ensure that they have the resources to survive and be".

       

      Since the fund’s launch, it has independently raised over $5000USD and over 100 Kenyans have been directly assisted through the fund. Moments of universal struggle always impact marginalized/oppressed groups more, and this was the case for LGBTQ+ Kenyans. Due to the increase in need, the TQSFKe currently finds itself without any funds which leads us to this fundraiser! Scroll down to the bottom of the page to read more about the origin of the fundraiser or

       

      READ ON TO HELP MEET OUR FUNDRAISING GOALS

      We will raise 25,000USD

      Donate directly to:

      VENMO: @Mwende-Katwiwa

      PAYPAL: www.paypal.me/freequency

      CASHAPP: $MKatwiwa

       

      or visit our GOFUNDME

      Donation Tracker: 3/1/2020

      $13, 298.32

      We will get 100 individuals to commit to a minimum $5USD monthly donation for 12 months.

      25 total donors committed so far! Help us reach our goal of 100 monthly donors by signing up today at the form below

    • Connect With Us

      @Trans.Queer.Fund.Ke

      @Paza_Sauti

    • Fundraiser Origins:

      The attendees of the 2012 St. Lawrence University Kenya Semester Program are partnering with Paza Sauti: The People’s Poetry to raise $25,000USD for the Trans&Queer Solidarity Fund Kenya (TQSFKe). The TQSFKe was started in March 2020 by Makena, Mumbi, Karwitha & Kedolwa in response to increasing and compounding need in the Kenya LGBTQ+ community during COVID 19. In the spirit of mutual aid and community autonomy, these 4 began collecting and redistributing funds to LGBTQ+ Kenyans facing housing crisis, food insecurity, safety concerns and other urgent needs. Moments of universal struggle always impact marginalized/oppressed groups more, and this was the case for LGBTQ+ Kenyans. Due to the increase in need, the TQSFKe currently finds itself without any funds.

       

      Even before COVID19, LGTBQ+ Kenyans faced constant threats to their health and safety. Members of this group regularly experience physical, emotional & economic insecurity as a result of Kenya’s continued insistence on maintaining colonial era laws against LGBTQ+ persons.

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      This fundraiser was originally conceived by Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa (they/them), a queer/shoga Kenyan writer, movement archivist and cultural organizer currently based between New Orleans and Nairobi. A graduate of Tulane University (2014), Mwende was a participant in the 2012 KSP program.

       

      Mwende discovered the fund through their relationship with Mumbi, one of the fund's founders, and began to do small scale fundraising using their small following on social media. After 3 rounds of online asks and personal fundraising, Mwende was able to raise nearly $1500 for the fund during the summer of 2020. After receiving news that the fund was empty, Mwende began to strategize around ongoing/sustainable support for such a necessary effort. As the founder of Paza Sauti (a Nairobi based art & activism collective) and an attendee of the 2012 KSP trip, the union seemed natural.

       

      After reaching out to Taylor McCabe (she/her), another 2012 KSP alumni, the two contacted fellow alumni of the 2012 KSProgram and this fundraiser was born.

       

      If you are interested in hearing from the founders of the fund & this fundraiser, please email PazaSautiKenya@gmail.com for information on an open zoom call where organizers will speak to us more about their work and the impact of the fund.

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