Inside TeganAndSara's grassroots right for LGTBQ women and girls
For 23 years, Sara and I have been playing music and meeting fans, and a massive part of our audience is female or queer-identifying. But progressively over the past few years, we started to hear stories that didn’t sound like ours anymore. Young queer people we talked to still felt an enormous amount of pressure and shame around their identity, and they were not accepted or having struggles at work or with family and friends.
In launching the foundation, we started a whole other business which involved grant writing, funding and social media. There was so much we didn’t know, and it has been so much harder to raise money than we thought. Major corporations love to throw money behind Pride, but with [events] being shut down this year, all of the physical spaces and money dried up.
To have this foundation is incredibly satisfying, gratifying and empowering, but it also hurts a lot. We’ve raised over $1 million, but it took three years. I wish more people cared about trans women of color. I wish that people didn’t think that because we got marriage equality, the fight is over. We’re growing and learning, and the social justice community has embraced us, but it can be hard to pull back the curtain and see how the hot dogs are made.
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