Trans love themed moodboard. The trans love flag was made by @effeminancyboy
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I this age of hate and turmoil, it is great to see a totally queer TV series that presents gay love as something natural and a trans girl as a complete human being.
The actress who portrays Elle Argent, Yasmin Finney, is a trans woman.
Yasmintold PinkNews during a roundtable discussion that she is “so blessed” to be portraying Elle.
Yasmin said:
“It really, really, really is such a rare story that we get a trans character that doesn’t delve into gender dysphoria, or depression, or bullying, but just the positive – the friendship, the chosen family, the moving from an all boys’ school to an all girls’ school. Just everything that is natural about being trans is highlighted, and I’m just so happy to be that positive representation that we’ve needed for so many years.
“She’s just allowed to love herself with no society telling her what to do and how to act and how to look and who to love and how to be – she’s just her, and I think that’s what’s so beautiful about the trans story that we have in Heartstopper.”
Although this is a festive occasion, it is also a date to protest against the harshness and the violence that our trans sisters and brothers face everyday
ATTENTION ALLIES - Want to learn the best ways to make sure your trans loved ones feel supported during the holidays? Join our webinar tomorrow with Evey Winters for Day Five of “Peace, Love, & Trans Joy: A Virtual Home for the Holidays”!
Allies and folks with trans loved ones are highly encouraged to attend our discussion at 7pm EST to learn how they can best support their trans family members during this holiday season (and always). Register here: bit.ly/TEPholidaysupport
We want to give our community a space to come together safely and frequently for the holidays. Despite the hurt we have individually and collectively felt this year, we can be your home this season.
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Want to meet some of your community members? Join our second of six days of community fun and connection! Tomorrow, Day Two of “Peace, Love, & Trans Joy: A Virtual Home for the Holidays,” is our game day!
Join us for a day of games and prizes. At 1 pm EST, we have a scavenger hunt! At 4 pm EST, we’ll be playing bingo. And we’ll be doing trivia night starting at 7 pm EST. Register for just one or all three here: bit.ly/TEPgameday
We want to give our community a space to come together safely and frequently for the holidays. Despite the hurt we have individually and collectively felt this year, we can be your home this season.
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Want to meet some of your community members? Join our second of six days of community fun and connection! Tomorrow, Day Two of “Peace, Love, & Trans Joy: A Virtual Home for the Holidays,” is our holiday mixer!
For get-to-know-you activities and break out rooms, register here for the Zoom event at 6pm EST tomorrow night: bit.ly/TEPholidaymixer
We want to give our community a space to come together safely and frequently for the holidays. Despite the hurt we have individually and collectively felt this year, we can be your home this season.
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Whether you are feeling holiday cheer or not, we invite you to participate in our six days of community fun and connection! DAY ONE of “Peace, Love, & Trans Joy: A Virtual Home for the Holidays” is tomorrow with Mystery Holiday Theater 3000!
Join us as we watch the holiday classic "Scrooged” and help us roast the heck out of it! Register here for the Zoom event at 5pm EST tomorrow night: bit.ly/MHT3000
We want to give our community a space to come together safely and frequently for the holidays. Despite the hurt we have individually and collectively felt this year, we can be your home this season.
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A big THANK YOU to everyone who joined us over the past six days for community fun and connection in our event series “Peace, Love, & Trans Joy: A Virtual Home for the Holidays.”
Our goal for the events – from movie nights to BINGO to a holiday mixer – was to provide a space for those who were not with their loved ones this holiday season. To everyone who joined us for one or all of the events: THANK YOU. If you have feedback or ideas that you want to see from us – anything to make you feel more at home with your community – let us know!
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As we close out the year, we are also coming to the end of our six days of community fun and connection! Tomorrow is Day Six of “Peace, Love, & Trans Joy: A Virtual Home for the Holidays,” and we are closing it out with a movie night and New Year’s Celebration!
Join us to watch a movie and discuss the highs and lows of 2020 and what is on the horizon for 2021, starting at 6pm EST. Register here: bit.ly/TEPnewyear
We want to give our community a space to come together safely and frequently for the holidays. Despite the hurt we have individually and collectively felt this year, we can be your home this season.
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Tista Das, a transgender activist and actress, married her partner Dipan Chakraborty in a Hindu ceremony in Agarpara, Kolkata in front of friends, neighbours and family members.
The couple met while Tista was working at a trans legal clinic. Dipan is also transgender.
“This wedding will boost the transgender community. It will have a huge impact as the trans community fears being rejected by society. I wish Dipan and Tista a happy married life. They are both wonderful human beings,” said Aparajita Bose, a member Human Rights Law Network Kolkata, to The Times of India.
Every act of trans acceptance, of gay love, anything that rejects strict heterosexual gender norms in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh is an act of anticolonial resistance. It’s been over 250 years, but brown people are slowly taking their countries back
