Musing About Avon Wilson's Blended Life

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Musing About Avon Wilson's Blended Life
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
April 5, 2009


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/04/musing-about-avon-wilsons-blended-life.html


One of the things that I've lamented in terms of being a transwoman of African descent is that unlike my white sisters, I don't have marquee transwomen to point to such as the Christine Jorgenson's, April Ashley's and Coccinelle's of the world.

We know from Teenie Harris' Pittsburgh Courier photos of the Pittsburgh TBLG/SGL community, the coverage of Finnie's ball in Chicago and the New York balls that we existed during that time period, so why didn't a Black transwoman emerge with the same kind of star power?