A collection of tips, tools, and resources to make online spaces more inclusive, accessible, safe, and supported—by and for queer and trans Korean Americans and brought to you by KQTx National Network.
KQTx (Korean Queer & Transgender National Network) is a grassroots, volunteer-led national network of organizations, community formations, and individuals based in the United States. We are aligned across shared principles and commitments, working towards the equality, acceptance, and liberation of all queer and transgender people of Korean descent (KQTs).
We are actively building a support network of strong, interdependent relationships and formations in which KQTs are connecting with the many intersections of their identities as a powerful source of cultural resilience and resistance.
To learn more about KQTx National Network, visit kqtx.net
This toolkit emerges in the middle of a global pandemic. It also emerges in the wake of the powerful racial justice uprisings of 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd, which have inspired and generated massive structural change in all parts of the world.
In this historical time of transformation, many members of the KQT community are being activated: dreaming and creating the spaces, the resources they need to access care, mutual aid, political education, healing, and joy, among so many other points of KQT cultural creation and connection.
What are your dreams for our community? Are you someone who feels passionate about gathering and connecting your people?
We created this toolkit to support you with practical tips and tools to facilitate safer, more inclusive and accessible spaces online for KQTs in the US and English-speaking diaspora.
We hope this will be a helpful resource for you to build and create the spaces you’ve been dreaming of for our community.
This toolkit came together through numerous conversations with KQTs about how to center belonging, safety, care, and connection in the KQT community.
Through these conversations, we gathered, brainstormed, and created helpful frameworks and tools to support anyone seeking to hold a safer, more affirming, and engaging community space for KQTs.
The resources in this toolkit are expanded upon in a live KQTx Facilitation Training—a group training where you can learn more about how to apply these frameworks and tools in practice with fellow KQTs.
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This is Version 1.0 of the KQTx Facilitator Toolkit. We intend to launch Version 1.0 with hopes of receiving feedback from the community on what content could be amended or added and what other resources could be helpful to readers.
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