As the COVID-19 pandemic impacts all of our day-to-day lives, it's important we all understand how the changing policies impact us as well.

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Governor Inslee has extended and *expanded* the eviction moratorium to ban late fees, ban rent increases, and more! In addition, many other localities have passed other local protections.

Sign up here, and submit questions, to learn about what protects we, as renters, have from our state, county, and city governments.

What: Tenants Rights Q&A session with Edmund Witter, KCBA lawyer
When: 11AM, Tuesday, April 21
How: We will send you a zoom link on Monday!
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On Thursday 4/23/20 from 6pm-8pm, U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle is hosting an online screening of the 1999 film Paradise Bent: Gender Diversity in Samoa followed by Talanoa (dialogue).

If you are interested in joining us that evening, please register using the following link: https://bit.ly/3bcEGkr

When you register, you will receive an invite via email with a Teams link that you will be using to join us that evening.

Microsoft Teams can be accessed by downloading the application when you receive the invitation to join. Or it can be accessed via the web through the link provided in your invitation to join.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact us on here or by email at tepa@utopiaseattle.org.

GLAAD will host “Together in Pride: You are Not Alone,” a livestream event on Sunday, April 26 at 5pm PT on GLAAD’s YouTube channel and Facebook Live. The event will highlight the LGBTQ response to COVID-19 and amplify messages of acceptance and affirmation to the LGBTQ community and people living with HIV during this unprecedented time. The livestream will raise funds for LGBTQ community centers that are members of CenterLink.

Presented by: Seattle Trans & Nonbinary Community
Online video meetup using Zoom, for the Seattle Trans & Nonbinary Community! Check-in with your fellow trans/nonbinary community members, say hi, hang out.

In this stay-at-home world, video meetups are becoming a wonderful way for many to combat social isolation, meet others, and build social support.

Please join if at all interested! This is new for all of us, so most of us will not know each other. If you are socially anxious, this is a good opportunity to see others in the community, and you can always drop off if it becomes too much. ☺️

Join Gay City May 5 as they speak to Daniel Ediger of the Northwest Justice Project and Washington Law Help who will reveal your rights as a tenant in light of COVID-19. Register today for more information!

Queer Community Conversations is an online conversation with our community where we discuss the concerns affecting LGBTQ people in Washington State during COVID-19, share queer-affirming resources, and create a space for LGBTQ voices to be heard.

Translations: Seattle Transgender Online Film Festival is a groundbreaking film festival that provides the Pacific Northwest with a venue for films by, for, and about transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse people and the issues facing the community. Launched in 2006, Translations places emphasis on visibility and positive representations. In 2020, we are going online in partnership with the Northwest Film Forum.

Tickets to individual events are $0-25 sliding scale.
Festival passes are $50, $75, or $100 sliding scale.

https://threedollarbillcinema.org/translations/films

In honor of Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle is proud to present a special online TransAction screening of the film 'Leitis in Waiting' followed by Talanoa with Leiti and Transgender activist Joleen Mataele who is featured in the film. "Leitis in Waiting" is the story of Joey Mataele and the Tonga leitis, an intrepid group of native transgender women fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in their South Pacific Kingdom. The film follows Joey, a devout Catholic of noble descent, as she organizes an exuberant beauty pageant presided over by a princess, provides shelter and training for a young contestant rejected by her family, and spars with American-financed evangelicals threatening to resurrect colonial-era laws that would criminalize the leitis' lives. With unexpected humor and extraordinary access to the Kingdom's royals and religious leaders, Joey's emotional journey reveals what it means to be different in a society ruled by tradition, and what it takes to be accepted without forsaking who you are.

Please tune in to U.T.O.P.A. Seattle's facebook page or youtube channel on May 7, 2020 Thursday evening at 7pm to watch with us and hear from the amazing Joleen Mataele.

Real Talk Support Group for Queer & Trans Black Indigenous People of Color will now be offered virtually. We understand that during this time people are restricted to their homes and not able to attend in group gatherings including support/social groups that benefit them, so U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle will begin providing this space virtually for the QTBIPOC community. if you are interested in attending, we ask that you register with an email so we can send you the link to join the support group on Tuesday April 14th from 6pm to 8pm. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to our Community Engagement Coordinator Adrianna Suluai @206-653-1941 or by email @ Adrianna@utopiaseattle.org.

Regirster Link: https://bit.ly/2L4I19y

Members of Gay City's Youth Advisory Council will go live on the @YAMWashington and @GayCity Instagram accounts to talk about ways to support LGBTQ+ youth in quarantine, how they have been supported, how to keep busy, what’s been bringing them joy, and more! Join them weekly on Sundays starting at 3:30PM