{"id":69027,"date":"2018-05-29T16:20:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T20:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/aria-said-kween-culture-initiative\/"},"modified":"2018-05-29T16:20:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T20:20:26","slug":"aria-said-kween-culture-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/aria-said-kween-culture-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Aria Said &#8211; Kween Culture Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Aria Said &#8211; Kween Culture Initiative<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/thepollinationproject\/\">ThePollinationProject<\/a> posted a photo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thepollinationproject\/42438256491\/\" title=\"Aria Said - Kween Culture Initiative\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/881\/42438256491_32d8c1f672_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"122\" alt=\"Aria Said - Kween Culture Initiative\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kween Culture Initiative is a Bay Area based non-profit project that produces cultural dialogue and social empowerment events and programming in San Francisco and Oakland, California that is exclusively led, facilitated and by\/for transgender <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> of color. 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