Mid-South Trans Nation

Super excited about being a part of this event. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

The LIAM Foundation

Words can’t fully express how grateful we are to Daniel Valdez and his team at New Urban Media.
From the first conversation to the final brand guide, you listened, inspired, and brought our vision to life with creativity, patience, and heart. Our new logo feels like us only, bolder, clearer, and more meaningful, and the brand guide gives us confidence to move forward. Thank you for believing in our story and for giving us a beautiful foundation to grow from. We’re forever grateful. ❤️

New Urban Media

Happy Juneteenth!!!

Fun fact.
About Juneteenth

That history is so powerful, especially when you think about the sheer weight of that delay—those 250,000 people were legally freed by the Emancipation Proclamation two and a half years earlier, but the news was kept from them until Major General Gordon Granger and those Union troops arrived in Galveston to enforce it.
The name "Juneteenth" itself carries so much resilience, moving from a local celebration by newly freed Texans to a widely recognized symbol of freedom and a federal holiday.

Artwork credit: Carnisha Rodgers

Fun fact did you know? Memphis TN Gay pride celebration dates back to 1970 when the Miss Memphis Review, organized by Bill Kendall, served as the city first public celebration.

Artwork credit: Carnisha Rodgers

Today is Pansexual & Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day - a moment to honor the beauty, truth, and expansiveness of attraction beyond gender.

It's a wonderful reminder that love and attraction are as vast and diverse as humanity itself.

To anyone celebrating, discovering themselves, or learning how to be a better ally today: You are seen, you are valid, and your space in this world is permanent.

Artwork credit: Carnisha Rodgers

Attention Illinois residents.

The Senate Executive Committee has scheduled HB 5095 for a committee hearing this week. Can you please submit a witness slip in support of HB 5095? The deadline is 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 6.

HB 5095 will ensure that the Illinois Secretary of State’s current self-attestation process for gender marker corrections on driver's license is established in state law. The bill also ensures that a person's gender designation form is kept confidential, protected like medical statements and only released by court order. The legislation is timely and necessary, given the increased attacks on the transgender community and the targeting of state IDs we’ve seen in other states. HB 5095 is an initiative of Equality Illinois, Legal Council for Health Justice, and the Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois.

Instructions to Submit a Witness Slip
Click here: https://ilga.gov/Senate/hearings/details/3072/22962/CreateWitnessSlip/?legislationId=166639&GaId=18&View=Create

Name, Address, City, State, Zip: complete these lines (no dots or abbreviations)

Firm/Business: name of organization if you are authorized to represent the organization. Otherwise, type "none" or "self"

Title: title within organization. Otherwise, type "self"

Email and phone: complete these lines

Representation: name of organization if you are authorized to represent the organization. Otherwise, type "self"

Legislation: select "Original Bill" from the drop-down menu

Position: select "PROPONENT" from the drop-down menu

Add Position: Click "Add Position" to finalize your position

Testimony: Check RECORD OF APPEARANCE

ILGA Terms of Agreement: check box to agree

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