Black Trans Women

BYP100 Agenda To Build Black Futures, Economic Justice Plan

January 17, 2016 Staff, www.byp100.org Strategize! Black Trans People, Black Trans Women, Black Women, Divestment, New Economy, Prisons, Racism, Reparations

By Staff for BYP100. As people across the world celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and take action to reclaim his legacy of radicalism, the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) announces its upcoming release of the Agenda to Build Black Futures. The Agenda to Build Black Futures, the organization’s second public policy agenda, is a platform for young activists seeking to create a new economy where young Black people can thrive. “For Black people living in America, there is no economic justice without racial justice. We live in a country that tells us that not all of us deserve to breathe, eat well or have access to water,” says BYP100 National Director Charlene Carruthers. We understand that Dr. King’s personal revolution sparked his commitment to economic justice. In doing so, a wider target was placed on his back. His last days were spent among street sanitation workers demanding dignity and fair pay for their work.

Ten LGBTQ News Stories The Mainstream Media Ignored In 2015

December 30, 2015 Toshio Meronek, www.truth-out.org Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black Trans Women

By Toshio Meronek for Truthout - If the mainstream media has its way, 2015 will be remembered as the year gay marriage (and divorce) became legal in the United States; Caitlyn Jenner told us what being a trans woman was really about (famously declaring the "hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear"); and the benevolent tech titans at Facebook made us a rainbow filter for our profile pics (while it continued to repress queer and trans people's ability to use their preferred names). But so much more happened in the last 12 months. Let's talk about the important battles won, and those that we're still fighting, and the people we've lost, and all those who have survived against the odds.

Why We Disrupted Hillary Clinton On Behalf Of Black Trans Women

September 7, 2015 Rian Brown and Angela Peoples, www.getequal.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black Trans Women, Hillary Clinton, Liberation

By Rian Brown and Angela Peoples in Get Equal - Last week, we disrupted Hillary Clinton’s campaign event in Cleveland, OH, asking her to “divest from private prisons, invest in black trans women.” As representatives of Black Lives Matter and GetEQUAL our ask was strategic and intentional. Since Hillary Clinton makes equality for women a critical tenet of her campaign platform, we demand that Clinton -- and our own movement for black lives -- center the black transgender women so often left out of conversations about gender and racial equity. As cisgender Black women, we are fighting for our trans family: we understand that Black liberation means all Black people, and we resist the idea that anyone is disposable in our work. We are in a state of emergency -- the murder rate of trans women of color, particularly Black trans women, is higher than ever, with at least 20 women murdered since the beginning of 2015. Black trans women make up at least 13 of those killed -- in the state of Ohio alone, 6 trans women have been murdered since 2011.

BLM & GetEQUAL: Clinton, Stand W/ Black Trans Women

August 28, 2015 Get Equal, www.getequal.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black Trans Women, Hillary Clinton

By Get Equal - Moments ago, organizers with GetEQUAL and Black Lives Matter disrupted Hillary Clinton’s grassroots campaign event in Cleveland, OH, demanding that she divest from private prisons and invest in the liberation of black transgender women. The organizers interrupted Clinton’s speech in order to name the three black trans women who have been recently murdered in the state of Ohio including Cemia Dove, a black trans woman murdered in Cleveland, carrying signs that read: “Hillary: Divest from Private Prisons, Invest in Black Trans Women.”

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