Gender-Affirming Support Groups

Gender-affirming support groups can be healing spaces for our community members to grieve, empathize, and gather together as a collective. Below are a variety of virtual, free, and gender-affirming support groups to bookmark for you and anyone else you know could benefit from these spaces.

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Last Updated: October 28, 2025

Originally published: January 19, 2024

The Parking Lot | Cooperate CT

CooperateCT is hosting the Parking Lot, a virtual peer learning and support space for members of co-ops, democratic workplaces, and grassroots collectives and coalitions working towards the solidarity economy and our supporters who live and/or work in Connecticut.

Upcoming meeting: October 28 / November 25, 2025 at 6:00PM - 7:30PM EST

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Virtual Networking Mixer for Trans Community Workers | TransCanWork

TransCanWork​ (TCW) is hosting a virtual networking mixer for trans community workers.

Upcoming meeting: October 30, 2025 at​ 3PM PST / 12PM EST 

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Queer, Trans, & Disability Support Group

TransPonder hosts Queer, Trans, & Disability Support Group every Thursday at 7pm for people who are LGBTQIA2S, trans, nonbinary, or gender-diverse and are disabled. This is a space where queer and trans people with disabilities can chat about their experiences, discuss chosen topics, and share resources and validation. Folks do not need to talk or use video to participate.

Upcoming meeting: October 30, 2025 at 7PM PST on Google Meet

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Focus Group Fridays | Notedd

Notedd is hosting virtual focus groups for folks to share their insights, needs, and experiences around building community as an entrepreneur. These conversations will help shape new offerings and resources that truly serve entrepreneurs - whether you're growing your visibility, exploring new platforms, or craving more engagement. These sessions are casual, collaborative, and capped at one hour. Participants will choose their preferred time slot—if others select the same, there will be a group session. If not, you’ll connect 1:1 with Notedd’s founder.

Upcoming meetings: October 31, 2025 with time options ranging from 11:30am - 2:30pm ET

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Community Support Calls | Rooted Respite

Rooted Respite hosts a monthly community support call, a loosely structured space for folks to build community with other social changemakers and get peer support.

Upcoming meeting: October 31, 2025 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST

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The Future of Archiving | Black Lesbian Archives

Black Lesbian Archives is hosting The Future of Archiving as a part of their 3-part workshop series exploring how we’ve kept memory across time from oral traditions to digital archives, and the revival of analog. In the Printing Press to Journalism session, participants will discuss digital sovereignty, censorship, and the rise of analog returning.

Upcoming meeting: November 2, 2025 at 11AM EST

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BIPOC Get Together | Juneteenth Downeast

Juneteenth Downeast hosts a BIPOC Get Together for the BIPOC community of Maine on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month at 2pm on Zoom.

Upcoming meeting: November 2, 2025 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST on Zoom

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Monthly Recovery Circle | RooT Recovery Circle

RooT Recovery Circle will be holding drop-in spaces every first Monday for Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color who are getting curious about and staying committed to working through coping patterns that might not be meeting our needs for connection to self and others. This is a connection and participant centered space that invites collective and embodied wisdom instead of shame and guilt to address some of our challenges with habits and substance use.

Upcoming meeting: November 3, 2025 at 7PM - 9PM PST / 10PM -12AM EST

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Healing and Making Circle | Emerging Arts Professionals

Emerging Arts Professionals holds Healing & Marking Circle, a virtual space for arts and culture workers to deepen their personal arts practice once per month. This virtual space is intended to inspire attendees to regularly create, even if just for a lunch hour.

Upcoming meeting: November 5, 2025 at 12:30PM PST / 3:30pm EST

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Archiving as Resistance: Documenting QTBIPOC Life | Scissors PHL

Scissors PHL is hosting a free, community-centered workshop designed to help BIPOC dykes map their archiving toolbox. Participants will discuss, journal, and brainstorm the starting points and next steps for creating a personal archive.

Upcoming meeting: November 9, 2025 at 3-5PM EST

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FreeCare: Peer Support | CT Grapevine

FreeCare is a peer support group space for folks to seek collective care and talk about anything from the harms of capitalism to workplace/organizing issues, incarceration/ abolition, and more. These support groups are held every second Tuesday of each month.

Upcoming meeting: November 11, 2025 at 6pm - 7pm EST

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The Lupine Collaborative Virtual Writing Group

The Lupine Collaborative is hosting a monthly virtual writing space for Black women, transgender, and non-binary nature, climate & environmental writers. This is a lightly facilitated space to work on your projects, free write, and build community with other writers. Participants are welcomed to attend for the full session or drop-in as their availability allows.

Upcoming meeting: November 13 / December 11, 2025 at 12PM - 2PM PST / 3PM - 5PM EST

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Visionary Sundays with the Gather & Goal Collective | Kindred Bookshop

Kindred Bookshop is hosting Visionary Sundays with the Gather & Goal Collective, where every third Sunday of the month, folks are invited to join them at The (virtual) Planning Table, a welcoming space to reflect, reset, and reconnect with your aspirations. Whether you're mapping out your next big idea, organizing your week, or simply seeking inspiration, this is your time to dream and do in the company of a supportive community.

Upcoming meeting: November 16, 2025 at 7pm - 8pm EST

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FreeCare Palestine | CT Grapevine

FreeCare Palestine is a virtual, monthly peer support group that meets every 3rd Sunday of the month. This FREE meeting is for anyone who wants to talk about global genocide.

Upcoming meeting: November 16, 2025 at 7pm - 8pm EST

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Decolonizing Writing Workshop | Mo Viviane

Mo Viviane is hosting a Decolonizing Writing Workshop that focuses on de-centering perfectionism and carceral structures that bar creativity. Participants will explore writing methods that make freedom, through narratives that are rooted in our lived experiences, in our dream sequences.

Upcoming meeting: November 19, 2025 at 6:30PM - 8PM EST

Price: $24.64 (with limited pay-what-you-can slots)

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Black LGBTQ+ Space | Peer Support Space

Black LGBTQ+ Space is a peer-led space for Black LGBTQ+ community. This group holds space for ALL Black LGBTQ+ community, if you live at the intersection of being Black and LGBTQ+ you are welcome in this space. If you have any questions or accessibility needs please email blacklgbtqspace@gmail.com.

Upcoming meeting: Monthly on the 2nd and 4th Saturday at 12PM EST

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Trans Talk: A Trans Masc Support Group | Los Angeles Spoonie Collective Support Groups

Los Angeles Spoonie Collective Support Groups are unstructured spaces where folks can connect to, and offer mutual aid with others who share similar life experiences and struggles. All support groups are facilitated by members of LASC. This support group happens every other month.

Upcoming meeting: Bi-monthly meetings

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Healing & Wellness Grad Group for Transgender, Nonbinary, Gender Diverse Black, Indigenous, Students of Color | Gabe Lockett, Marquel Norton

This group intends to provide transgender, nonbinary, and gender diverse graduate students who identify as BIPOC a space to heal, process, engage in peer mentorship, and community care, as we strive for collective wellness. Utilizing a Black femme praxis, this group hopes to engage in self love, self awareness, and collective liberation.

Upcoming meeting: Sign up to learn about their upcoming meetings

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Complex Trauma Support Group | Trans Advocacy & Care Team

Trans Advocacy & Care Team hosts Complex Trauma Support Group, a peer support space for anyone looking for community with others who are in the process of working through multiple traumas over their lifetime.

Upcoming meeting: Every 1st and 3rd Saturdays at 10:00am - 11:30 am PST / 1:00pm - 2:30pm EST

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Still Coviding Weekly Hangout | @covidisnotover

The Still Coviding Weekly Hangout, facilitated by @covidisntover, is curated for folks still coviding and includes 20+ breakout rooms with racial affinity group spaces and different themes/topics - covid related and not. View their full community calendar here.

Upcoming meeting: Every Saturday night 8-11 PM EST

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Dreams & Schemes | Colored Girls Liberation Lab

Colored Girls Liberation Lab holds Sunday Sanctuary, a monthly gathering for community, connection and spiritual contemplation. You only need to register once and you'll receive the Zoom link each week/month.

Upcoming meeting: 1st Sundays at 11:30 am ET

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Grief and Loss Support Group | The LOFT

The LOFT hosts a discussion/support group on grief and loss for members of the LGBTQ+ community to have a safe space to grieve and discuss the feelings of loss they are experiencing. The group meets on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Sundays of every month from 1:00pm-2:30pm. View their full calendar of events here.

Upcoming meeting: The 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays of the month from 1:00PM - 2:30PM EST

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Trans & Gestating Support Group | Moss the Doula

Moss the Doula hosts a monthly Trans & Gestating Support Group for trans birthing people.

Upcoming meeting: Every Sunday at 3pm EDT on Zoom

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FreeCare for Palestine Support Group | CT Grapevine

FreeCare for Palestine is a virtual, monthly peer support group for anyone who wants to talk about the ongoing genocide in Palestine, especially for those organizing around this issue.

Upcoming meeting: 3rd Sunday of every month at 7pm-8pm EST

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Monday Meditation Space for Black Trans Men & Trans Mascs folks | Black Trans Media

Black Trans Media holds a virtual meditation space every Monday at noon EST led by and for Black Trans Men and Trans Masc folks. Join this space for 30 minutes of individual and collective peace and practice. RSVP at Blacktransmedia@gmail.com

Upcoming meeting: Every Monday at 12PM - 12:30PM EST on Zoom

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Dreams & Schemes | Colored Girls Liberation Lab

Colored Girls Liberation Lab holds Dreams & Schemes, a weekly meetup where Black women live on each other and nurture their most audacious dreams. It’s a loving accountability for your liberation journey.

Upcoming meeting: (almost) every Monday at 12 pm ET

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LGBTQ+ People of Color Peer Support Group | The LOFT

The LOFT's LGBTQ+ People of Color Peer Support Group is an open discussion group for LGBTQ+ People of Color including any/all peoples of African, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, Asian, or Pacific Island descent. The group meets on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month from 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM. View their full calendar of events here.

Upcoming meeting: The 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month from 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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Rainbow Elders & Friends Support and Social Group | New Haven Pride Center

New Haven Pride Center’s Rainbow Elders is a support and social space for LGBTQ+ elders who are 50+. View their full list of affinity spaces here.

Upcoming meeting: The last Monday of every month at 6pm EST

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Care + Courage + Community | Brown Boi Project

Brown Boi Project is hosting Care + Courage + Community, a drop-in support space for transgender & gender expansive people of color navigating the current state of affairs. These meetings will not be recorded and participants are not permitted to take photos or record any part of the session to support the safety of the group. 

Upcoming meeting: Every first Monday of the month at 7pm EST (4pm PST, 5pm MT, 6pm CT) from March until May 2025

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QTBIPOC Support Space | Fireweed Collective

Fireweed Collective facilitates a QTBIPOC support space on Mondays at 5 PM PST / 8 PM EST. Their support groups are virtual spaces where folks can connect and offer mutual aid with others who share similar life experiences and struggles.

Upcoming meetings: Mondays at 5PM PST / 8PM EST

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Black TransATLiens | ATL Trans Guide

Black Trans ATLiens is a collective a (mostly) Atlanta-based Black trans folks ages 18+ engaged in community through a virtual peer support space, study group, and WhatsApp chat.

Upcoming meeting: Every 1st Tuesday of the month at 7PM EST

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Spectrum Group | Affinity Community Services

Affinity Community Services hosts a Spectrum Group, a hybrid program building community amongst masculine of center folks within the Black LGBTQ+ community. Please note: To provide authentic safe space, this group is ONLY for people who identify their gender as Masculine of center. 

Upcoming meeting: 2nd Tuesday of month at 6:30 - 8:30 pm CST

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FreeCare Peer Support | CT Grapevine

FreeCare is a free, peer support group for workers, organizers, and artists to discuss harms of capitalism to workplace/organizing issues, incarceration/ abolition, and more.

Upcoming meeting: Every second Tuesday of every month at 6:00pm - 7:00pm EST

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QTBIPOC Space | Institute for Human Identity

The QTBIPOC Space is a therapeutic, online space for queer and transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC) to process their experiences. This space provides support, shares coping skills, builds safe and affirming community, and fosters individual and collective strength and resiliency.

Upcoming meeting: Tuesdays from 6:00pm-7:00pm EST. Submit an intake form below to book an appointment.

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MASC Support Group | Destination Tomorrow

Destination Tomorrow hosts MASC is a monthly virtual support group for trans masculine individuals.

Upcoming meeting: Every 2nd & 4th Tuesday of the month 7pm EST

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Crafting Abolition | Let’s Get Free

Crafting Abolition, hosted by Let’s Get Free and Black Unicorn Library, is a virtual drop-in space to create, craft, imagine, and relate.

Upcoming meeting: Tuesdays 7-9PM EST on Zoom

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CripCreate | In collaboration with Calling Up Justice

CripCreate, hosted in collaboration with Calling Up Justice, is a weekly online co-working and socializing space by and for all Disabled (sick, Disabled, Deaf, Hard of Hearing, low vision/blind, neurodiverse, or otherwise chronically ill) people.

Upcoming meeting: Weekly on Wednesdays 1:00-3:00pm PDT (GMT-7) and Saturdays, 4-6 p.m. PDT (GMT-7). 

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Parent Support Group | SWOP LA

Sex Workers Outreach Project - Los Angeles (SWOP LA) hosts a Parent Support Group, a communal space for current and former sex working parents to connect, share, and uplift one another through the unique challenges of parenting. For more information or if you’re interested in participating, please email SWOP LA at: swopla.services@proton.me

Upcoming meeting: Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday from 10AM to 11:30AM PST

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Transmasculine Support Group | Trans Advocacy & Care Team

Trans Advocacy & Care Team hosts a Transmasculine Support Group, a peer support space for folks who identify as transmasc or resonate with the transmasc experience.

Upcoming meeting: Every 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 4:00pm -5:30pm PST / 7:00pm - 8:30 pm EST

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Monthly Meeting | Transform Gender Collective

Transform Gender Collective (TGC) is a support and discussion group for transmasculine and masculine-of-center Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) to learn about transformative justice, unlearn toxic gendered behaviors, and imagine what masculinity could look like outside of the gender binary. This month’s meeting is focused on spirituality and transformative justice.

Upcoming meeting: Last Wednesday of each month at 6:30PM - 8:30PM EST

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Burnt Out Activist Club & QTPoC Mediation | Rest for Resistance

Rest for Resistance’s Burnt Out Activist Club is an online support group for QTIBIPOC activists. Their team also holds a QTPoC Meditation for queer and trans people of color, which hosts three online events every month: stillness practice, movement practice, and restful yoga.

Upcoming meeting: Burnt Out Activist - Every Wednesday on Zoom & QTPoC Meditation - Every second Sunday

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Breath Circle for Collective Capacity | Healing Justice London

Breath Circle for Collective Capacity is a gathering space for grounding with Healing Justice Ldn. This regular space is held for light stretching, breathing and meditative practice. It’s a space that scaffolds and staggers levels of participation, so that you can opt in to what supports you and your body to feel safer. If you require additional access measures to enable your participation please email info@healingjusticeldn.org.

Upcoming meeting: Wednesdays at 9:30-10PM BST

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Grief & Care Under Capitalism | A Sacred Passing & Leillani Mexera

Grief & Care Under Capitalism is a monthly grieving space and participatory support group for anyone feeling exploited and exhausted by capitalism. This is a facilitated drop-in group space with conversation directed by participants, so you can join once or several times, with no need to commit to multiple sessions. The group is free, though donations to A Sacred Passing and Leilani Maxera are always welcomed.

Upcoming meeting: 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 7pm - 9pm PT

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Black Trans Creatives | Black Trans Media

Join Black Trans Media for Black Trans Creatives, a space that allows you to work on your creative projects in a generative environment that encourages networking and community building especially in the arts. RSVP at blacktransmedia@gmail.com to join.

Upcoming meeting: Every Wednesdays at at 5pm EST

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Black TransATLiens | ATL Trans Guide

Black Trans ATLiens is a collective a (mostly) Atlanta-based Black trans folks ages 18+ engaged in community through a virtual peer support space, study group, and WhatsApp chat.

Upcoming meeting: Every 3rd Thursday of the month at 7PM EST

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Tea 4 T | ProjectQ Community Center

ProjectQ will be hosting Tea 4 T, a free biweekly peer support group for POC transmasculine youth ages 17 to 27 to talk about their experiences, build community, and learn valuable skills. Maximum attendance of our support group is 15 participants to make sure everyone has a chance to speak and to be heard without being rushed. This session will be held on Zoom on the 2nd & 4th Thursdays of every month at 6 pm-7:30 pm PST.

Upcoming meeting: Every 2nd & 4th Thursdays of every month at 6 pm-7:30 pm PST

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Regional Meetups across the Globe | Team CommUNITY

Team CommUNITY hosts various global meetups, including Africa, LATAM, Asia, and MENA Regional Meetups bimonthly video calling gatherings that bring together folks from the African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Asian regions to share, connect, seek help, and release stress by celebrating each other.

Upcoming meeting: Held bi-monthly

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Covid Cautious Action for Palestine | Centering Palestine

Covid Cautious Action for Palestine is a weekly COVID-cautious event. Hosted by Centering Palestine, these events are organized by community members including Palestinian, Jewish, and ally contributors. View a full list of healing-centered resources and virtual events for those impacted by violence in Palestine/Israel here.

Upcoming meeting: Sign up below to learn about their next weekly call.

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Justice Producer’s Collaborative | Calling Up Justice

The Justice Producer’s Collaborative, holds synchronous (cultivation calls and organizing calls) and asynchronous connective space (Discord server) so Justice producers can tend to their virtual community garden in a way that reflects shared power and decision-making. Cultivation calls are 90 minutes of relationship building, signal boosting, peer support, and meaning making. They occur in an auto-captioned Zoom meeting space.

Upcoming meeting: Sign up below to learn about their upcoming calls (typically hosted every Saturday)

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Peer Support Spaces | Black Emotional and Mental Health (BEAM)

BEAM’s Peer Support Spaces is a monthly, online support group and emotional skills building space for Black folks looking to learn, support, and grow in their own healing.

Upcoming meeting: Sign up below to learn about their upcoming peer support spaces

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Peer to Peer Support Groups | Black Trans Alliance

Black Trans Alliance hosts monthly peer to peer support groups, offers one and one or group sessions to anyone identifying as trans, non-binary, or questioning.

Upcoming meeting: Sign up below to learn about their upcoming peer to peer support groups.

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24/7 Hotline | The Network/La Red

The Network/La Red has a 24/7 hotline with free and confidential phone based support groups for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC survivors of partner abuse. Call their hotline at 800-832-1901 for more information.

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Test Crisis Line | THRIVE Lifeline

THRIVE Lifeline has a 24/7, non-carceral text-based identity and mental health crisis line run by and for marginalized individuals.

To receive support: Text “THRIVE” to 1.313.662.8209 for support anytime and anywhere.

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Crisis Call Line | BlackLine

Call BlackLine® provides a space for peer support, counseling, reporting of mistreatment, witnessing and affirming the lived experiences for folxs who are most impacted by systematic oppression with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens. BlackLine is non-judgmental, affirming and supportive, listener-witnessing and information gathering about your experience.

To receive support: Call 1 (800) 604-5841 or download their app below

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Africa Regional Meetup | Team CommUNITY

Team CommUNITY hosts various global meetups, including Africa, LATAM, Asia, and MENA Regional Meetups bimonthly video calling gatherings that bring together folks from the African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Asian regions to share, connect, seek help, and release stress by celebrating each other.

Upcoming meeting: Bi-monthly meetings

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