In that short sentence, we have already opened up a set of questions and unsteady terms that contain within them irreconcilable contradictions and centuries of historical and political nuance. Rather than attempt to cordon off some segment of the population as our political territory, this document is meant to put forward a set of unifying principles which are specific, actionable, and rooted in place, but which accommodate a necessarily fluid political landscape.

For example, one immediate question which our header provokes is, who or what is trans? For this collective, transness is an amalgamation of desires which add up to a demand for a different world, one where the necessities of everyday life are shared in their abundance. Transness is a window facing our political horizons, a novel perspective contingent to this time and place, and a condition which has brought this collective into existence as a staging ground to work towards this new world's liberation from our imaginations into reality.

Transness is also a political project with its own struggles and aims, such as the desire to live free of state harassment in public; the demand for sex workers to determine their conditions and live with dignity; the abolition of institutions of diagnosis, isolation, and punishment. We resist a static meaning of "trans", but we acknowledge that its specific history has created the conditions of possibility for this project.

Not every person who is a comrade to 1for1 will identify as transgender, but our hope is that the work which spills out from here will be charged by the struggle for total social transformation which has taken many names and worn many faces, transness and queerness being an important few.

But then, what is liberation? We refuse to treat it as either a single goalpost or an ambiguous feeling. Instead, we must be willing to tend to liberation like an altar, adjusting and renewing it with every flake of drywall we manage to free. We also must remain vigilant of claims that we have reached liberation here and now, while our friends remain behind bars or shut out of their homes.

Liberation is just as shaped by the historical moment as anything else, and with freedom more than anything, we advocate diligent attention to the realities of our time and place, lest it broaden out into a term only suitable for self-congratulatory plaques and liberal slogans. Place is especially important, both for our attachment to complete indigenous sovereignty from Ohlone land to Palestine, and for our specific struggle to liberate the site of the Compton's Cafeteria riot from GEO Group. Here, as with all struggles over land, liberation is measured not in placards, flags, or self-proclaimed victories, but in inches, feet, blocks, and acres. And every material gain and loss will change the meaning of trans liberation -- we will make new enemies, new friends, see things we had missed before.

We accept liberation as a shifting practice extending far beyond this project, but trust that we'll know it when we see it.

So what is "1for1"? Is it a riff on the enlightenment era bourgeois universalist slogan, "one for all and all for one," which took the emancipation of the European male landowner as an emancipation of the whole world?

Is it a threat along the lines of "an eye for an eye," which promises vengeance for the injuries done to our martyrs?

Is it a nod to mutual aid? An invocation of non-hierarchical horizontalism? A promise of the substitution of an old world for a new one?

1for1's ambiguity is its real meaning, and we hope it will activate the political imaginations of those who walk through our doors, and foster between us a revolutionary spirit that refuses a singular definition.

Most importantly, 141 Taylor Street is our cosmic address. It is a physical place, with a history and future that are both in contention. As with "transness" and "liberation", our task is not to find a single, static meaning, but to humbly, and through daily practice, attend to the concrete conditions of its perpetual transformation.