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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
August 19, 2015
It’s Time! Putting the T Back in Black
It is time we accept that state sanctioned violence is much more than police brutality. In the wake of 5 beautiful trans women losing their lives, just last week alone, we are full of grief. These terrible happenings are a result of the many factors that place black trans women in so much risk just by leaving our homes, if we even have homes to begin with. It is far past the time to shut shit down for black trans folks the same way we shut shit down for cis black men.
Black trans women have consistently resisted against anti blackness, patriarchy, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia and white supremacy by being a model of unapologetic truth. Black resistance doesn’t belong to just one group of black people it belongs to us all. We believe that in order to get free we must all get free. Black trans folks getting free isn’t up for debate.
For more visit: https://www.facebook.com/the.one.and.only.aliciagarza/posts/10206577941183008?comment_id=10206578203829574¬if_t=like&pnref=story
From the Ferguson Response Network. Originally posted August 19th, 2015 12:25pm. Source.