Transilient

10/01/2026

This LGBTQ History Month, we need your support.

This November, Fixin’ to Stay is headed to Atlanta to film with writer, activist, and history-maker Raquel Willis, and we need our community behind us to make it happen.
Funding trans-led work is harder than ever. As a small, independent project, community support is what makes this possible.

Your donation pays our q***r and trans Southern crew, covers travel, equipment, accessibility, and editing, and gets us to the places that need their stories told.

This film matters. Across the Southeast, q***r and trans people are organizing, building mutual aid, making art, and imagining new futures. Too often, the South is painted as somewhere to escape. We want to change that.

We want to change that story. We want people to see the South we know and recognize the LGBTQ+ Southerners who have been doing the work all along.

We’re looking for 100 people to give $25—$2,500 that goes straight to paying q***r and trans Southerners to tell their stories.

Donate $25, and we’ll thank you in the credits.
100 people. $25 each. More Southern LGBTQ+ stories, told by those living them.

Donate through the link in bio or Venmo transilient.

09/14/2026

📣 Calling all millennials! ‼️(Especially trans and q***r ones from the South who like poetry)
Transilient founder and Fixin’ to Stay director Basil V. Soper has a new chapbook out.

Pixelated blends poetry and art to explore trans millennial life at the intersection of the analog and digital worlds. Moving through hookup apps, personal archives, and landscapes across the South and Northeast, Soper traces how the internet has shaped identity, intimacy, memory, and desire.

Bodies become data. Memory becomes image. Connection gets complicated.

Pixelated asks what remains real when so much of life happens on a screen.

09/03/2026

We’re making Fixin’ to Stay because LGBTQ+ Southerners deserve to tell our own stories.

We want to show the South we know: complicated, beautiful, funny, creative, and full of people building lives and taking care of each other. It’s a place filled with progressive people going head to head with deep historical repression using little resources to do it.

And we need your help to keep going.

Every donation helps our q***r and trans Southern crew get back on the road, pay the people making this film, travel to the communities whose stories we’re documenting, and ultimately bring Fixin’ to Stay to audiences across the country.

Independent filmmaking is expensive. But it also means we can tell this story on our own terms, with the people it represents behind the camera.

If you believe LGBTQ+ Southerners deserve to be seen in all our complexity, please donate to Fixin’ to Stay.

Even a small gift helps us keep telling this story.

Help us make this film. Thank you so much for all of your support and sticking together during such trying times.

DONATE AT THE LINK IN OUR BIO or Venmo: transilient

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06/28/2026

06/23/2026

Meet Daniel, aka Blue Ridge Parkgay.

A q***r Appalachian singer-songwriter based in Asheville, NC, Daniel creates music that feels right at home in the world of Fixin’ to Stay. Blending the rich tradition of Southern storytelling with honest, and joyful narratives, his songs capture what it means to build a life, a community, and a sense of belonging in the South.

When we met Daniel, he performed his grant-winning single, “Where I’m From,” a powerful reflection on identity, place, and q***r power.

Artists like Daniel remind us that q***r stories have always been part of Appalachia’s past, present, and future.

Stay tuned as we continue to spotlight the South’s LGBTQ community, places, and stories while filming our documentary, Fixin’ to Stay.

More about Fixin’ to Stay here: https://wearetransilient.com/fixin-to-stay (link in bio)

CREATIVE:
Director: Basil Vaughn Soper Basil Vaughn Soper
Producer: Mikaela Reid Mikaela Reid
DP: RBJ (Rebecca Branson Jones) Rebecca Branson Jones
PA: Moraes “Mo” de Oliveira Barbosa Eduardo Moraes de Oliveira Barbosa
Assistant to the DP: Eric Byrer Eric Byrer
2nd Camera: Aarionna Clackler aarionna blu
Edited by: Basil Vaughn Soper

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06/17/2026

Meet Azrael Máel Eóin. Azrael

Acrobat. Artist. Southerner.

Splitting time between Asheville, NC, and Memphis, TN, Azrael uses movement to explore what words sometimes can’t. Their latest work examines the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, asking what it means to stay, rebuild, and carry grief in a changing landscape.

As Fixin’ to Stay follows stories across the Southeast and focuses on Western North Carolina and Memphis, we’re lucky to have met Azrael, whose work helps us understand q***r and trans power in the South beyond headlines and statistics. Through aerial performance and physical storytelling, he is exploring how communities adapt after disaster and what remains when the floodwaters recede.

The story of the South is not just one of survival. It’s one of creativity, connection, and finding new ways to hold each other up.

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06/02/2026

THIS FRIDAY! Free popcorn! Free candy! Amazing local LGBTQ film makers. Come see the trailer for ’s Whistle Down Wind and a reel from Fixin’ to Stay. Also! You can enter to win very gay raffle prizes.
DayTrip
Asheville, NC
8 PM- 10 PM ET
$5 donation at the door

05/14/2026

Southerners aren’t the enemy. Throwing us away means throwing away some of the most vulnerable and marginalized people in the country. We’ll still continue to fight back and do the work regardless but hating the South means your politics are myopic,to say it kindly. There must be solidarity with Southern people if we are to ever live in a country that stands up against fascist politicians and billionaires, where all people have bodily autonomy, where racial justice looks like actual justice and freedom, a world where trans and q***r people aren’t demonized, where rich pedophiles are held accountable, where the working class can survive, and we become something more than “climate resilient” and live in reciprocity with nature.

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05/07/2026

We’re excited to invite y’all to a special Pride Month fundraiser for Fixin’ to Stay on Friday, June 5th from 8 PM–10 PM at .avl in Asheville, NC!

Fixin’ to Stay is our upcoming documentary which challenges stereotypes about the Southeast by centering q***r and trans Southerners who are building q***r power, mutual aid networks, and progress across the region.

We’ll be screening our newest reel from the film alongside the trailer for Whistle Down Wind by , a q***r coming-of-age feature directed by and filmed entirely in Western North Carolina, with support from Campaign for Southern Equality, Cucalorus, the New Orleans Film Festival, and more.

Transilient has previously reached national and international audiences through our traveling trans documentary project, with coverage in Refinery29, OUT, an.schlage, Buzzfeed, and more. We’ve always been committed to skill-sharing and creating pathways for trans and q***r creators to break into documentary storytelling. The fundraiser helps us to keep doing this work!

📍 DayTrip
🗓 Friday: June 5, 2026
⏰ 8 PM–10 PM
🎟 $5 entry

Come watch, connect, and support q***r Southern filmmaking and enter a very gay raffle!! 🌈

The raffle featuring prizes from some of our local favorites (plus a few others!!):






SEE YOU THERE!!

04/15/2026

Day 2 of 3 shooting in Western NC for Fixin’ to Stay. We went to the parkway this am and then filmed with the incredible ! We even got a private performance! Follow him!

Parkway photos by