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Time To Define Ourselves

Started by Butterfly, September 16, 2010, 05:02:02 PM

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September 16, 2010, 05:02:02 PM
Time To Define Ourselves
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
16 September, 2010


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/09/time-to-define-ourselves.html


'If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.'

That quote from Audre Lorde that pretty much sums up the mental space where a lot of African descended transpeople are right now.

Because of our lack of visibility, whitewashing of our history, and lack of inclusion into the leadership ranks of the trans community, we find ourselves in the first year of the second decade of the 21st century at a crossroads.
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