Referent*in #33 - QTI*BIPoC_are
This is what QTI*BIPoC_are says about themselves:
QTI*BIPoC_are is a recovery group that has been meeting regularly since 2019. It is open to people who are Queer, Trans*, Inter*, and are also Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color. The group facilitators are two Black queer women with experience/degrees in health, medical biology, political science, and empowerment.
Our focus is on postcolonial and pre-colonial intersectional perspectives on queerness.
Who is QTI*BIPoC_are?
Rutlina has been working in BIPoC empowerment for 4 years and even longer in the field of children and youth education. She co-founded the QTIBIPoC_are empowerment group at LesMigraS 2 years ago, which she still co-leads, and has been the volunteer coordinator of the KidsCourage after-school education project for a year and a half.
Keshia has been in the education field for several years: She teaches after-school education and gives first aid classes for children and adults. She has also led a college group for people of African and Caribbean descent, and for the past year has co-led the QTI*BIPoC_are group with Rutlina.
NAYA (aka Lux Venérea) is a comedian, speaker, cook, performer, poet, cangaceira transviada. Left the Sertão of Brazil to become a travesti*. Has also left debts in the Bank of Brazil and believes that sleeping alligators are turned into purses for yt people.
You can find QTI*BIPoC_are on Instagram here: @qtibipoc_are
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