Dear First name / friend, IN•TACT (Intersex, Nonbinary, Trans Advocate Collective Triangle) began when a few individuals from the Intersex, Nonbinary, and Trans community in Columbia, MO decided to come together to hold a candlelight vigil for Trans Day of Remembrance in November of 2025. What was forged from everyone’s collective grief was a group of advocates determined to make the lives of MOGAI (Marginalized Orientations, Gender Alignments, and Intersex) peoples safer in the state of Missouri through continued structural legislative change, representation during the legislative process, and persistent advocacy for the equitable treatment of all gender diverse peoples. 

 

After assembling our team, and while legislative season was in full swing, we became an official 501c4 on January 21st, 2026. Since then, IN•TACT advocates have worked to bring the voices of our community before legislators to defend our basic human rights. We discovered early in the process that as advocates we could move more laterally than lobbyists, interacting directly with community members and representatives to spread the word on issues that will impact our lives. All of this was done for one reason alone: To make a safer place to be ourselves by stirring an effective response to the painful events impacting our community. We work to settle troubled waters and rebuild the spaces that have historically made no effort to include us within their design, and keep those that were built by us intact.

Being in community means bringing people from all walks of life to the table to talk, listen, and learn. The roots of IN•TACT got established through the advocacy work of no single individual, but a group of concerned Queer citizens with a goal to protect their rights. During that time, it was decided that IN•TACT would host tea parties for fellow organizers, not always people from the MOGAI community but all that showed through their own collective efforts that they cared about the issues affecting Trans, Nonbinary, and Intersex lives.

 

In the past, suffragists invited other like-minded women to tea as a way of participating in the Suffrage movement. Tea parties cleverly disguised the organizational efforts of suffragists allowing them the space needed to strategize effective ways to secure the right for women to vote. IN•TACT pays homage to these women by hosting a high tea, known as Solidari-Tea. During this event advocates, politicians, organizers, union members, social welfare coordinators, concerned citizens, and more sit together over tea to hold conversations about increasing protections for our community.  

 

Every tea party hosted brings the community closer to our advocates yielding insights on what community members should do next, providing clarity on how to align with our organization and theirs, and building safe havens for those creating a world which protects Trans, Nonbinary, and Intersex lives.

 

We thank everyone for your support and care and look forward to your attendance at our future events. 

 

In Solidarity,

If you want to participate in this work we invite you to volunteer with us! IN•TACT works because we work together to strengthen each other to improve our lives, our communities, and make our voices heard.

IN•TACT is a 501c4 non-profit organization and all of our funding is from our own pockets or through the generosity of our community. These donations ensure that we can continue our work and programs such as the SolidariTEAs.