Title: Mutual Aid Fundraiser for Trans & Queer Immigrant Solidarity
Date: Sat, March 21
Time: 4pm-7pm (doors at 3:50pm)
Venue: The People’s Forum
NYC community members gather to make music and raise funds for a grassroots effort to support our Trans/Queer neighbors in detention, immigration proceedings, and those recently released from detention. Often isolated from their immediate families, Trans and Queer people can get lost in the U.S. immigration system. This T/Q Community Fund will support folks who don’t have families looking for them or working to secure their release. The fund will also support Trans and Queer neighbors who have recently been released from detention.
Info about Trans/Queer folks disappearing in detentions https://www.vera.org/news/ice-
Do you know someone who would benefit from this funding? You can fill out an intake form at tqcommunityfund.com and we will make sure funds are distributed.
Music by leilani patao, Violet Stanza, The Drips and Zoe Firn. Poetry by Aristilde Kirby. Grooves by Kuppi. Hosted by Flower! The artists will share revolutionary and inspiring work that meets our moment.
Amazing fundraiser items will be for sale by New York artisans, including an exciting raffle. Items will be announced leading up to the event<3
100% of proceeds go to the T/Q Community Fund!
A community table of free stuff will also be set up, including KYR info, Zines, Resource Guides, Whistles, Health and Safety Supplies, and more.
Leilani Patao is trying to figure it out, and they want out of streaming. They’re a Los Angeles-born and Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter-producer, and a recovering jack of all trades. daisy, Leilani’s latest EP was not released on streaming as a protest against unfair wages for artists, AI integration and lack of regulation, and the streaming model no longer aligning with their morals. With CEOs treating our art and our livelihoods as data to be traded, AI contributing to the destruction of our planet and the commodification of art, and any money made seeming to still end up funding genocide and systemic oppression, filling the pockets of those who Leilani speaks against, they wanted out. This release is just as much of an experiment of sound as it is an experiment of sharing this music.
Violet Stanza is a singer/songwriter whose writing ranges from pop bangers to tender ballads. Her music has earned several accolades, winning both BroadwayWorld’s Best Original Song, and the Goethe Institut’s International Music Contest. Violet can be found performing around New York, or online where her content has amassed over 800 thousand followers across platforms. She hopes to empower other queer and trans people through her art, and make the world a prettier place along the way.
Zoe Firn has a song for every mood. Wielding a guitar, her voice, and sometimes a violin, Zoe crafts earthy alt-rock tunes that “you’ll want to take home in your pocket” (according to Molly Murphy) and lyrics that “hit harder than a Mack truck” (according to Radio Free Brooklyn). She aims to connect with listeners, whether it’s an audience of 1 through a pair of headphones, a handful of friends in the back of a bar, or over 100 on a particularly celebratory night. Zoe’s debut album “Atomic Force” was released in October 2025 on Bandcamp/CDs then in December 2025 on all streaming sites excluding Spotify. And she hopes the songs stick with you long after the first listen.
THE DRIPS are a new BK based Indie band that fuses together a gnarly potion of folk, pop, & punk-rock. The coven is made up of Déa, Aspen, and Caro, who met on a moonlit night in a Dunkin-donuts parking lot. Their hex-proof cauldron is specially brewed to connect queer comrades far and wide. Transvolution, the band’s debut album, is available in physical form, as well as anywhere where artist wages are ethical and AI is prohibited.
Aristilde Kirby is a poet & performance artist from the Bronx living in Brooklyn. She has written the book Daisy & Catherine Squared (Auric Press, 2022) & the chapbook Sonnet Infinitésimal / Material Girl (Best American Experimental Writing, 2020). She is writing a couple of books riffing off ideas of math.
