Lavender Phoenix (formerly known as APIENC) builds queer and transgender Asian and Pacific Islander power to amplify our voices and increase the visibility of our communities. Through organizing in the Bay Area, we inspire and train grassroots leaders, transform our values from scarcity to abundance, and partner with organizations to sustain a vibrant movement ecosystem.
Our work is rooted in the many legacies of queer and trans API people who have fought isolation, battled for our rights, and created communities of care. To understand where we’re going, we need to understand the successes and challenges of our elders and ancestors. We want to make new mistakes.
We are a political home for QTAPI people to transform. Together, we learn and practice organizing skills, unlearn ancestral and collective traumas, and relearn values of abundance and interdependence. Our organizing is centered on the transformative potential of relationships and organizing.
Lavender Phoenix is sponsored by Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), a tax exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has fought for API civil and political rights for over 50 years. Contributions to Lavender Phoenix via CAA are tax-deductible.
