Rallies Set Tuesday to Address Violence Against Black Trans Women

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Rallies Set Tuesday to Address Violence Against Black Trans Women

http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2015/08/24/rallies-set-tuesday-address-violence-against-black-trans-women

The Advocate/BY Trudy Ring August 24 2015 10:04 PM ET

"#BlackLivesMatter organizers will stand up for black transgender women and point out the wave of violence against this population with rallies around the country Tuesday.

Eighteen transgender people have been reported murdered this year, most of them black trans women, plus one victim whose gender identity is in dispute. That exceeds the number of reported murders of trans people in all of 2014, and does not include those whose deaths were not reported or investigated or those who have been misgendered by law enforcement and media."

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Op-ed: All Men Must Remember Their Sisters on #TransLiberationTuesday

http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/08/25/op-ed-all-men-must-remember-their-sisters-transliberationtuesday

The Advocate/BY Preston Mitchum and Aaron Goggans August 25 2015 4:45 AM ET

"This is a letter from one cis-brother to another.

The history of black oppression is defined not only by the stories we share, but by the stories we silence. At the core of the movement for black lives are the stories of the victims of state-sanctioned violence. We must repeatedly show the body of evidence of our oppression by highlighting the literal black "bodies" the state has destroyed. Yet time and time again, the stories of black cis men have been highlighted, their narratives uplifted while the narratives of black women were added as an afterthought. This violent act of erasure for black women generally is compounded for black trans women, who are surviving on the intersection of too many systems of interlaced oppression."