The month of March ends with Trans Day of Visibility. And, at a time when trans folks are too visible, what we need to see most is outpourings of love and solidarity. Enter, you.

This year marks our fifth love letters to trans Oklahomans effort, where we invite folks to share their love for Two Spirit, trans, and gender nonconforming folks in Oklahoma through the medium of their choice.

Here are our 2026 submissions.

It's Monday night at the start of a deadline week in legislative session. I know the next few days are going to be particularly cruel, long days of policy targeting my community. As I’m scrolling through options on the TV, comfort movies, youtube streamers, the latest medical procedural, I see Come See Me in the Good Light, the documentary capturing a bit of the end of poet Andrea Gibson’s life, their story, their profound capacity for love, and their poetry. I’ve been putting off watching it because I know from every clip I’ve seen and my own experience with Andrea’s poetry that it’s going to be a big feelings watch. But there’s something about getting to choose to dive into the emotion before the policy tries to break me that seems appealing. So I press play. 

Last year for Trans Day of Visibility, I made a zine about my gender journey that I shared as part of ourLove Letters to Trans Oklahomanscampaign (which you can participate in this year,here). In it I shared some thoughts about my name, which I’ll reshare for you here.

Is it just me, or does March always hit you like a ton of bricks? After an agonizingly long January and a February that was so busy you don’t know where it went, here comes March, ready with severe weather, even more severe legislation, and the continual ask to figure out how we celebrate trans visibility when visibility is and has become increasingly more dangerous. So I pause, and try to take a breath.

Abolition geographies is a term coined by scholar and visionary Ruth Wilson Gilmore, to describe the ways in which we can visualize and build abolition by thinking about the spaces in which abolition exists, the spaces we build. Rather than focusing on the what we do without (what we’re abolishing), thinking about the spaces in which we build and make that abolition real. 

“In other words, one need not be a nationalist, nor imagine self-determination to be fixed in modern definitions of states and sovereignty, to conclude that, at the end of the day, freedom is a place. How do we find the place of freedom? More precisely, how do we make such a place over and over again?” - Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geographies

One of the most commonly used tools I see is our annual legislative tracker. A labor of love, our Executive Director has continued to build on community feedback to create a real time tool that folks across movements in Oklahoma, and folks tracking policy in Oklahoma from beyond the state, use to get the most accessible, comprehensive picture of what's moving in the Oklahoma Legislature. I’ve seen folks pull up our tracker in community meetings, in conversations about advocacy work, in coalition spaces that serve fights beyond 2SLGBTQ+ liberation…it's everywhere. Because it fills a gap, meets a need, and is made to be as accessible and helpful as possible.

We know liberation is a community effort that takes place across identities especially inside community organizing. We are working to make sure Freedom Oklahoma will always be a 2STQ+ led and centered organization, committed to doing work in a way that never compromises on behalf of those most historically marginalized and excluded, including Two Spirit folks, trans folks, queer folks, Black folks, Indigenous folks, disabled folks, poor folks, folks whose existence and/or survival has been criminalized, people living with HIV, people who use drugs, folks who engage in sex work and other pleasure and/or survival economies, folks without access to fixed housing, folks without documented immigration or citizenship status, folks who have been or are currently incarcerated, and others who have had the systems of the status quo try to treat their dignity and autonomy as anything other than inherent.

My mother, who worked at our county health department, opened my eyes to public health (and being nosey) at a very young age - television helped me fill in the gaps. So by the time HIV and AIDS rural outreach was coming to our health department I started learning more  about it on TV through programs like And The Band Played On and the Ryan White Story, but also through what I overheard in  the local health department break room (miss you girls). So I'll share with you some of the knowledge that I have about Ryan White. One, so that you'll understand a little bit about HIV and AIDS history in America, and two, in hopes to get you closer to the understanding that even in its best intended use, our criminal punishment system causes harm. Because it is just that - a punishment system. 

It’s November, and I don’t know about you, but as I look at both my personal budget, and our organizational budget, I am feeling the strain of increasing prices across the board. It’s tough. And it’s a time of year that demands a lot from each of us as we work to share community and camaraderie with one another, often over increasingly expensive meals, using increasingly unreliable transportation, in increasingly hostile environments. And so during a time of so much demand, I wanted to make sure to pause and offer my sincere gratitude to each of you. 

“When I think about the way I strive to show up in the work, I start from a place of knowledge strengthened by the work of my disabled ancestors, elders, and contemporaries who continue to help me grow in this space. Particularly to Mia Mingus, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (particularly their book Care Work), Robin Wall Kimmerer (especially Braiding Sweetgrass), Audre Lorde, Ndeye Oumou Sylla, Cole Arthur Riley, Marsha P. Johnson, Anna, and Tricia Hersey. I think about the ways my work is fundamentally different because of contemporaries like Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes, and because of community like Katrina and Nate Ward, AC Facci, Anna Langhtorn, Mauree Turner, CJ Garcia, aurelius francisco, Jo Beth Hamon, Sarah Adams, Al Phillips Shinn, Kendra Wilson-Clements, and so many others.” Come on in and read a lil more..