Join us to learn about Astraea’s latest accomplishments and groundbreaking funding strategies. Discuss how lesbian philanthropy is impacting social change in Los Angeles and around the world. Enjoy the pool, DJ, performances, food and beverages.
Astraea’s “Summer Fever” Fundraiser
Presented by Maylei Blackwell, Meg Hickman, & Alice Y. Hom
Join us to learn about Astraea’s latest accomplishments and groundbreaking funding strategies. Discuss how lesbian philanthropy is impacting social change in Los Angeles and around the world. Enjoy the pool, DJ, performances, food and beverages.
Date: Saturday, June 16
Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
RSVP for Address [email protected]
Suggested contribution:
$50 ($25 students/retired/limited income)
All donations are tax-deductible.
Volunteer opportunities available: contact [email protected]
Please bring towels, swimwear, hats, and your contribution in the form of cash or check.
Performers
Doris Reed is a Los Angeles based poet and author of Tending My Garden (2004) as well as poetry music album Reflections (2004).
Born in Columbia, raised in Miami, residing in Eastside Longo, Califas, tatiana de la tierra is the author of For the Hard Ones: A Lesbian Phenomenology / Para las duras: Una fenomenologia lesbiana, Porcupine Love and Other tales from My Papaya and Pintame Una Mujer Peligrosa.
Adelina Anthony, a Xicana lesbian and multi-genre artista, currently resides in Los Angeles. Her MASTERING SEX & TORTILLAS! performance in 2006 was selected as an L.A. Weekly Theater Critics Pick of the Week.
The indelible, delicious and delectable Claudette Sexy DJ has been a DJ and cultural force in the LGBT community of Los Angeles for over 20 years.
Can’t make the fundraiser? Make an online contribution to the Astraea Foundation by donating now
Join us to learn about Astraea’s latest accomplishments and groundbreaking funding strategies. Discuss how lesbian philanthropy is impacting social change in Los Angeles and around the world. Enjoy the pool, DJ, performances, food and beverages.
Presented by Maylei Blackwell, Meg Hickman, & Alice Y. Hom
Join us to learn about Astraea’s latest accomplishments and groundbreaking funding strategies. Discuss how lesbian philanthropy is impacting social change in Los Angeles and around the world. Enjoy the pool, DJ, performances, food and beverages.
Date: Saturday, June 16
Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
RSVP for Address [email protected]
Suggested contribution:
$50 ($25 students/retired/limited income)
All donations are tax-deductible.
Volunteer opportunities available: contact [email protected]
Please bring towels, swimwear, hats, and your contribution in the form of cash or check.
Performers
Doris Reed is a Los Angeles based poet and author of Tending My Garden (2004) as well as poetry music album Reflections (2004).
Born in Columbia, raised in Miami, residing in Eastside Longo, Califas, tatiana de la tierra is the author of For the Hard Ones: A Lesbian Phenomenology / Para las duras: Una fenomenologia lesbiana, Porcupine Love and Other tales from My Papaya and Pintame Una Mujer Peligrosa.
Adelina Anthony, a Xicana lesbian and multi-genre artista, currently resides in Los Angeles. Her MASTERING SEX & TORTILLAS! performance in 2006 was selected as an L.A. Weekly Theater Critics Pick of the Week.
The indelible, delicious and delectable Claudette Sexy DJ has been a DJ and cultural force in the LGBT community of Los Angeles for over 20 years.
Can’t make the fundraiser? Make an online contribution to the Astraea Foundation by donating now
South Asians Here and There: A Dialogue about LGBT & Human Rights
Astraea is proud to co-sponsor the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission’s (IGLHRC) panel discussions on the LGBT rights situation in South Asia. The panels, in New York and San Francisco, will feature Astraea Grantee Partner Sunil Pant, the founder and director of Blue Diamond Society, Nepal’s only LGBT rights organization and the recipient of IGLHRC’s 2007 Felipa de Souza Award.
NEW YORK: Monday, April 30, 2007
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
LGBT Community Center (208 West 13th Street)
Panelists
Sunil Pant, Founder and President of Blue Diamond Society
Trishala Deb, Program Coordinator at Audre Lorde Project
Paula Ettelbrick, IGLHRC Executive Director, Moderator
SAN FRANCISCO: Wednesday, May 2, 2007
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center (730 Polk Street)
Admission is free.
Panelists
Sunil Pant, President of Blue Diamond Society
Dechen Tsering, Program Officer, Asia and Oceania,
Global Fund for Women
Sandip Roy, New America Media, former editor
Trikone Magazine
Paula Ettelbrick, IGLHRC Executive Director, Moderator
Astraea Launches New Justice Social Series!
On September 25, 2005, Astraea will kick off a new series of intimate gatherings. Justice Socials in San Francisco with a brunch hosted by Anne & Simone Dorman and Jewelle Gomez & Diane Sabin.
Hosted in key cities around the U.S., Justice Socials are a wonderful opportunity for Astraea staff and board to engage with Leadership Gift Circle members and introduce Astraea to others interested in supporting social justice philanthropy and grantmaking.
Justice Social schedule:
San Francisco – September 25
New York City – October 19
Boston – November, TBD
For more information, please contact Shaya Mercer, Philanthropic Partnership Officer,
[email protected]
or 212.529.8021.
TGIJP was founded in 2004 with the mission to challenge and end human rights abuses against transgender, gender variant and intersex people, especially transgender women, in California prisons and beyond.
TGIJP was founded in 2004 with the mission to challenge and end human rights abuses against transgender, gender variant and intersex people, especially transgender women, in California prisons and beyond. While TGIJP has done some legal work for intersex individuals caught within the prison industrial complex, its leadership team has long wanted to expand its work in this area to fully realize its name and mission. In 2014, an intersex individual joined the TGIJP’s core volunteer team. TGIJP is now working to increase the visibility of intersex issues in their current programming (e.g. publishing information in their newsletter and raising intersex issues with current allies); conducting internal education for staff, core leadership and members; developing collaborative relationships with intersex organizations; and conducting outreach to identify imprisoned intersex people, share information and support their ability to self-advocate and self-organize. Check out our 2018 International Trans Day of Visibility video featuring an interview with TGIJP’s former Executive Director, Miss Major: Learn more about the documentary 2015 Global Arts Fund grantee partner Annalise Ophelian made about Miss Major:
CUAV is a 37 year-old community organization. Their current programs seek to build the wellness, leadership, and collective power of low- and no-income LGBTQ people of color who are surviving the brunt of violence, poverty, and criminalization.
CUAV is a 37 year-old community organization. Their current programs seek to build the wellness, leadership, and collective power of low- and no-income LGBTQ people of color who are surviving the brunt of violence, poverty, and criminalization. CUAV believes that systemic unemployment and disproportionate interaction with criminal legal and immigration enforcement systems are major issues facing their community, and that these issues produce long standing trauma, barriers to stable housing and healthcare, isolation, violence, and premature death. Their approach is a holistic one and aims to create safety. Their goals are to strengthen the wellness of low- and no-income LGBTQ people surviving domestic violence and hate violence; increase the capacity of low- and no-income LGBTQ survivors of violence and abuse to create healthy relationships and safer lives; and transform the root causes of violence through culture change activities and policy campaigns on issues such as immigration. CUAV is leading a multi-movement coalition against the expansion of the San Francisco Jail.
