A message from the organizers of the National Women’s Survey:
Take the survey now at: www.lgbtqwomensurvey.org
What is the Survey and who is it for?
We strive to create a platform for the wide range of experiences we know exist among lesbian/bi/transleasbian/nonbinary/queer/intersex people. We welcome lesbian, bi, pansexual, trans, intersex, asexual, and queer women who partner with women; trans men who want to report on their experience of partnering with women when they identified as or were perceived to be girls or women; and non-binary people who partner with or have partnered with women.
Who is doing this project?
I initiated this project and have been working to launch it for over two years. It is done under the umbrella of Justice Work, a nonprofit think tank, and is supported by many leading LGBTQ funders and partner organizations (see list on website).
You’ll recognize a lot of the members of our Advisory team as veteran queer, racial justice activists and researchers including political scientist and researcher Cathy Cohen; HIV researcher Tonia Poteat; Zami Nobla Founder Mary Anne Adams; US Transgender Survey director, Sandy James; Williams Institute’s leading scholars Bianca Wilson and Lee Badgett; founder of the Social Justice Sexuality Project at CUNY, Juan Battle; bisexual and feminist leader Loraine Hutchins; trans legal scholar and organizer Dean Spade, among others.
Our research team is led alongside me, by Dr. Jaime Grant (who co-authored the first National Transgender Discrimination Study); Dr. Alyasah Ali Sewell, Director of the Race & Policing Project at Emory University, who leads work on developing quantative approaches to racism studies and addressing racial health disparties; and Dr. Carla Sutherland, who has done groundbreaking work in global LGBTQ human rights and research
What’s unique about this survey?
This is a first-of-its-kind, national grassroots community survey of LGBTQ+ women/womxn who partner with women.
It is a study that will capture nuance and queer fabulousness as we catalogue our identities, life experiences, survival strategies, kinship structures, partnerships, and families.
We hope it will become the largest dataset of LGBTQ+ womxn’s experiences in the country and in the world.
We are asking your help in three ways:
1. Please take the survey and share with your friends and communities to which you are connected. A total of 30-40 minutes to take the survey could help change movement priorities and mainstream ideas about LGBTQ+ wimmin. You can go to the website, www.lgbtqwomensurvey.org or use this direct link: www.lgbtqwomensurvey.org/survey
2. We ask CenterLink and its members to please post about this survey to your social media accounts, and to consider emailing the link for the survey to your email lists. Attached are two graphics you can use for facebook and Instagram.
3. Please consider sharing an article or blurb about the survey in your newsletters, podcasts, publications and other materials that you share with our communities that may be coming out in the fall of 2021 (the survey is open until December). Our team would be happy to do interviews or write op-eds if that is helpful!