{"id":55974,"date":"2018-11-20T08:06:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T16:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-121913-349066.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=55974"},"modified":"2021-01-20T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T17:37:58","slug":"aria-said-kween-culture-initiative-san-francisco-ca-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepollinationproject.org\/aria-said-kween-culture-initiative-san-francisco-ca-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Aria Sa\u2019id, Kween Culture Initiative, San Francisco, CA, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"
The grant<\/a> was our first acknowledgement from an institution, which is important for public service projects…The grant<\/a>, to be completely honest, gave me a reinvigoration of hope in this effort when I had sort of lost it. Being a transgender woman anywhere in the world is a pretty difficult journey. Having ideas and perseverance to do them when institutions with resources don\u2019t take your efforts seriously- as a Black trans woman- can make you want to throw in the towel. At times, I asked myself, ‘Why am I committed to this? I have a job, so why am I taking on additional work when I don\u2019t need to be?’ However, I\u2019ve just been completely married to the idea that trans women of color- in particular black transgender women, are not empowered in ways that we could be. Receiving the Pollination Project grant<\/a> reinvigorated my commitment to the vision, and gave me a stronger trajectory to generate and create ideas and newer ways of thinking about this effort to be impactful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The grant was our first acknowledgement from an institution, which is important for public service projects…The grant, to be completely honest, gave me a reinvigoration of hope in this effort when I had sort of lost it. Being a transgender woman anywhere in the world is a pretty difficult journey. Having ideas and perseverance to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":67712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n