Canadian musicians and openly gay twins Tegan and Sara have just gotten even more awesome, if you can believe that’s possible.

You may recognize the names Tegan and Sara because of their music. If you don’t, I absolutely recommend to you that you go look it up on the inter-webs right away. Over the course of the last several years and their last several albums, Tegan and Sara have made a name for themselves as strong, independent, and badass queer women with some ridiculously cool music videos, especially "Stop Desire."

Now they’re pushing the boundaries of their careers and using their talents to benefit some of their fellow queer folk, specifically often underprivileged girls and women of the LGBTQ+ community.

Tegan and Sara have created The Tegan and Sara Foundation, their newest project. “We started the Foundation to dismantle the systems of inequity that prevent LGBTQ girls and women from reaching their full potential,” they write on teganandsarafoundation.org, “Together, we can make a difference.”

In a letter written by Tegan and Sara addressing further the intention and inspiration for their foundation, they discuss how their career has been affected by sexism and homophobia.

“Our LGBTQ fans have supported us in innumerable ways,” they write. They go on to say that their project was inspired by their fans’ “personal histories of injustice and discrimination at home, school, work, and church.”

Tegan and Sara’s mission statement reads: “Our mission is to fight for economic justice, health, and representation for LGBTQ girls and women.”

They go on to explain how, during their North American tour of their album ‘Love You to Death,” they “met with local fans, youth activists, researchers, legislators, and nonprofits working tirelessly to promote LGBTQ equality.”

In listening and learning from the incredible people that Tegan and Sara met, they discovered the needs of the queer community and issues such as “lack of federal funding for LGBTQ services, limited training for doctors about the needs of their LGBTQ patients, and severe workplace discrimination are disproportionately affecting women.”

“LGBTQ women and girls are feeling overwhelmingly rejected and left behind,” the twins write.

They also highlight how LGBTQ+ women face disproportionately high poverty, health issues, and inequality.

Queer women of color, especially transgender women of color, are even further affected by these issues, perpetuated by racism and transphobia.

Tegan and Sara close their letter by writing,

“Through the Tegan and Sara Foundation, we can be proactive with our support rather than wait to react to discrimination as it occurs. We will support the work of other organizations who have been fighting for LGBTQ and women's rights by raising funds and awareness for their initiatives. We will fight against the repressive legislation of the incoming Trump administration. We will fight against regressive homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic legislation. We will fight for economic, racial and gender justice.”

Especially since this year’s election, as Tegan and Sara emphasize, it’s so important to fight for rights of the Queer community. It’s incredible to me how much is at stake, but it’s also pretty amazing to see how many people are ready to show their support, by any means necessary. Tegan and Sara, in creating this foundation, have demonstrated how important it is to take a stand for issues, and for lives, that matter.

While it is unclear what course of action Tegan and Sara plan to start with, I am looking forward to seeing their project develop. I am so pleased to witness the initiation of this foundation; it’s truly inspiring to see how easy it can be to make a difference in the issues that permeate our society.

I can’t wait to watch as Tegan and Sara fight, with passion and determination, against the hate, discrimination, and inequality that warps freedom and quality of life for LGBTQ+ women all over the world.

It’s wonderful to see more and more powerful women step up to protect our rights to health, safety, opportunity, and love. After all, as we all know, love is love.