privileged-person: [Shaadi @tgirlinterruptd tweets: The thing about street harassment for a Black t

privileged-person:

[Shaadi @tgirlinterruptd tweets:

• The thing about street harassment for a Black trans woman though?There is added danger of transmisogyny/phobia. Initially or after discovery
• There is literally no win for us as trans women. We ignore? Violence. We entertain nicely& they discover? Violence. ‘We were tricking them!’
• And My experience is a little different than some1 not passing as Cis while in public space. For others street harassment is even scarier
• Because for black women being read as trans the interaction begins&ends w/overt violence thats seen as ‘Deserved.’ Other women support it…
• &Yes its street harassment because its a gendered violence that is shaped by dialogues of misogyny & policing of womens body in public space
• When street harassment is compounded by transmisogyny we have harassment by men who think our bodies exist to trick them into pleasure
• Or you have men who feel entitled to our bodies as objects of fetish to which they are entitled. Add antiblk misogyny & how dare we decline
• There’s added danger in a blk trans woman turning down advances via street harassment bcause ‘how dare we?’ That agency damages male ego
• For Black trans women street harassment is yet another form of gender violence added to the daily street assault of being visibly trans…
• When men’s eyes collectively turn on me as a Blk Trans Woman Im terrified. There’s no justice for what will occur in that space of male gaze
• Women’s bodies are always seen as existing for male enticement.I bcome a special kind of criminal.Enticing men for corruption of masculinity]

transwomanism:

Black Trans Women & Street Harassment:

Conversations on Street Harassment often exclude Black Trans Women because we don’t view them as women& we see their bodies as inherently deserving of violence. We tend to see street harassment of trans women, not as gender based systematic violence, but as non-existent or inexplainable & unavoidable tragedy.

https://storify.com/TGirlInterruptd/black-trans-women-and-street-harassment