B4CK

10/30/2025

💥 QU**RS FEED THE CITY! 💥
CQEC is teaming up with a coalition of q***r + allied orgs across Chattanooga to make sure no one goes hungry. 🥘✨
We’re setting up food drive drop-offs around the city, stay tuned for details coming in the next day 👀
Right now we’re on the hunt for plastic barrels like these!
Beat up? Ugly? Perfect.
💸 We don’t mind paying!
Help us level up from soggy cardboard and build a more sustainable food collection system. And we LOVE a good up-cycle. ✨
📩 DM us, comment, or email howdy@chattq***rempowerment.org with any leads or extras you can share.

***rsfeedthecity

10/27/2025

06/12/2024

Weekend 3 of 5!! Join us at Sweetwater PRIDE 2024!!! The Seed Theatre will be out there repping our q***r community 100% and we will have chest compression binders available FOR FREE for folks who need them!!

01/05/2024

Pronouns actually don't even have to have anything to do with your gender at all! Sometimes one just feels better over the other even if it doesn't necessarily "match" your gender! Who cares! As long as you're comfortable that's all that truly matters!

01/04/2024

Gender affirming care is super important in mitigating dysphoria and the feelings of depression, anxiety, and distress that comes with it! Gender affirming care allows a trans person to feel at home in themselves and their bodies! For those who wish to medically transition it is so important that they have the right, and the means to do so! Here's a list of most all major phycological associations that endorse gender affirming care!

https://transhealthproject.org/resources/medical-organization-statements/

01/03/2024

Trans terms time! What is cisgender? And how does it differ from transgender? Cisgender means a person who identifies as the gender they were assigned at birth, and transgender means a person who doesn't identify as the gender they were assigned at birth! Neither one is offensive! Simply a descriptor!

12/30/2023

So, we are hearing the word "q***r", but who can say it? Some people in the LGBTQ+ community do find this term derogatory, as it has a historically discriminatory connotation. However, we do see many (especially younger) members of the LGBTQ+ community reclaim it. It is important to always ask an individual how they are okay being referred to and to never assume. If you are not LGBTQ+, stay on the safe side and not say "q***r", instead, say "LGBTQ+"

12/29/2023

All bodies are beautiful. Trans bodies, cis bodies, disabled bodies, able bodies, colored bodies, big bodies, little bodies, all the bodies. Y'all are beautiful. 🥰

12/28/2023

"Passing" refers to when a trans person "passes" as their gender identity through expression - say, a trans guy looks like a cis guy. However, it is difficult for trans people who are unable to transition as much as they want or express traits that are different from their gender identity (say, a feminine trans guy). Passing can empower some trans people, but for others it is a hinderance and burden from expressing themselves in a way they truly feel comfortable with. You are valid if you don't "pass", you are trans enough, and you don't have to conform to certain gender roles just to feel that way.

12/24/2023

LET'S TALK BINDER SAFETY!!
In order to stay safe and healthy while living as your most authentic self there are a couple good rules to stick to!
Don't wear binders for longer than 9 hours!
Never sleep in your binder!
Skip 1-2 days a week!
And if you experience pain, discomfort, or trouble breathing, then take your binder off!

12/23/2023

The transgender umbrella describes how both binary genders and not binary genders can fall under the term transgender. Trans men and women that are binary in their gender are binary transgender, but those who are not binary in their gender fall under the umbrella of non-binary, which is under the larger transgender umbrella! Wordy, I know. It's important to recognize that not everyone identifies with this, but it is a great way to see that the word transgender means that someone has a gender identity or gender expression that differs from the sex/gender that they were assigned at birth.