Be.Q.T. Fellowship is an 8-week, funded, and paid fellowship cohort program opportunity for young Black, queer/trans people ages 15-22 in Los Angeles County, California, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The cross-continental container is an 8-week opportunity for youth to creatively engage their personal-political stories through shared hxstory; to build and refine their personal-political praxis; create art and/or political campaigns that seeks to contribute to increased quality of life for trans, nonbinary, gender-expansive, and 2 Spirit peoples; to build community across differently-resourced states, contexts, and places.

The program is also part of ongoing research, based on a previous iterations of curriculum, facilitation, and resulting research articles. Our previous facilitation of the Trans Youth Justice Project for youth of all backgrounds directly informed the development of the fellowship (see here for our past curriculum and research papers!) 

Program at Glance:

A. Weekend (Friday or Saturday) 2.5 Hour Whole Group Organizing Meeting- 1. Check-ins and time for connection, 2. Practices in self and collective care, 3. Discussion and skill development with organizing, movement work, and transformational justice-oriented activism.

B. Weekday Fellows Campaign Strategy Meeting 2 Hour- Meet with your fellow Be.Q.T. youth organizers to develop a campaign- discovering your collective praxis, selecting a social problem and root causes, collecting data, and brainstorming strategies and tactics.

Paid $1,200 for a total 36 organizing hours

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The work is currently stewarded by a team of Black activists, researchers, and scholars focussed on transgender health and wellbeing in their own vocations. Learn more about us here.