Eighteen months ago, Ianne Fields Stewart founded The Okra Project to address the hunger crisis facing Black transgender people today.
34% of Black trans people report living in extreme poverty. Serving people in New Jersey, Philadelphia, and New York, The Okra Project’s mission is to hire Black trans staff to visit the homes of Black trans people in need to cook healthy, home-cooked, and culturally specific meals.
when we tore up my grandma’s lawn a while back i saved any moth pupae that i found in the dirt, and the first of them hatched tonight, and she has little hearts on her wings omg