It has occurred to me that perhaps some do not understand what we are doing with our outreach and message. I guess to the stranger we look like a poor, pitiful me story. That isn’t why we began outreach, that’s not why we wanted to tell our story. We want to enlighten the world to acceptance, love, and understanding, becuase we’re living the message for real. We are being the changes we want to see. We’re putting effort into spreading awareness of intersectional issues. We are sharing our stories of oppression, hardships, and discrimination to give examples of what many transgender individuals face on a daily basis. We are working diligently to support, encourage, and lift up those that are marginalized, oppressed, and down-trodden by life’s experiences and other people.
We have an empowered voice to use as an outlet for motivation, inspiration, and change. The intentions behind our story are to bring light to a very dark existence for many transgender folks. The point is to highlight the negative parts we should be striving to change. The goal is to increase awareness of these issues, educate ourselves and others. The goal is to relay this information in an uplifting manner. Having a geniune desire to impact the hearts and minds of others is what launched “Two Trans One Van” in the first place. Beginning the FaceBook group Two Trans One Van, we had hoped to have conversations with friends, allies, and readers. However, it’s not catching on like I’d hoped. I crave to converse with people on the issues that matter, but it seems I have to expand the crowd. I want to move on to different platforms, and try different projects. However, like any other project, capital is needed. We, particulary me, are antsy to get these new projects rolling. When we launched the initial fundraiser for the tee shirts, we were thrilled to have the poll go so well, but disappointed when we had an unsuccessful campaign. We are back for round two, hoping the new shirt design will be more successful. There are eleven days remaining for the fundraiser. If it doesn’t go well, I have decided that since not many of the group members interact and the first campaign wasn’t successful that you all don’t really appreaciate what I’m doing here.. so I will be ending the blog. Hope you better understand where I am at. Thanks for reading and following thus far. I’ve poured out my heart for months, and I feel it was in vain. I feel very unappreciated, lonely, and unsuccessful yet again.
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Authors:James and Katherine are a transgender couple raising two kids. They were southerners when coming to understand themselves as trans. Ultimately it lead to a nearly three year road trip to find home. Now they are re-housed and still focused on outreach in the transgender community! Archives
October 2020
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