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Jun 13, 2020

Black Trans-led and Black Trans-serving organizations and initiatives

With the convergence of Pride Month and widespread protests against white supremacy and police brutality, it’s important to elevate, donate, and support Black transgender leaders at this time. So often these frontline freedom fighters and liberation seekers aren’t given their just due. Let’s change that. This is an evolving, community-sourced…

LGBTQ

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Black Trans-led organizations and initiatives
Black Trans-led organizations and initiatives
LGBTQ

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ZORA

·Apr 29, 2020

Trans Communities Are Demonstrating Incredible Resilience

Through grassroots efforts, we’ve found abundance among ourselves — In late February, New Orleans hosted its annual Mardi Gras celebrations. As usual, there were vivid floats, crowds galore, and attendees adorned in green, purple, and yellow decorative beads. …

Coronavirus

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Trans Communities Are Demonstrating Incredible Resilience
Trans Communities Are Demonstrating Incredible Resilience
Coronavirus

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Mar 11, 2017

A Trans Woman’s Response to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie being asked about trans women is like Lena Dunham being asked about Black women. It doesn’t work. We can speak for ourselves. She needs to take a lesson from herself on the danger of a single story because cisgender hegemony is dangerous. We know what you…

Transgender

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A Trans Woman’s Response to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Trans Woman’s Response to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Transgender

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Gender 2.0

·Jun 19, 2015

Trans Womanhood and The Power of Self-Determination

Do all women define themselves in the same way? Do we all share the same experiences and relationships to our bodies? Do we all have the same goals or methods for achieving gender equality? No. And Elinor Burkett’s blather of a piece criticizing Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair cover in The…

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Trans Womanhood and The Power of Self-Determination
Trans Womanhood and The Power of Self-Determination

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May 4, 2015

Ciara: A (Not-So-Brief) Herstory

Thoughts on music’s underrated champion — “My goodies, my goodies, my goodies… not my goodies.” I can’t remember that pivotal first moment I heard Ciara’s voice, but when I reflect on her first single coming out I see images of 14-year-old me singing along on the bus after school with swaths of other teens or dancing…

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Ciara: A (Not-So-Brief) Herstory
Ciara: A (Not-So-Brief) Herstory

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Cuepoint

·Apr 14, 2015

To Pimp the Black Woman: On Kendrick Lamar’s Limited Black Liberation

If music is the product of its original environment, Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar has become the quintessential arbiter of this notion. …

Music

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To Pimp The Black Woman: On Kendrick Lamar’s Limited Black Liberation
To Pimp The Black Woman: On Kendrick Lamar’s Limited Black Liberation
Music

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Aug 19, 2014

The Limit of Respectability Politics: #IfTheyGunnedMeDown would YOU care?

“In the opinion of the court, the legislation and histories of the times, and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show, that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves, nor their descendants … had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”…

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The Limit of Respectability Politics: #IfTheyGunnedMeDown would YOU care?
The Limit of Respectability Politics: #IfTheyGunnedMeDown would YOU care?

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Raquel Willis

Raquel Willis

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Future Author. Activist. Strategist. A lover of storytelling. A proponent of all things equality.

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