Black Trans Leadership of Austin, Out Youth, The University of Texas at Austin
Project Contributors:
Black Trans Leadership of Austin – Naomi Wilson, Tabitha Hamilton, Queen Austin, Rocky Lane, Zuri Richardson, Laïs Milburn, and Sha’Nyia Baltimore.
Out Youth – Cece Flores, Sam Clubb, Danisha Baro, Sarah Kapostasy, Kayla Witcher, Emelio Garcia, and Amy Haley.
The University of Texas at Austin – Dr. Stephen Russell, Dr. Phillip W. Schnarrs, Lexie Wille, Sheridan Aguilar, and Riya Chaudhry.
About this Project
The inspiration for this project was the lack of available data focused on the needs of queer and trans Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPOC).
Instead of a traditional research approach, we sought to create a community-led survey, where members of the community of interest (in this case, QTBIPOC) drive and design the research project, and locate researchers to assist in fulfilling their research goals.
Black Trans Leadership of Austin (BTLA) worked with Out Youth to create the survey questions over the course of several months. We leaned on the project team’s collective experiences to generate the major topics of the survey.
We found that people in the QTBIPOC community face housing, transportation, employment, safety, and belonging disparities and thus focused on these areas in the survey.
Our Results
It was important for our group to present our important findings in a few different formats, including:
A one-hour lunch and learn presentation to providers and stakeholders in the community during the summer and fall of 2022
A full report of our findings
Issue briefs highlighting specific areas of findings, including: Healthcare and Mental Healthcare; Community Connection, Housing, and Transportation; Finances, Employment, and Legal; Community and Public Safety
Videos! Including longer videos describing the background of the project AND brief videos featured on social media (and a YouTube Playlist!) highlighting our findings.
You explore all of our results in one convenient location!