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About us
We are a group of trans, non-binary, and gender-questioning space holders working toward creating a supportive community in Leiden & The Hague. We organize peer support groups ran for our community.
Our Vision & Mission
Our Vision & Mission
Our Vision: what future do we dream of?
We imagine a world rooted in (mutual) care where we, as trans* people, can collectively tend to our needs in a way that goes beyond existing interlocking systems of oppression. We envision worlds where we can all dream, embody, and build care that advances our collective liberation, starting by transforming our self and our relationships.
Our Mission: what do we do today to move towards this future?
We hold spaces of collective care by facilitating peer support groups and community activities. We offer a space and community of practice, where through care-full interactions, we experiment, build connections, and share experiences, resources and strategies for care.
*We use an expansive definition of trans*: anyone who feels connected is welcome. We want to include anyone who is questioning, not cisgender, trans, non-binary, intersex, agender, genderfluid, or in another way genderqueer.
Our Values: what we commit to, with each other
Our Values: what we commit to, with each other
Collective Care
We hold spaces where we co-create a culture of care. We facilitate so that we all can recognise, express, and tend to our own and other’s needs.
Together, we build relationships where we can show up authentically and vulnerably – ask for, receive, and take what we need and offer and give what we can.
Through connection, we build interdependence that fosters our survival and healing. We share pain, and anger, joys, pleasures, and celebration that sustains our community.
(Un) Learning
Social and internalized (cis-hetero-patriarchal, capitalist, colonial, racist) violence make it difficult for us to engage in care. Together, we nurture spaces to unlearn harmful behaviors and learn new care practices.
Care is uncertain, messy, and at times uncomfortable; we make space for experiments and for making mistakes. We learn by doing; we dedicate time to reflection, exchange, and consensus-making, even if this makes us ‘slow’.
We listen deeply and learn about the needs of our community, with particular attention to oue positionalities. Change is constant, we continuously adapt and transform with our shifting needs and capacities.
Trust
We "move at the speed of trust," care-fully building our resilience for experimenting and practicing new ways of being and relating. We attentively create conditions for trust to develop, including honoring our commitments; being transparent about our roles, expectations, and limitations; centering consent and curiosity; interrupting and attending to harm; and respecting confidentiality.
By building trust, we want to create safety that moves us through fear, discomfort, and shame and empowers us to hold ourselves and each other accountable, to express our needs honestly, to ask for care without guilt, and to offer care without assumptions.
^ quote by adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy
(Re) Imagining
To build the worlds we want to live in, we first have to imagine these worlds. We exercise our imagination, inviting creativity and hope, to envision many paths to a future filled with caring ways to relate to each other.
Meet the Team
Amix
Amix
she/they
she/they
Facilitator and Technical Support.
Amix is T4T’s imagineer and co-founder. They are queer, non-binary, southeast asian, community organizer, and sustainability advisor living in The Hague. They focus on healing justice, pleasure activism, decolonial facilitation, and mutual aid efforts beyond borders. Amix is a systems thinker and strategist who enjoys supporting organizations in designing structures built on transformative justice practices, shared power and decentralisation.
Facilitation style: Deep listening, asking questions, exploring healing through art, practicing slowness and paying attention to the soma.
Coaching style: Deep listening, ask question and supporting you in getting unstuck and finding clarity and a path forward.
Jules
Jules
they/them
they/them
Facilitator and Technical Support.
Learner of queer theory and care politics - towards disrupting and healing. T4T is a space where I practice tenderness, slowness and courage.
I love cats, snails, tofu and pine trees!
Wren
they/them
Wren
they/them
Facilitator.
I'm a recent master's graduate (read, unemployed) in social policy. My academic and professional interests lie on the intersection of LGBTQ+ rights and mobility justice. Things I love include bouldering/climbing, baking and drinking tea :)
Agnese
they/she
Agnese
they/she
Facilitator.
After completing a Research Master in Clinical and Health Psychology at Leiden University, I’ve seen firsthand the lack of support for students transitioning into the workforce. If you’re genderqueer and somewhat radical—not just working to pay bills but striving for real community impact, or refusing to hide your identity for 40 hours a week—you’re likely facing even greater challenges.
After a year and a half behind the scenes at T4T, I’m ready to step into a facilitator role, applying my psychology training while (un)learning and growing in a decolonized, community-centered way alongside my peers.
Gio
he/they
Gio
he/they
Facilitator.
Learning resilience through community care, enthusiast about trans joy!
MSc at Erasmus University in Sociology - Governance of Migration and Diversity.
Ander Damiano
he/him
Ander Damiano
he/him
Facilitator.
Always on a side quest, but learning to mindfully appreciate the in-between moments☀️
Passionate about creative self-expression through poetry and music, spending time outdoors and finding new ways to practice my values in my everyday life.
(Re)exploring care in spirituality🌱
Studying Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (BA), minoring in Game Studies.
Intern as Teaching Assistant at Leiden University and Resident Assistant for student housing.
Sally
she/her
Sally
she/her
Facilitator.
BSc Psychology student at Leiden University. Peer Facilitator. Sentimental, sappy and lover of stories. Loves writing, talking, and people above all.
Marisha
they/she
Marisha
they/she
Facilitator.
Trying to romanticise my life like I’m in a cool queer movie. While you’re reading this, I’m probably daydreaming, thinking about my next tattoo, planning a queer hangout, overanalysing a conversation from days ago, or drinking tea while pretending to be productive.
Gre
they/them
Gre
they/them
Facilitator.
I'm passionate about queer silly things, mending other people's favorite socks, dreaming and practicing new worlds, all things Care, and anti-ableist naps!
Za
Any/all
Za
Any/all
Facilitator.
Feeling, philosophizing, and forever being amazed by and furious at the world.
Lucy Piersma
She/her
Lucy Piersma
She/her
Technical Support.
I enjoy volunteer work and community building, finding new paths to move forward in a society increasingly focused on making us disappear from the path all together. I find joy in helping realize the dreams of others, and through this my own dreams. I have deep love for the arts especially in their narrative forms and my own background lays in history and literary theory, with a focus on relationship between gender and speculative fiction.
Liv
she/they
Liv
she/they
Technical Support.
Junior Lecturer in Political Science. Passionate about trans politics, firm believer that change starts from local community building.
Sonia
she/her
Sonia
she/her
Technical Support and Consultant.
Writer with a love for forests and lakes.
Former support group member. Student of BA Urban Studies and a member of the Leiden Faculty of Humanities Student Advisory Group Diversity, Inclusion, and Wellbeing.
Join the team!
Join the team!
We are looking for facilitators who are interested in helping other trans, non-binary, and questioning people.
Send an email to
t4tcarecollective@gmail.com
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