LOOK: This New Orleans Billboard Makes 400K Aware of Transphobic Violence Daily

[traci_k]

LOOK: This New Orleans Billboard Makes 400K Aware of Transphobic Violence Daily
BreakOUT!, an LGBT youth of color activist group in New Orleans, has put up a new billboard commuters can't ignore.

http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2015/05/13/look-new-orleans-billboard-makes-400k-aware-antitrans-violence-daily

On The Advocate
BY  Mitch Kellaway   May 13 2015 6:02 AM ET

New Orleans LGBT youth of color activist group BreakOUT! has one simple question: Where is the national outrcry over the murders of trans women of color?

Already this year, nine trans women and gender-nonconforming people have been killed in the U.S., with others likely going unreported or misgendered in death — an average of over two a month, in a consistent trend that the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs considers of "epidemic" proportions. Worldwide, a trans woman is killed nearly every two days. The vast majority of these women are black or Latina.

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[suzifrommd]

Great story. Thanks Traci, for posting it.

Something other communities might think about.

[katrinaw]

pretty hard to miss... agreed Suzi, globally!

L Katy