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~ My delicious Supergirl.❤ I love making the older villains take advantage of the younger ones! :D That sense of helplessness adds such a rich flavour to the physical abuse! >:D (and I guess the Reverse Flash ‘zoomed’ in this one hard :D Amirite guys? :D Amirite? :D Guys? Hello–)
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~ My delicious Supergirl.❤ I love making the older villains take advantage of the younger ones! :D That sense of helplessness adds such a rich flavour to the physical abuse! >:D (and I guess the Reverse Flash ‘zoomed’ in this one hard :D Amirite guys? :D Amirite? :D Guys? Hello–)
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~ My delicious Supergirl.❤ I love making the older villains take advantage of the younger ones! :D That sense of helplessness adds such a rich flavour to the physical abuse! >:D (and I guess the Reverse Flash ‘zoomed’ in this one hard :D Amirite guys? :D Amirite? :D Guys? Hello–)
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#FASCISTBOOK: It is not hate speech to say that racist white cops who murder innocent black people are PIGS. SUCKERBERG: Chow down on my nasty, fat, brown cock. Up your ass bitch.
Since February I’ve been working with a team of social workers, faith communities, and child care professionals to create an organization called Skookum Kids that would care for children in their first 72 hours of foster care.
There’s a huge need for this nationwide, but here in my home of Bellingham Washington it’s particularly acute.
When children enter the foster care system, social workers often struggle to find a place for children to stay. A sustainable solution to this problem has already been created in next-door Everett, Washington. A facility called Safe Place receives children as they enter foster care, taking pressure off social workers and giving the children entering foster care a much softer landing. Through divine appointment I met the director of Safe Place in Everett. And when I expressed interest in building an extension in Bellingham, he was incredibly supportive and encouraging. He shared both his business plan and a huge amount of hard-earned wisdom. We are starting now with the benefit of his experience and his full support.
I am optimistic that we could be caring for children as early as the first quarter of 2015, and I’d love to have your support. Our biggest needs right now are visibility and donations.
You can give through our crowdfunding campaign, and choose from a variety of perks only available to our startup supporters.
And I’d love your help spreading the word through email, facebook, twitter, smoke signal, carrier pidgeon—any means necessary. We need your help!
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Janet Mock: The deaths of 6 trans women in the U.S. in 2015 February 17, 2015
This morning I read about the murder of Bri Golec in Ohio. She was stabbed to death by her father. She was only 22 years old. Her death marks the sixth trans woman to be reported murdered in the U.S. in 2015. It’s not even March.
As the New York City Anti-Violence Project noted in their tweet about Golec’s murder, “This time in 2014 we knew of no homicides of Trans women in the US. As of now there are AT LEAST SIX.”
This time in 2014, just a year ago, Laverne Cox and Carmen Carrera had publicly challenged Katie Couric; I sparred about language and identity on CNN; Cox’s Netflix series Orange Is the New Blackwas preparing for its second season; and my memoir had landed on the New York Times bestsellers list. This was the highest media saturation for trans women of color in U.S. history. As a writer and journalist, I had been forecasting the game-changing moment that was soon to come in May: Cox, a black trans woman from Mobile, Alabama, appearing on the cover of Time magazine.
After decades of erasure, trans women of color were finally garnering mainstream attention. Cox used her time in the pop cultural spotlight to not only advance her acting career, but to tell the stories of women like CeCe McDonald. We both stood behind Monica Jones as she resisted police profiling in Phoenix, Arizona, and trans Latina teen Jane Doe as she was unlawfully held in an adult prison.
Personally, I know that my visibility has to be more than just about my own pursuits. When I walk into a space, I am cognizant of the fact that I am bringing communities of people with me, communities that have historically been exiled and silenced. The weight of that responsibility never lightens, even as Inavigate uncharted terrain as a TV host. My show So POPular! explores the intersection of popular culture, representation, politics, identity and community. Though it doesn’t explicitly cover trans issues, it’s a space created and fronted by a trans woman of color, so the lens to which I explore topics on my show is that of a trans person, a black person, a woman of color. My goal is to take the focus away from myself as a subject, and instead be the person asking the questions, shaping the conversation.
I’ve seen folks juxtapose the recent media visibility of trans women of color and these recent murders. I’ve read sentences to the effect of: “At a time when trans women of color have visibility, we still see trans women murdered.” I find this logic to be quite basic.
Yes, trans women are being murdered. Yes, trans women of color have gained mainstream visibility. But trans women, particularly those of color, have always been targeted with violence. The differences now? There are some systems in place that better report violence and there is finally visibility of a select few that helps challenge the media’s framing of these women’s lives.
But cultural representation is just one piece of the social justice pie, and we must be clear about one thing: Trans women of color have had one year of visibility in the media, after decades of erasure (think about how many times historians, archivists, filmmakers or books mention the revolutionary work ofSylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson or Miss Major Griffin-Gracy). It’ll take more than a year of a few trans women in media to transform decades of structural oppression and violence, decades of misinformation, decades of exiling.
We are not existing in a fairytale where the very recent successes of a few individuals — whether that’s Laverne or Carmen or me — could quickly and radically transform the lives of our sisters who are resisting in already struggling communities, who are navigating poverty, homelessness, and joblessness while also facing high medical and educational costs, police profiling and incarceration as well as HIV/AIDS, the risks of underground economies as well as the looming threat and reminders of violence.
I nodded and responded: “So much of it is linked to the idea that women are not valued, people of color are not valued and trans people are often invalidated in our society. So when you throw that all into one person’s body, there’s a lot of targeting that comes into that space. We need to have a national outrage over these bodies that no one is protecting.”
Maher then said, “I thought, and maybe I’m wrong, that the violence came because the transgender person didn’t tell the guy about their past and then the guy kissed her or something and then found out. And he’s like, ‘Oh now, I’m a homo.”
I challenged Maher by telling him that trans women are not being targeted solely because men find themselves attracted to us. No woman deserves violence. Period. We do not exist to “trick” or “deceive” men into sleeping with us. Trans women are targeted because we exist at vulnerable intersections of race, gender and class. My sisters are vulnerable because no one movement has ever centered the bodies, lives and experiences of these women, except for the severely underfunded, largely volunteer-staffed work of organizations run by and for our communities (from TGIJP,Casa Ruby,TransLatina Coalition,Sylvia Rivera Law Project,TWOCC,TransJustice, to name a few).
Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.
Our visibility at this particular moment in culture is helping reshape the narrative of trans women’s lives, it’s helping those who may not know a trans person get familiar with the lives and struggles of trans people, it’s helping push media gatekeepers to report on our lives with a more just and true lens (though it still seems to be struggling when it comes to Bruce Jenner’s alleged transition). What we can’t expect this visibility to do is cure our society of its longstanding prejudice, miseducation and myths surrounding trans women.
Even on the most liberal shows, trans women are still often punch lines (see any lazy joke targeting Jenner’s femininity and body). Even in our moment in the media spotlight, one fallen white trans bodygarners mainstream headlines over the consistent murders of those that are black and brown. Even in movements organizing against violence against women or black and brown bodies, trans women of color’s bodies are not prone to mass mobilization and I watch as my sisters and siblings speak with one another about protecting trans bodies with hashtags #blacktranslivesmatterand#translivesmatter.
I point out these disparities in an effort to better frame this moment we’re existing in, as someone who has been privileged with access to visibility, as someone who grew up with little access to mirrors that represented me. I am humbled that I can be one such mirror for girls growing up like I did. Representation is an affirming start, but it’s not everything.
There’s much we should be applauding, yet as we applaud, we must also be aware of those women existing outside of the media’s narrow lens, the women organizing, the women on the streets hustling, the women rejected from shelters and improperly placed in men’s detention and prison facilities, the women volunteering their limited resources to support communities of trans folk who’ve been overwhelming neglected by movements.
The names of our sisters shouldn’t only make headlines when we walk a red carpet or lay in a casket. Our visibility shouldn’t be subject to such extreme circumstances. We’ve grown too accustomed, in the past year, to speaking the names of Laverne Cox and Janet Mock, and giving ourselves social justice cred for doing so. This is dangerously tokenizing and speaks to the hypervisibility of women of color who are expected to not only carry their dreams but the dreams of an entire race and people with them.
It’s part of the reason why I am weary of amplifying these women’s deaths because it often feels like these women’s names are only spoken by the majority of us when they can no longer respond. But I must speak their names and when I do, I am aware that my sisters do not need to be reminded of their vulnerability and the threat of violence that looms over their lives.
Fourth trans person killed in 2015: Rest in power Taja Gabrielle de Jesus February 7, 2015
Her name is Taja Gabrielle De Jesus and she was 36 years old.
De Jesus was found on the steps of a building stairwell at 1400 McKinnon near Lane Street suffering from multiple stab wounds around 9 AM PST on Sunday February 1 in San Francisco’s Bayview district by SFPD police officers responding to the call.
She was declared dead at the scene by paramedics, and after interviewing witnesses a suspect described as a 6 foot 1 Black male wearing a black jacked and shorts fled the scene shortly before arrival of the police.
De Jesus is now the fourth trans person killed this year, the first this month and the first trans Latina this year.
Anyone with information that will result in the capture and prosecution of the waste of DNA who killed Taja is asked to contact SFPD at (415) 575-4444.
Rest in power and peace Taja. We will not rest until the perpetrator is caught and doing serious time for prematurely taking you away from us.
Source Photo: Transgender activists storm Creating Change conference in Denver demanding justice for the trans community.
Honoured to have illustrated this very important subject affecting Nigerians. Let’s never forget Black Lives Matter 100% also means African Lives Matter. 3 black & white editorial illustrations for Sahelien.com, The Sahel’s Premier News Website:
On October 20th 2020, the Nigerian Military opened fire on peaceful #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos, Nigeria, killing, according to eye witnesses and live-streamed social media posts, at least 15 people. The massacre put a brutal halt to street protests that had galvanised the nation for two weeks following the brutal killing of a man in Ughelli, Delta state, on October 7th by officers from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
To honor the End SARS movement, @saheliencom solicited stories of encounters with Nigerian police, and commissioned me to illustrate 3 of them. Oyekanmi, Lanre and Ayomide’s stories are of many depicting the everyday horror Nigerians face at the hands of the police, and the courage citizens show in resisting their brutality.
Oyekanmi, a student, recounts being accosted, assaulted and thrown in a cell after just going out to the store to get more kerosene for dinner. Lanre, a graphic designer, recounts being accused of being an internet fraudster and assaulted in his own living room, after an officer barged into he and his wife’s home with an AK47. Ayomide recounts being stopped during a car journey, with officers using their AK47 to break their car window, physically assaulting their driver, while accusing them of fraudulent actions, with no proof of said acts. Read all 3 in French or English on @saheliencom. Please share with the EndSARS hashtag to bring more visibility to this issue. Special thanks to @joepenney.
Crooked and straight is man’s justice. Naked and shorn am I before him. I am the deer but they see only a serpent. I am the white swan; I am the black swan. I rise above them as a queen. Restrain their tongues and Let justice flow from my left hand.
If you’d like, please sign this petition to grant clemency to Melissa Lucio. There is no evidence that Melissa committed the crime she is sentenced to death for!!
I know this is extremely disturbing. I know the black trans community doesn’t need to be reminded of their trauma. And I am so damn sorry that you still have to wake up in such a hateful world and ostracizing society but I refuse to simply forget about two innocent souls that were taken away way too soon. We have to raise awareness, we have to educate ourselves more on these very touchy subjects, we have to be better, we have to build a better future, we just have to, this cannot be a regular, standard routine.
May they rest in peace.
“You can help the Brave Space Alliance provide funeral accommodations for Courtney and Tyianna by donating to their Funeral Fund at
Courtney and Tyianna, rest in power. We will say your names aloud as a solemn commitment to fight tirelessly for dignity, safety and justice for all trans people.”
“University Heights High School is on St. Anns Avenue in the South Bronx, which is part of the poorest congressional district in America, according to the Census Bureau. Six miles away is the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, with its arched stone entrance and celebrities’ children and $43,000-a-year tuition. Eight years ago, as part of a program called Classroom Connections, students from the schools began exchanging letters, which eventually led to a small group from University Heights visiting Fieldston for a day. “At the time in our school, these were tough street kids,” said Lisa Greenbaum, who has been teaching English literature at University Heights for 10 years. “They walked into Fieldston, and they were just overwhelmed. They couldn’t imagine that this was just minutes from where they lived, and they never even knew about it. One kid ran crying off campus. It made them so disheartened about their own circumstances.”
Part of a climate-related project in the run-up to COP26′s “Do the Green Thing’s The Colour of the Climate Crisis”.
Taking place at Glasgow’s Pipe Factory but existing as a permanent digital space, the exhibition brings together the work of 24 black creatives and creatives of colour.
The work explores climate injustice – the idea that black people, indigenous people and people of colour are most affected by the climate crisis (and sometimes least responsible for it).
Data visualisation artist Mona Chalabi, Pentagram partner Eddie Opara, and type designer Tré Seals have all contributed.
The Colour of the Climate Crisis is a project by Do The Green Thing, an environmental social initiative that uses creativity to combat the climate crisis. Come say hi.
“But like so many American institutions, debt forgiveness—and the social mobility it enabled—applied almost exclusively to native-born white men. Nonwhite populations faced land divestment, chattel slavery, and disproportionate incarceration, followed by a subsequent regime of debt peonage and forced labor.” Read the full essay.
“Limiting our ambit to suffering, resistance, and achievement is not enough. We must go to the root—the historical, political, social, cultural, ideological, material, economic root—of oppression in order to understand its negation, the prospect of our liberation. Going to the root illuminates what is hidden from us, largely because most structures of oppression and all of their various entanglements are simply not visible and not felt.” Read our full March/April forum.
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