Trans Creators & Charities We Love ❤

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The Harry Potter Alliance is an enthusiastically trans-inclusive and trans-affirming organization. Eight percent of our members are trans and trans people have served as both senior staff and volunteers to build and organize the Harry Potter Alliance’s programs and campaigns for many years. We have a very clear stance: trans women are women, trans men are men, non-binary people are non-binary, and affirming and respecting people’s gender is kind, loving, and literally saves lives.

Fan activists recognize that there is almost no media produced without problematic creators or owners, and what matters to the Harry Potter Alliance is how fans choose to embody, share, and re-imagine the stories that meant something to them, and how fans can use our incredible, creative, imaginative communities to build a better, more just and loving world for all.

One of the way to build that world is listening to and celebrating stories and work from trans people themselves. To get you started, here is a list of trans creators and charities that staff at the HPA absolutely love!

Authors

• Akwaeke Emezi — particularly their book Pet.
• Charlie Jane Anders — check out All the Birds in the Sky.
• Aiden Thomas — first out trans author to be featured on New York Times bestseller list!
• April Daniels — check out her Nemesis series.
• Juno Dawson — Wonderland comes out May 2020.
• Kai Cheng Thom, badass trans author of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir
• Sim Kern — author published in Wizards in Space!
• Jacob Tobia — author of Sissy: The Book.
• Jackson Bird — YouTuber and author of Sorted.

Actors & Musicians

• Ian Alexander — from the OA and The Last of Us Part II.
• Leo Sheng — actor in the new L Word.
• Mal Blum — musician (references Harry Potter in at least one song).

Activists

• Jackson Bird — a personal favorite of the HPA! Jackson was on our Senior Staff for many years. ❤
• Riley J. Dennis — activist, educator, video creator.
• Lindz Amer — activist, writer, entertainer, and creator of the Queer Kid Stuff youtube channel.
• AC Dumlao — activist and educator, also works for Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund.
• Alok Vaid-Menon — activist, writer, poet, public speaker. Check out their little pocket book called Beyond the Gender Binary.

Organizations

• The Okra Project — a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People wherever we can reach them.
• Black Rainbow — a national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer, Sistergirl and Brotherboy (LGBQTI+SB) organization in the pursuit of positive health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
• TransHub by ACON — a one stop shop for everything trans health and transitioning.
• Translash — tells trans stories to save trans lives during this pivotal moment in history.
• The National Center for Transgender Equality — the nation’s leading social justice advocacy organization winning life-saving change for transgender people.

What trans creators and organizations do you love? Share them with us @thehpalliance!