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hi my name is Tracy and I use she her

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pronouns, and I'm currently a student in

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my first year at the UCLA masters in

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Asian American Studies program, and so

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what I'm really excited about is my work

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with API EQUALITY LA, and this year we're

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really focusing on our trans justice

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campaign work I've been involved for

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about three years now, and I really seen

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how the organization has grown and

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transformed, and so this year, what we

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really want to do is to launch a

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transgender public education, education

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campaign to educate our communities

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about what trans justice looks like. As

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well as, how we can all be allies to

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trans people and to trans communities,

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and so in addition to that, I work with a

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group called Summer Activists Training,

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which is a network of coalition of

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different API organizations in Los

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Angeles that puts on a summer training

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for young API activists to learn more

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about community organizing, and direct

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action organizing, as well as, to learn

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about the work of the different

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community organizations in LA, and

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finally I work with the collective

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called The Free Radicals, and so we're

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trying to bridge the conversation

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between science and social justice, so if

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you're interested in learning more about

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that, visit us at freerads.org, and so

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for my research at UCLA, I'm really

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interested in looking at the history of

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API LGBTQ organizing over the past 10

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years in LA particularly. The history of

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API Equality LA, and so I was really

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grateful and honored to be offered a

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scholarship, so thank you so much to APIQWTC

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and please donate to the APIQWTC

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scholarship fund that makes work like

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the what makes my work possible and

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makes my education possible thank you