Chosen Kin Collective
Radical Kinship.
Collective Care.
Collective Care
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Street Solidarity
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Collective Care • Street Solidarity •
Chosen Kin Collective is a mutual aid organization rooted in radical care and community solidarity. We provide safety, resources, and essential supplies to houseless youth in Portland, Oregon—centering trans, queer, and BIPOC young people who have been abandoned by systemic institutions. We believe in building chosen family networks that honor autonomy, affirm identity, and resist displacement through direct action, mutual support, and collective healing. Our mission is survival. Our vision is liberation.
Kinship over
broken systems.
How to help.
ABOUT
US.
Chosen Kin Collective was founded by Makwa, a trans, two-spirit Anishinaabe artist and activist from the Bad River and Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe Nations. Born of survival, grief, and deep love for his community, Makwa created this collective to support the youth too often left behind—those navigating houselessness, state violence, and systemic neglect, especially trans and queer youth of color in Portland, Oregon.
As someone who has lived through the fractures of displacement and found power in chosen family, Makwa believes that survival is not a solitary act—it’s a collective one. Chosen Kin Collective exists to provide safety, supplies, and unwavering support to houseless youth through mutual aid, community care, and radical kinship.
We are not a charity. We are a lifeline.
We are not waiting for systems to save us. We are saving each other.
