2021 APIENC BUILDING TRANS, NON-BINARY, & QUEER API POWER
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APIENC
2021 BUILDING TRANS, NON-BINARY,
& QUEER API POWER
OUR NEW THEORY OF CHANGE
2021 GOALS & OBJECTIVES
INTRODUCTION
We are in a moment of compounded Over the course of our Strat Chats, Core
crisis. As we mourn the lives 8 people— members gathered online to assess our
and 6 Asian women—tragically lost to conditions, name our strengths, and
white supremacist violence in Atlanta, determine the most pressing needs. We
we are viscerally reminded of the started by articulating our strengths
urgency to create true safety and and transformative potential. We
liberation. To be effective in reaching assessed the needs of our community
this vision, we need to be strategic by reflecting on our lived experiences,
about how we move forward. the Up to Us Report, and all the recent
data on COVID-19 disparities. We spent
Our last set of priorities and directions time learning about other organizations
was made to last through 2020. At the in our movement ecosystem and
beginning of last year, we started to deconstructed the role of revolutionary
think about creating new guiding forces in a movement. We moved
directions and building strategy skills through fears about making big
across the organization, especially given decisions, representing our base, and
the findings from our TGNC API Needs planning for the future during an
Assessment. Through the grief of white uncertain present. At every step in the
supremacy, COVID-19, and climate process, we grounded in our lineages,
disaster, re-strategizing became even resourced ourselves in daily wisdom,
more necessary and even more and embodied our collective power.
daunting.
Along with our friends from the Wildfire
Project, we came up with a 6-month
process for Core Committee members—
staff and volunteer leaders from across
the organization—to set APIENC’s new
directions. It was a big proposal:
conversations spanning months, 4-hour
zoom calls on weekends, and plenty of
deep learning and reflection. This was
the largest strategy process we’ve held This isn’t just an announcement, it’s
as an organization, and as intimidating also an invitation. To actualize our
as this seemed, it was also an plans over the next 5 years and build
opportunity to build a plan rooted in true communities of care, healing, and
the visions and experiences of members safety, we’re going to need you. Will you
from across APIENC. Together, we join us on this journey?
named our conversations “strat chats.”
TTHEORY
HEORY OOF
F CCHANGE
HANGE
OUR FIVE YEAR PLAN AHEAD
Grounded in love and legacy of APIENC is a bridge between
our people, we are excited to personal transformation and
bring you our Theory of political work to meet our needs.
Change. From our discussions Centered in the histories and
and analysis, we identified the experiences of trans and queer
overlap between what our API people, our role is to build
communities need and what we movement leaders across
excel at doing. This idea, this oppressed communities.
theory, is how APIENC is best
positioned to create change.
IF WE... WE WILL... ULTIMATELY...
provide space for
healing,
shape how
community care, supporting
people show up
and building movements to be
in broader
mental health skills more effective &
movements
convene, train, & sustainable
grow the
coach member- building a stronger
number
leaders across movement culture
participating
organizations that heals us and
and leading in
mobilize for creates long-term
values-based
community safety solutions
ways
and alternatives to
policing
Readers appreciate accurate information
Over the next year, we’ll adjust our work to be
2021
in line with our new Theory of Change. In
addition to our flagship programming, such as
our Summer Organizer Program and trans
GOALS justice workshops, we’ll build out new working
groups centered on healing and community
safety.
Rooted in our long-term vision and focus on real solutions, APIENC members
have crafted the following goals:
CULTURE SHIFT TRANS
& VISIBILITY JUSTICE
Activate Our Stories: Uplift Community Safety: Assemble a
knowledge from our Dragon Fruit community safety working group
and Trans Justice initiatives through through a process of political
social media, community events, education and skills-building on
and educational graphics. Move topics of transformative justice, de-
people to take action towards escalation, and divestment from
relationship building and trans policing.
justice. Peer Counseling: Launch a pilot
Grow Communications Capacity: peer counseling program over the
Conduct an assessment of key course of a 2-week period, serving at
competencies and address areas of least 10 TGNC participants. Use
growth through internal skill-shares learnings to create a sustainable
and recruiting new members. peer counseling model within
APIENC.
DRAGON FRUIT DRAGON FRUIT
NETWORK PROJECT
Lessons of Community Care: Dragon Fruit Podcast: Produce
Publish 3 resources that support and release 4 podcast episodes that
people
Creating to practice
a good impactskills
reportof means share the experiences of trans and
interdependence,
being transparent withasking for help,
your audience. queer API people. Host
and relationship building,
Back up your claims with relevant in order
data. accompanying listening parties to
Keep your sentences concise whenof
to strengthen wider networks connect, share stories, and fight
care beyond
necessary, APIENC.
but dive into detail when it isolation.
Build Trust: Host
comes to qualitative and 2-3 quantitative
conversations Share Our Learnings: Convene
across Remember:
evidence. generationsan and identities
impact report is past and present Dragon Fruit
that increase understanding
a combination of understanding your around Project participants for a
issuesyour
mission, of gender andyour
work, and transphobia.
audience, celebratory report back, laying the
and communicating that clearly of
Identify concrete practices with the foundation for deeper engagement
community
rest of the world.care for TGNC and all with TQAPI histories across
people in our network. movement work.2021
GOALS
LEADERSHIP FUNDRAISING
DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES
Strengthen TQAPI Leadership: Expand our Committee: Recruit at
Support 25 current APIENC members least 2 new Fundraising Committee
to deepen their involvement and skills members by the end of 2021
through 1-1 support and group through experimenting with two
training. Emphasize the leadership of new approaches to outreach.
those underrepresented under the Build Resource Mobilization
TQAPI umbrella. Skills: Hold 3 internal mini-trainings
Margins & Centers: Complete an or exchanges for members to build
assessment of internal membership fundraising skills. At least one of our
data in order to better understand our internal sessions should be an
organizational culture and current exchange with grassroots
gaps. Use this assessment to propose fundraisers from another
long-term solutions. organization.
Long-Term Strategizing: In Uplift Working-Class Power: Bring
alignment with our new Theory of together at least 10 working-class
Change, support all APIENC members of APIENC to discuss
committees to craft 5-year visions for experiences, leading to the creation
their work. of an ongoing working-class caucus.
MOVEMENT
BUILDING
Learning Exchange: Organize a
WILL YOU
reciprocal learning opportunity JOIN US TO
centered on community safety for
trans and queer API people. Lessons BUILD NEW
will inform the creation of our
Community Safety Working Group in
WORLDS?
2022 and beyond.
Movement-Wide Training: Initiate
“LEXternal,” a Leadership Exchange info@apienc.org
targeted towards our external apienc.org
community partners, for 10 TGI Bay
Area-based organizers of color, in order
@apienc
to grow their emotionally-intentional &
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