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Deaf Queer Resource Center 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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National Deaf QTPOC LGBTQ-led nonprofit based in San Francisco, CA.
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Did you know?

When the world turned its back on the AIDS pandemic, it was primarily Lesbians that stepped up and took care of our infected Gay and Bisexual siblings.

#WorldAIDSDay #LesbiansAreBaddasses #QueerHistory
December 2, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Today is World AIDS Day.

Please join us in taking time to pause and reflect on the importance of this day and to remember the many Deaf and signing loved ones, friends, and community members that were taken too soon from us by the AIDS pandemic.

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Today is World AIDS Day. Please join us in taking time to pause and reflect on the importance of this day and to remember the many Deaf and signing loved ones, friends, and community members that were taken too soon from us by the AIDS pandemic. A list of these individuals can be found at https://deafaids.info. The Names of Deaf Lost to AIDS/HIV website is updated once per year on this day. If you know of someone missing from the list and/or have an obituary, photograph, video or other information about an individual listed, or would like to share a memory (in ASL or written English) that you have about one or more individuals you knew on the list, please submit it to names@deafaids.info. If you don’t currently know your HIV status, today is a good day to make an appointment to get tested. “Testing is the only way to know for sure if you have HIV. Knowing your status means you can keep yourself and your sexual partners healthy. Being diagnosed early gives you a better chance of living a long and healthy life.” —avert.org We love you. 💜 *** [image: an AIDS ribbon with the names of Deaf and signing community members written inside it, names randomly taken from deafaids.info. Text on ribbon: “Remember Their Names” and at bottom, “Deaf Lost to AIDS | deafaids.info”. Graphic created by Drago] #WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Meet Landon Gonzales, a deaf, gay, Latinx, and Jewish actor and model studying Art and Media Design and ASL at Gallaudet. His new poem explores our relationship with time. Thank you for your beautiful work, Landon. 💜
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Keep resisting. 💜
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Image: a pumpkin pie with words: This is stolen land”. Image: map of North America with Indigenous tribes noted. Text at top: “North America prior to illegal immigration”]
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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More info and registration link in the Alt.
📅 Sunday November 23 at 4pm ET/ 1pm PT Register: tinyurl.com/2025rethinking Virtual event organized by the Catalyze Project. “Let's come together to think about what the Thanksgiving holiday means and how to continue to challenge its legacy. We will discuss how to work together to confront colonialism and defend Mother Earth. Presenters: 🔸 Eve Reyes-Aguirre (Izkaloteka Mexica Azteca), Indigenous rights advocate and organizer working for decolonization and land sovereignty, with @tonatierra_org 🔸Cindi Martin is an Anishinaabe Deaf woman from Red Lake Nation, raised in South Minneapolis. She is the Managing Director for Indigenous Interpreters Organization (IIO). 🔸Lara Kiswani is from Aqir and Beit Iksa, Palestine, and is the executive director of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) serving, and organizing thousands of working class Arabs and Muslims across the SF Bay Area. 🔸Nisrin Elamin is an Assistant Professor of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Nisrin is a member of the Sudan Solidarity Collective which provides material support to mutual aid networks and unions at the forefront of relief efforts in Sudan. *** [flyer: green background with photos of above mentioned presenters plus logos of sponsors. Text “Rethinking Thanksgiving Annual Webinar - Sunday, November 23 at 4 pm ET / 1 PM PT - ASL, Spanish and live captions”]
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Trans Day of Remembrance 2025 Today we honor the lives of our trans family who were taken from us through violence, hatred, and neglect. We remember them with love and with purpose. According to the most recent global monitoring reports, at least 281 trans and gender diverse people were murdered in the past year. These are just those that we know of. Eighty-eight percent were Black or Brown. Many were activists, sex workers, migrants, and young people. Most were killed in Latin America and the Caribbean. Many were killed in their own homes or on the street. These numbers reflect not only loss but also a global pattern of racism, misogyny, and state violence that continues to target our communities. In the United States, the Trans Remembrance Project recorded 58 deaths of trans and gender expansive people. This included 27 deaths from violence and 21 deaths from suicide. Youth made up 61 percent of the suicide cases. Today we hold space for grief and remembrance. We also commit to building a world where our trans communities can live with joy, security, and freedom. Every trans person deserves a future. ⠀ ***⠀ ⠀ [image: TDOR is fingerspelt in gray letters against a faded transgender flag. Text: “ Transgender Day of Remembrance / Deaf Queer Resource Center”. ] ⠀ #TDOR #TDOR2025 #TransgenderDayofRemembrance #Trans #Transgender #BlackTransLivesMatter #BlackTranswomenMatter #StopKillingBlackTranswomen #StopKillingBrownTranswomen #StopKillingOurTransSiblings #TransIsBeautiful #DeafLGBTQ #DeafQueer #DeafTrans #TransDeaf #DeafTransgender
November 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Did you know?⠀
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The ASL sign for ‘transgender’ is similar to the ASL sign for ‘beautiful’ but is signed on the middle of the chest. ⠀⠀
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Illustration by Carlisle Robinson (@carodoodles.bsky.social), a talented Deaf trans artist based in Canada. 💜🏳️‍⚧️🤟🏽
Did you know?⠀ ⠀ The ASL sign for ‘transgender’ is similar to the ASL sign for ‘beautiful’ but is signed on the middle of the chest. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ This illustration was created by Carlisle Robinson, a talented Deaf trans artist based in Canada. ⠀⠀ ***⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ [Image description via Carlisle: an illustration of ASL for transgender in trans pride flag color. The sign starts with hands almost like high five but slightly bent with thumb a bit inside, as if you’re holding an egg. The hand is placed on chest with side of thumb and index finger touching your chest. Then the hand is moved away from chest with fingers in more closed, the hand is rotated that your palm is facing inward toward your chest. Then last sign is all fingers touching each other at fingertips, with side of your pinkie finger touching the chest] ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ #deaftransgender #deaftrans #transgenderdeaf #deafandtrans #transgender #trans #transdayofvisibility #tdov #deafqueer #deaflgbt #deaflgbtq #lgbt #deafqueerart #deaftransart #queerasl #queersigns #americansignlanguage #transisbeautiful⠀
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Zee, a Deaf AfroAsian transgender youth shares his coming out story. 💜🏳️‍⚧️🤟🏽
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Happy Trans Awareness Week!⠀

We love you. 💜🤟🏽🏳️‍⚧️
Happy Trans Awareness Week! ⠀⠀⠀ We love you. 💜🤟🏽🏳️‍⚧️ ***⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ [image: ASL alphabet letters spelling “deaf trans” on a transgender flag. Text at bottom, “Deaf Trans Pride Deaf Queer Resource Center deafqueer”] ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ #TransIsBeautiful #DeafTrans #DeafTransgender #TransgenderDeaf #TransDeaf #DeafNonbinary #NonbinaryDeaf #DeafGenderNonConforming #DeafGenderFuck #DeafGenderExpansive #DeafQueer #DeafGenderQueer #DeafLGBTQ #TransAwareness #TransgenderAwarenessWeek #Trans #Transgender #Deaf #ASL #TransWeek #TransAwarenessWeek #FingerSpelling #TransgenderDayOfVisibility #AmericanSignLanguage #TransgenderAwareness #TransPride #DeafQueer #DeafTransPride #DeafTransgenderPride
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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More in the Alt.
Community platforms like ours do not build themselves overnight. Every post, every follower, and every ounce of engagement takes time, care, and years of persistent labor. For some reason, there are people who feel a sense of entitlement to our social media accounts. We receive, virtually daily, messages that make demands like “Post this,” often with no context, no thanks, and no awareness that they are asking for free labor from a vastly overextended and underfunded nonprofit. That is exactly why we created a social media policy several years ago. It helps us set healthy boundaries and helps us stay focused on using our limited time and energy in ways that keep our work sustainable. You can read it here: https://bit.ly/dqrcsocialmedia Thank you in advance for understanding and honoring the ongoing love, time, and tireless labor that we pour into the Deaf Queer Resource Center to do this critical work that we do. *** [image: silhouette of a laptop with DQRC's logo on the screen with text at bottom: "The Deaf Queer Resource Center's Social Media Advertising Policy". At bottom, logos of Bluesky, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.] #DQRCSocialMediaPolicy
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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“May you never know the fear of having your human rights debated every election season, or the betrayal and heartbreak of watching loved ones vote against your right to exist. May you never know what it’s like to be trans in a world filled with so much hate it wants to erase your existence simply for living your authentic truth.” —Rye Chase *** [image: progressive Pride flag on left with above quote on right. DQRC’s logo at the bottom] #QueerRightsAreHumanRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Love wins.
“BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide. Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.” Thank you, @aclu_nationwide *** [image: screenshot of social media post with above text from ACLU] #LoveIsLove #MarriageEquality #LoveWins #SCOTUS
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Intersex liberation is part of our collective struggle for justice.

DQRC celebrates intersex people and their fight for self-determination, dignity, and pride. 💛💜
Intersex liberation is part of our collective struggle for justice. DQRC celebrates intersex people and their fight for self-determination, dignity, and pride. 💛💜 *** [image: yellow background with purple circle (Intersex flag) with text: Deaf Intersex People Exist”] #IntersexDayOfSolidarity #DeafIntersex #DeafIntersexPeopleExist
November 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Today, the Supreme Court of the United States gave Donald Trump the power to enforce a cruel policy he implemented earlier this year that blocks transgender and nonbinary people from having passports that reflect who we are. This is state-sanctioned erasure and a direct attack on our freedom, safety, and dignity. Our identities are not up for debate. No court can ever erase who we are. No court can ever erase our truth. Trans rights are human rights, and come what may, we must keep resisting, keep organizing, and keep fighting with love for a future rooted in justice, liberation, and freedom for each and every one of us. *** [image: trans flag background with text and title: “No Court Can Erase Us”. DQRC’s logo at the bottom] #WeWillNotBeErased #TransIsBeautiful #TransRights #TransPassports #OrrVsTrump #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #Transgender #Trans #Nonbinary #TransgenderRights #NonbinaryRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Vote!

Your vote matters! It really does.
Vote! Your vote matters! It really does. *** [image: a button pin with “Deaf Queers Vote”. DQRC’s “super” logo at the top. Small text at the bottom, “Your vote matters!”] #DeafQueersVote #DeafQueerVote #DeafLGBTQVote #DeafLGBTQPeopleVote #QueerPeopleVote #DeafQueer #DeafQueers #DeafLGBTQ #QueerDeaf #LGBTQVote #QueerVote #DeafVote #Vote #DeafQueerPeopleVote #Election25
November 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Día de los Muertos

Honoring our ancestors and recently departed loved ones. 💜⠀
⠀ Día de los Muertos Honoring our ancestors and recently departed loved ones. 💜⠀ ⠀ Illustrations by Nicholas Ivins⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ***⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ [image: black background at top in white text, “Dia de los Muertos”. Two coloful Dia de los Muertos images of two couples (skeletons) is shown in the middle titled, “Ella y Ella” (left) and “El y El” (right) by artist Nicholas Ivins. At the bottom there is text, “Honoring Our Queer Ancestors & Loved Ones” and in very small text after that, “Deaf Queer Resource Center @deafqueer "Ella y Ella" and "El y EL" Illustrations  by Nicholas Ivins”]⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ #DiaDeLosMuertos #DiaDeMuertos #DayofTheDead #DiaDeLosMuertosLGBTQ #DiaDeLosMuertosLGBT #Latinx #QueerDiaDeLosMuertos #QueerLatinx #LGBTQDiadeLosMuertos #LGBTQLatinx #QueerDiaDeMuertos #LGBTDiadeMuertos #LGBTQDiaDeMuertos #QueerDayofTheDead #LGBTQDayoftheDead #LGBTQ #Queer #Los41Maricones #LaJoteria #Joteria #GayLatino #LesbianLatina #TransLatinx #HonoringOurQueerLatinxAncestors #HonoringOurLGBTQLatinxAncestors
November 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Happy Halloween! Be safe. We love you. 💜
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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An in-person event in San Francisco. ASL interpreted. Join us!

RSVP, full agenda & speaker list: bit.ly/rct-rsvp “

#LanguageJustice
image: (black background with a photo of a person wearing a kufiya. Text: “EMERGENCY EVENT - From ICE Abductions to Genocide in Gaza, Language Workers Resist. A Language Justice Forum with Respond Crisis Translation - Oct 30, 2025 - 5:30 PM - San Francisco, CA - Please RSVP for venue: bit.ly/rct-rsvp *** “Join Respond Crisis Translation as we face the current state of emergency: ICE raids targeting neighborhoods, schools, hospitals and work sites, while the U.S. state escalates fascist practices of abducting, caging, deporting, and disappearing migrants. In this moment of emergency, we invite our community to join us for a Language Justice Forum. We will hear directly from experts in interpretation and translation, crisis translators who address the injustices of the immigration system as they support migrants to challenge the abuses they face. Additionally, we will hear from survivors of language rights abuses in ICE detention, translators from G4z@, and language workers from around the world mobilizing tirelessly to fight against the language violence and abuses. We are building a network that can resist the brutality faced by migrants each day. Join us in community on October 30th. RSVP, full agenda & speaker list - bit.ly/rct-rsvp “ *** #LanguageJustice Image: (black background) Text: EMERGENCY EVENT RESPOND: Crisis Translation Language work is overlooked and grossly underfunded. As the state deploys language as a weapon of carceral violence, the impact of this erasure is far-reaching and deadly, We are fighting back. Join us for an Emergency Forum on Language Justice in the SF Bay Area, CA on 10/30: bit.ly/rct-rsvp WE REMAIN VIGILANT. WE MOBILIZE. JOIN US.
October 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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“Resistance is NOT a one lane highway. Maybe your lane is protesting, maybe your lane is organizing, maybe your lane is counseling, maybe your lane is art activism, maybe your lane is surviving the day. Do NOT feel guilty for not occupying every lane. We need all of them.” —Lindss_Tastic *** [image: screenshot of social media post (black background with white text) with above quote] #Resist
October 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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#Resist
Image: Shows screenshot from current USDA website with a photo of the Capitol and a notice at the top: “Senate Democrats have now voted 12 times to not fund the food stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Bottom line, the well has run dry. At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01. We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. They can continue to hold out for healthcare for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance.” Image: Statements from DQRC. Title: Weaponizing Hunger Is State Violence “Weaponizing Hunger Is State Violence The Trump administration's move to cut off SNAP food benefits while blaming immigrants and transgender people is state violence disguised as policy. By claiming that hunger relief depends on denying health care to trans and undocumented communities, this administration weaponizes poverty and feeds the machinery of white supremacy, transphobia, and xenophobia. Turning a public lifeline into propaganda is a cruelty that punishes those already fighting to survive. We denounce this abuse of power and the propaganda that distorts truth, fuels hate, and dehumanizes our people. We stand rooted in care, truth, and solidarity with immigrants, trans, and all oppressed communities, knowing that our collective survival is an act of resistance and our liberation is bound together.” DQRC’s logo at bottom.
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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We mourn the passing of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fearless Black trans elder who fought for liberation, dignity, and justice. From Stonewall to decades of advocacy, she taught us to resist, to love fiercely, and to care radically. Her spirit lives on in every fight for collective freedom.
We mourn the passing of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fearless Black transgender elder whose life embodied the struggle for liberation, dignity, and justice. From the Stonewall uprising to her decades of advocacy for incarcerated trans women and communities of color, Miss Major taught generations to resist oppression and love each other fiercely in the face of state violence. Her legacy is one of radical care and defiant joy, a reminder that true freedom means leaving no one behind. May her spirit continue to guide us as we fight for the world she envisioned. Rest in power, Miss Major. Your legacy and work will live on. *** Art by @translashmedia [image: colorful illustration of Miss Majors with text: “I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train & teach & love on & create families within my community & gender non-conforming people so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved & seek happiness, & share that with people that we care about.” —Miss Major Griffin-Gracy“] #RIPMissMajor #MissMajor #TransElder #TransPioneer #Stonewall #TransIcon #TransLiberation
October 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer peoples who have resisted erasure and continue to restore balance through culture, community, and love. Their leadership calls us to build a world rooted in justice, belonging, and collective care and liberation. 💜
Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor Two-Spirit and Indiqueer peoples who have resisted erasure and continue to restore balance through culture, community, and love. Their leadership calls us to build a world rooted in justice, belonging, and collective care and liberation. 💜 ⠀ ***⠀ ⠀ [image: Indigenous Two Spirit couple Adrian and Sean. Photo by Ceylon Gray]⠀ ⠀ #IndigenousPeoplesDay #TwoSpirit #2Spirit #Indigiqueer #TwoSpiritCouple #Indigenous #Native #NativeAmerican #QueerLove
October 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM