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The Power We Need: Imagining and Building Pro-Trans Majorities

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Download a version of “The Power We Need: Imagining & Building Pro-Trans Majorities” for digital reading.

In this booklet which collects “If Solidarity Is Possible, So Is a Pro-Trans Majority” and “The Yeses That Surprise You: Organizing Across the Lines of Cis and Trans,” Jess St. Louis offers insight into how our movements can build a liberated future for trans people through strategic organizing. The booklet also includes worksheets for reflection and questions for discussion with your organizing group.

This edition is not laid out for zine-style printing, but includes all the same content as the printed booklet. Order a professionally printed edition here.

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About the Author

Jess St. Louis

Jess St. Louis is a white lesbian trans woman who works as a narrative strategist and somatics practitioner and calls Greensboro, North Carolina home. She has over a decade of experience in organizing, narrative strategy, and leadership development and is currently spending her time collaborating with organizations like the Carolina Federation, running the Transformative Communicators Embodying Leadership program, and offering 1:1 leadership coaching. She is a contributing co-author to Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st Century Movements (aff) published by The New Press and has had her work published in Autostraddle. She has served as a coordinator with ReFrame, and has also worked with Center for Story-Based Strategy, RoadMap Consulting, the US Human Rights Network, the Racial Justice Action Center, and more.