Seattle Trans Joy
creating spaces by and for local trans & nonbinary community
Organized by local majority BIPOC trans & nonbinary community members as Seattle Trans Joy <3
Our events for 2024 are to be announced!
The best way to keep up with new events is to follow our Instagram account or to sign up for our e-mail list below.
Our e-mail list
We'll send you e-mails about upcoming events. We won't send a lot!
Who are we?
We're a majority-BIPOC group of organizers creating events & spaces for the local trans & nonbinary community. <3We started in 2021 by Jerika Che (a mixed Korean nonbinary trans person in our community) with an idea for a little picnic for trans folks, that ended up with hundreds of trans & nonbinary people showing up! It just grew from there. It was obvious there is such an enormous unmet need for trans connection & community here.In 2022, we started an experiment with two Trans Camps -- private trans & nonbinary group camps for 20-45 trans & nonbinary adults (>50% BIPOC) in our beautiful natural surroundings to create deeper community connection and heal in nature.In 2023, we became a group of majority-BIPOC organizers who met each other at Trans Camps. We continued our very successful & joyful picnic, beachday, and trans camps -- but also experimented with our first ever TRANS LAND -- where 112 trans & nonbinary adults came together in a summer camp setting with cabins and a cafeteria and a private beach and an art barn and canoes and fields and trails and an amphitheater and lots more.For 2024 and beyond, we'll be experimenting and iterating with new events and community spaces. Our goals are to grow trans & nonbinary community by creating spaces for us to feel dignity, connection, and liberation. We want to create spaces especially for BIPOC, neurodivergent, disabled, socially isolated, and other marginalized trans & nonbinary folks to feel welcome.You can contact us at jerika@seattletransjoy.com.