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Diversity Alliance of the Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA (2026)

03/31/2026

On Transgender Day of Visibility, SCOTUS overturned Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy despite overwhelming evidence that these practices cause irreparable harm.

Today, we also saw the emails. The posts. The speeches.
Visibility is not a box to check for DEI.

When organizations cannot get even the basic history of TDOV right, it raises a serious question about the depth of their commitment. Accuracy is not a detail, it is a baseline. If the fundamentals are treated as an afterthought, so is the community.

At a moment when real protections are being rolled back, we cannot afford performative allyship.

We need:

Funding that reaches trans-led, community-based work.

Messaging rooted in care, accuracy, and lived understanding.

Accountability for where commitments turn into action and where they don’t.

Because when “safe spaces” are built on virtue signaling instead of substance, they are not safe at all.

Visibility is not symbolic. It is a responsibility.

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03/24/2026

$31 for March 31.

Trans Day of Visibility is coming.
And visibility has never been free.

It costs safety.
It costs energy.
It costs people their lives.

So this week, we’re asking our community to show up in a tangible way:

💗 Donate $31 in honor of March 31 (TDOV)
💗 Help us keep showing up, protecting, and supporting our community
💗 Be part of something visible, real, and collective

If $31 isn’t accessible, give what you can.
If you can give more, help carry someone else.

This isn’t just a donation.
It’s a statement.

We are still here.
We are still visible.
And we are not doing this alone.

Scan the QR code, donate through our link tree, or donate various ways through our website.

03/23/2026

Join us for Trans Day of Visibility in Tacoma.

We’re coming together for a full day of community, reflection, and recognition:

Tacoma Dome Flag Raise
9:30 AM – Parking Lot G

Tell Your Story – Tacoma Historical Society
1:00–3:00 PM (drop-in event; come anytime)

City Proclamation at Tacoma City Hall
5:00 PM

This day is about visibility—but also about who shows up, who builds, and who continues to stand with our community.

Come for one moment or stay for the whole day. We’d love to see you there.

More information can be found on our website.

03/07/2026

Tell Your Story

This year, we are partnering with the Tacoma Historical Society to create a three-part storytelling series centered on trans voices in Tacoma.

Across the year, community members will be invited to share their stories through writing, art, and reflection as we mark three important moments:

Trans Day of Visibility (March 31st) – awareness and visibility
Trans Week of Celebration (August 10-15th) – uplifting joy and celebration
Trans Day of Remembrance (November 20th) – honoring those we carry with us

Together we will build a living record of trans life in Tacoma, one story at a time.

Our first event will take place this month for Trans Day of Visibility:

Tuesday, March 31
1–3 PM
Tacoma Historical Society
406 Tacoma Ave S

Stop by, share your story, and help us shape the history of our community.

Co-hosted by DAPS and Tacoma Historical Society.

02/28/2026

A huge thank you to Dough Joy Donuts for fueling the start of our 5-Year Anniversary Training Retreat 🍩

As we step into a weekend of strategy, training, and building the future of DAPS, there’s something kind of magical about starting a big, meaningful weekend with good people and really good donuts.

We’re grateful. Truly.

If you haven’t checked them out yet… consider this your sign.

02/28/2026

Five years ago, DAPS was just an idea — a spark, a refusal, a belief that our community could build something better for ourselves.

This weekend, we gather to honor that spark.

We’re coming together for our 5-Year Anniversary Training Retreat — a space for strategy, growth, and deep community care. Over the course of the weekend, we’ll be:

• Mapping out our 2026 strategy and the next five years of DAPS

• Building and strengthening the programs that live under our umbrella

• Training and leveling up our Board and SOOP teams

• Investing in the future of community-led safety, care, and resilience

But more than anything — we’re making space to be together.

To breathe.
To reflect.
To dream bigger than we did five years ago.

Because DAPS has never just been an organization.
It’s a living, growing ecosystem of people who show up — for each other, every time.

This weekend is about legacy.
What we’ve built.
What we’re building.
And what we refuse to let fall.

Here’s to five years — and the next five that will change everything.

02/23/2026

Our amazing Board Chair Fran installed a new flagpole in their yard and lifted a progress flag this afternoon at their home.

We are absolutely honored to have a Board and ED who have always been involved in the greater community and never treated their positions as a 9-5.

Thank you for showing up, doing the work, and living by example.

02/18/2026

We are honored to have helped secure the Carnival of Destiny Masquerade Ball tonight. It was at the gorgeous Bindery!

We are also excited to have gotten to do a sneak peek at our new uniforms! We have yet to roll them out, we are still missing a few pieces, but we are absolutely over the moon that we got to work with the amazing to develop them.

02/05/2026

Announcing Our Community-Led Safety Training & Manuals

For years, communities across Washington were told that police presence was the only way to keep Pride and other public events safe. Through our work with DAPS and SOOP, we helped demonstrate and spread a different model—one that showed community-led safety, medical response, and accessibility can be effective when done intentionally and well.

That work built trust. It showed cities and organizers that “no police at Pride” was not reckless, but responsible when grounded in preparation, coordination, and care. After years of being asked to share how we do this, we are now in active conversations with cities, first responders, organizers, and community partners who want to learn how to build these systems responsibly.

At the same time, we’ve seen too many events struggle. Organizers are often under-resourced, rushed, and unsure where to start. We've also seen, safety planning get pushed to the end and accessibility forgotten or added last-minute. Fear takes over, and police or poorly coordinated security are added in ways that create new risks instead of reducing them.

This isn’t necessarily a failure of values.

It’s a lack of usable, shared models.

That’s why we are formally launching our Community-Led Safety Training Program and Manual.

This work brings together years of lived experience, collectively thousands of hours of professional training and credentialing, real incident response, and hard lessons learned. It is trauma-informed, accessibility-centered, and designed to support events of all kinds—while being grounded in the realities faced by marginalized communities most impacted by both violence and over-policing.

This training isn’t about fear or perfection.
It’s about preparedness, harm reduction, and making better decisions under pressure.

We’re offering this because we’ve seen what works—and what doesn’t. Our goal is to make community-led safety replicable, ethical, and sustainable, so organizers aren’t forced to improvise or compromise their values when it matters most.

This is the next step in work we’ve already been doing.

And we’re ready to share it.

02/05/2026

Announcing Our Community-Led Safety Training & Manuals

For years, communities across Washington were told that police presence was the only way to keep Pride and other public events safe. Through our work with DAPS and SOOP, we helped demonstrate and spread a different model—one that showed community-led safety, medical response, and accessibility can be effective when done intentionally and well.

That work built trust. It showed cities and organizers that “no police at Pride” was not reckless, but responsible when grounded in preparation, coordination, and care. After years of being asked to share how we do this, we are now in active conversations with cities, first responders, organizers, and community partners who want to learn how to build these systems responsibly.

At the same time, we’ve seen too many events struggle. Organizers are often under-resourced, rushed, and unsure where to start. We've also seen, safety planning get pushed to the end and accessibility forgotten or added last-minute. Fear takes over, and police or poorly coordinated security are added in ways that create new risks instead of reducing them.

This isn’t necessarily a failure of values.

It’s a lack of usable, shared models.

That’s why we are formally launching our Community-Led Safety Training Program and Manual.

This work brings together years of lived experience, collectively thousands of hours of professional training and credentialing, real incident response, and hard lessons learned. It is trauma-informed, accessibility-centered, and designed to support events of all kinds—while being grounded in the realities faced by marginalized communities most impacted by both violence and over-policing.

This training isn’t about fear or perfection.
It’s about preparedness, harm reduction, and making better decisions under pressure.

We’re offering this because we’ve seen what works—and what doesn’t. Our goal is to make community-led safety replicable, ethical, and sustainable, so organizers aren’t forced to improvise or compromise their values when it matters most.

This is the next step in work we’ve already been doing.

And we’re ready to share it.

02/05/2026

✨ ANNOUNCEMENT: TRANS WEEK OF CELEBRATION ✨

We’re excited to officially share that this August, we will be launching Trans Week of Celebration in Tacoma — a community-led, week-long celebration of trans joy, culture, history, and care in the South Sound.

Over the years, many people have asked about creating a Trans Pride Tacoma. We’ve listened closely, reflected deeply, and chosen to build something that feels sustainable, collaborative, and rooted in community needs: not a single event, but a full week of celebration across Tacoma, created in partnership with community members and organizations throughout the city.
This week will include multiple events — art, panels, films, family-friendly gatherings, resources, and celebration — created with our community, not siloed under a single organization. A planning committee will help shape the week, and there will be many ways to get involved, whether through partner organizations or through the events themselves.

We’re especially honored to share that Saturday, August 15, will anchor the week as Trans Day of Celebration (TDOC) — marking the 60th anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, a pivotal moment in trans resistance and history. This day will center joy, visibility, and community, honoring our lineage by celebrating who we are today.

As many know, our Executive Director is a former producer and operations director for large-scale trans events and has overseen health, safety, and accessibility for years. With that experience — and with strong community partnerships — we feel ready to help bring Trans Pride to the South End in a way that is thoughtful, safe, and expansive.
More details, events, and ways to participate will be shared soon on our website.

If you’re interested in volunteering, partnering, or being part of the planning process, please reach out to [email protected]

This is just the beginning — and we can’t wait to build it together.

*Watch our website and social media platforms for ways to get involved, event updates, and more community partner additions

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