Welfare Warriors Launch Survey for Low-Income LGBTGNC New Yorkers

QEJ’s Welfare Warriors Research Collaborative needs your help to distribute a survey to document issues impacting low-income LGBTGNC (gender nonconforming) folks in the NYC area.  We are a New York City-based participatory action research project of Queers for Economic Justice and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

As a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming people from many different backgrounds, we want to find out more about our community in NYC and the surrounding areas.

We value your feedback, and would appreciate if you took a few moments to respond to some questions. To go to the survey, click on the link below:

The Low Income LGBTGNC and Gender Nonconforming Peoples’ Survey

About the QEJ Welfare Warriors:
WELFARE WARRIORS

WE BUILD COMMUNITY AND TRAIN LEADERS

In the wake of the recent federal reauthorization of welfare reform, QEJ organizes low-income LGBT people on public assistance, and offers them the opportunity to become involved in fighting for a more humane, just and inclusive welfare system. Low-income LGBT people work with QEJ on:

• Leadership Development Course: This 10-week course provides low-income LGBT people with political analysis, and concrete advocacy and community organizing tools, to help them increase their ability to be effective advocates for social change.
• “Welfare Warriors”: Through events like our annual “Economic Justice Day of Action”, this grassroots community organizing effort brings LGBT people on public assistance together to work on issue-specific campaigns that will make the welfare system more inclusive of LGBT and gender-non-conforming people and their families, and more humane for all.
• Research Collaborative: We are engaged in a groundbreaking, community-led research project documenting the issues facing low-income queers.