QTBIPOC Needs Assessment for Central Texas

 

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.

We are proud to provide the following findings from our project!