Support La Reina Taína:Empowering a Black Trans Femme Artist

Joy Rising

(Words by La Reina Taína)

La Reina Taína is a Black and Indigenous transfemme artist standing at a powerful, tender crossroads. After years of serving at an anti-sexual-violence organization, she made the courageous decision to step away from her full-time role to prioritize her healing, mental health, and creative calling. The emotional toll of that work led to two extended medical leaves, making it clear that continuing without rest or support was no longer sustainable. Now, she is choosing herself.

Her immediate needs include:

- Rent from June through August ($1k/mo = $3k/summer)

- Estrogen and mental-health medication

- Basic living expenses during this period of transition and recovery

Bills/Expenses:

$72/mo = T-Mobile phone bill

$200/mo = subscriptions

$400/mo = groceries

$1,000/mo = rent

$1,000 = moving out/flight expenses (to DR for school in fall)

$44,000 = Film school

But let’s be honest: living as a Black trans woman—especially one who shows up unapologetically through her art—brings relentless challenges. Reina faces daily discrimination and threats to her safety, even within her own home. The systems designed to protect her often fail. That’s why community care must step in.

Cashapp: $camoisnotdead 

Venmo: larealreinataina

Paypal: ReinaTaina14

This isn’t a pause—it’s a pivot. Reina is pouring her passions into a range of creative and professional offerings:

Trans Conscious Leadership workshops & trainings—inviting organizations and communities into deeper, transformative dialogue.

Entertainment & performance—most notably her solo theatre piece The Autopsy of Joice Heth, in which she channels the spirit of Joice Heth, a Black enslaved woman caged and chained for colonial spectacle and ultimately dissected before a white audience, drawing a powerful parallel to today’s ongoing struggle for collective liberation.

Merchandise—available at https://www.lareinataina.com/store, each piece a statement of resilience and identity.

Music—released on Bandcamp (www.lareinataina.bandcamp.com), including her most recent single “LUIGI,” now streaming on all major platforms.

Podcast—VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS (www.lareinataina.com/vhi-podcast), with Episode 8 just published; listeners are invited to download their favorite episodes and share them across their communities.

She is also raising funds to complete her film degree ($44,000)—a vital step toward long-term sustainability, broader networks, and greater access to spaces where her vision can thrive. This isn’t charity; it’s an invitation to join her community, to invest in her healing, her art, and her future—and to uplift a voice that refuses to be erased.

Explore more of her work and connect here:

https://linktr.ee/camoisnotdead

Support Reina now—not later, when it might be too late to celebrate her name in joy, gratitude, and solidarity. Let’s rise together.

Thank you for showing up for her.