This panel highlights the work of Jacksonville-based queer, trans, Black, and Brown activists. One of our featured speakers is transdisciplinary artist, DJ, and producer GeeXella (Graciela Cain), who founded Duval Folx—a queer, accessible dance space in Jacksonville. Reflecting on their years of experience creating and organizing queer musical spaces, GeeXella will facilitate a workshop titled “Creating Spaces that Connect Community.” We are currently in conversation with other organizations that GeeXella and Duval Folx have recently partnered with about joining us for an extended conversation about organizing in Jacksonville. In collaboration with our guest speakers, our goal is to center local life-affirming practices that resist Florida's state-level violence against trans and queer folks, and how these practices relate to national and global struggles towards liberation.