Elle Halo’s Post

Check out my new TRANCE CONSULTING Elle Halo video in collaboration with Walker's Point Center for the Arts and share please and thank you!!!!!! (Edited without music) Our Queer Lens event was a success featuring great photography/ art/documentary peices/ multi media by POC and the House of History MKE project check out the exhibition at WPCA until July 6th TRANCE Consulting Transformative Radical Action Necessary for Change and Evolution Dreams to be a hub at the intersection of empowerment and artivism, Elle Halo is an award winning activist, community organizer and resource navigator, she is storyteller and a creative she uses these gifts as an event host, entertainer, facillittor and moderator social media curator and content creator. Elle has dedicated her life to building equity through visibility for QTPOC and continues to build towards lasting impact in the community. The Paris Tikka Mahon Memorial Transition Fund exists to build a better future for the black LGBTQ community of Milwaukee beginning with providing free facial laser hair removal treatments for black Transwomen in collaboration with SHEBA Sisters Helping Each other Battle Adversity / Diverse & Resilient . We hope to offer financial assistance for all trans affirming care, transition related procedures and one day with your help provide support for trans affirming surgeries. The future of the fund will be a garden and art installation in the city of Milwaukee this is a legacy peice for our community dedicated to Paris Tikka Mahon and Ronnie Grace the fund hopes to be here to support future generations of black and brown lgbt + folks the fund stands to tell the stories of trans and lgbt hate crimes anti trans murder HIV /Aids awareness infant mortality gun violence fentynl related deaths suicide, youth suicide Sickle cell anemia long Covid rare-lung disease diabetes and to honor our lost elders.You can support the transition fund by contacting Elle Halo @elle halo@gmail.com Or by donating to Love On Black Women $lobw80 with the word trans or the trans flag emoji in the description

Join me at our Queer lens event this Saturday as we continue to celebrate Pride and uplifting The Parish Tikka Mahon Memorial Transition Fund

Check out these news peices and join us Sunday June 9th in walkers point for the 20th annual MILWAUKEE PRIDE PARADE INC as @Montell Ross and I step into the space as this years grand Marshals!!!!!!! https://lnkd.in/gDeU8_7b https://lnkd.in/gQWHgMmf

Join us this Saturday Walker's Point Center for the Arts for the Community Matriarchs Tea party honoring womxn leaders in our community !!!!! I’m grateful to have been nominated for this inaugural event!!!!!! I have began a new collaborative partnership with WPCA their giving me great support for TRANCE Consulting and continuing to build out The Paris Ticca Mahone Memorial Transition Fund !!!!!! Next month join me June 15th for a special pride edition of Open Studios Queer Lens where I’ll be unveiling new projects content and screening new oral history projects I’m a part of thank you WPCA for giving space to my vision and the opportunity for artistic collaboration!!!!!

African American Roundtable #liberatemke may week of action https://lnkd.in/gNrQcpDE Register and join us this Saturday at heal the hood!!! I will also be at heal the hood this weekend representing AART and @sun seeker mke

Check out the rest of my btac posts/ photos here on my fb !!! Take aways this year: Support looks different for everybody - Tiffany Starr I'm proud of myself, my journey my work the way it continues to change and provide transformational moments for myself and others. BTAC surprised me and warmed my heart naming a scholarship for my Father/ mentor Ronnie Grace the incredibly special moments I get to be a part of is the only thing that keeps me going in my personal life as well as the work. Our small Milwaukee community has been hit so hard by immense loss theast several years, I have been battling domestic violence and safety for the last 5 years, while I may have been blessed in my professional life, I struggled everyday and am just even at a place of catching my breath and reclaiming my sanity. To loose Ronnie during this time truly hurt me, I still have been just talking to him everyday and, I'm sorry I didn't spend more time with him and that me struggling and being depressed the last few years has taken so much from me and my ability to also be there for those I love I still fight everyday to reach a place where depression anxiety trauma Triggers ptsd dysphoria do not have control over me, I would not be the woman I've grown to be without him. A man who was more of a father to me Than my own father, who loved me when my own family would not or could not who gave me the tools to become and empowered black trans women and not just fall victim to the streets since that's all yall still tell us we can become. Facilitating and leading our Empowerher committee was a task that I am happy grateful I could do alongside some great ladies in leadership my sister's Mercedes Johnson Jennifer Love Williams and Syria Jackson led Relationship Restoration and Release for the ladies. we were all nervous but hopeful and thank you to each and every lady that attended, spoke from their heart and was vulnerable with us, we laughed hugged touched and agreed, shared about our individual identities, made group poems, and released something we each most want to let go of into a bowl of water at our small alter and then back into the earth. when even with time becoming a barrier ladies shared their most vulnerable prices of themselves at the altar I was overwhelmed I weep for the girls we once were before the world tried to take everything from each of us and then some, every one of us is beautiful strong and we are more than our work or visibility. My Goal this year was to bring joy and fully step into my role, uplift our team and to uphold my own expectations for myself and I'm proud to have done that. through great loss I came back to the conference more mature grounded and hopeful. I hosted TransManifest Showcase for the 2nd time, joyed to make a space where trans art and joy could be celebrated grateful for my brother's Mick Twaun and our Dj. continued in comments below w/ links!!!!!•

I'll be there canvassing and assisting as a passport/ stamp for African-American Roundtable #LiberateMke !!!! We're having a week of campaign actions details coming soon!

African-American Roundtable Milwaukee’s Notthwest side Asset map #Liberatemke https://lnkd.in/ggxp2x-7

Just some of my photos from National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition Conference 2024!!!!!! Congratulations to Ronnie Grace Scholarship Recipients Rev Jonathan Thunderwood Award recipient Yante Turner & Emerging Leader Awardee @Mercedes Johnson My brother / daddy Yante is a brilliant organizer, a moving speaker facilitator and thought leader, I’ve learned so much from him since our first Public Allies service years, we have so many memories I am so proud to share space with him as his big sister but to witness his leadership through the years as we shared the mic for Tdor Tdov, trans rights rallies & our Black Rose Initiative Black Trans Visibility Celebration March in 2021. He has supported my growth the first grant I got on my own with Juvenile Justice he helped inspire me to apply. He facilitated our black Transwomen group Sheba for several years & I know Ronnie would be so proud. I’m currently a fellow in Yante’s Sun Seeker Crisis & Care intervention cohort, & to experience him in this way has brought me joy. My sister Sade’s Johnson I have loved from the first moment we met out late one night with the gworls lol, she is one of the sweetest most giving people I’ve ever met she is a survivor, & has been through things that would break anyone else, I see your dedication, Sade’s has been in the background of almost every event making sure that helping & healing hands were on deck , giving extra time showing up early & one of the last to leave for set ups & tear downs decorating & anything that was needed to make our events successful but here’s the thing. WITHOUT BEING ASKED. Families of the girls we have lost told me they appreciated the decorations & care we put into the our small budget less events where she spent her own funds to contribute where whole organizations have failed to step up. Brown Transwomen like us putting up funds to make something special. She is a professional decorator & event planner has years of experience w/ different organizations both being directly impacted & leading volunteering and canvassing efforts. She has put in the years learning and showing up and it is time for her to recieve everything a woman like her deserves. She has been a backbone for me often one of the only people I can trust to hold what I go through in the work. Painful to think that people would not be supportive of her getting an opportunity that can actually change her life. So let me in my most professional voice possible say f*** THEM and f*** THAT! For anyone to try to deminish her accomplishment in a moment when our whole community is still very much grieving my Father/mentor Ronnie Grace is dishonoring to his legacy. Ronnie stood w/ black Transwomen when the whole community turned its back on many of us and believed in empowering us for years before it was a popularized notion. Let me explain something to you, HE SAW SOMETHING IN EACH AND EVERYONE ONE OF US, you don’t decide who is worthy or who is valuable. God has the final say.