Mutual Aid Monday: Trans Joy and Solidarity
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Please keep our neighbors happy and do not park ON Buena Vista. There is ample parking along 36th Street.
Vital Matters’ Mutual Aid Mondays is a series of gatherings that launched on Inauguration Day, 2025, to connect with one another in nourishing and productive ways, and to exchange ideas, resources, tenderness, and care for each other and the communities we care about--particularly those who are most vulnerable at this moment. This feels like the vital foundation for any of the work we do, the art we create or curate, or the battles we help fight.
We believe love, joy, and creativity are at the heart of being in healthy community, and the heart of change-making. They are our strongest form of resistance to, and the key to transforming hatred and ignorance.
Learn more about Vital Matters here: www.vitalmatters.net, and follow us on IG: @_vital_matters_
Strengthening Trans Support Networks: May 19
Our third Mutual Aid Monday offering of 2025 is an opportunity to strengthen community between trans, gender non-conforming and gender non binary folks and allies through the arts & creative practice, to learn about mutual aid, and connect with individuals and organizations that support trans youth and adults in Baltimore.
Our ideas about mutual aid are inspired by the work of trans activist Dean Spade, who literally wrote the book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (And the Next) 2020.
The evening will include a potluck supper and snacks, conversation, some grounding in the body and the Earth, collective art-making, a queer stoop sale exchange, resources, and more!
We are very excited to feature a sneak peak of Rooted Collective's DAMN Y'ALL FINE, a Visual Essay (documentary film) about Black queer and trans style and culture in Baltimore.
We will be joined by Baltimore PFLAG, Baltimore Safe Haven and other local organizations and individuals who provide resources for trans youth, adults, and family and friends.
While this gathering is co-led by and is focused on supporting our trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming community, allies are welcome!
Ways to participate:
-Just bring yourself and a buddy!
-Bring food or drink to share!
-Bring a book, tshirt, accessories, to swap!
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