One of the things that keeps me grounded as we fight for liberation, is remembering those who came before us and what we are fighting for. Our fight is to be free, freedom of our own making. Freedom for us all. We get to live proudly and out loud in the bodies we choose. This continued fight is tied to life and joy - the ability to access it, create it, and preserve it. Joy is a part of our liberation work and we can't let the current authoritarians that rule the American Empire think they get to take our joy or our lives. We build our communities anyway. We make joy, even and especially amidst the darkness. We fight and we fail, and we keep living and striving towards that liberated future by freeing one another in the present.

March 2025 Monthly Update

Last year, as our team sat down to plan a Gala to bring community together, center joy, and kick off 10 years of the org that has grown and evolved to everything that Freedom Oklahoma is today, we decided that a rebrand was in order. What had previously been the Unity Gala felt too much like an endorsement of respectability politics, the request that folks be nice to the people actively trying to harm 2STGNC+ people in Oklahoma for the sake of unity. So, we launched the Freedom Futures Gala, with a theme of Freedom Futurism. Because we knew that in a moment where it can be hard to see a way through, we all needed the joy not only of space together, but of a glimpse of a future on our terms, where joy is at the center, and we’re all a part of it.