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HERO Dies..And I'm <edited> About It

Monica Roberts
Wednesday, November 04, 2015

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/11/hero-diesand-im-pissed-about-it.html

The Black LGBT community and our allies have been warning for months that action was needed in our community IMMEDIATELY or else HERO was going down to defeat.   We pleaded for canvassing in our neighborhoods, pro-HERO ads on Houston Black radio stations and hard hitting attacks to destroy the only card our haters had to play in the bathroom meme.

We also needed trans people of color front and center attacking the meme instead of being almost invisible for this entire campaign,  But once again the Houston Black LGBT community was ignored, and this time the whole city will pay for Houston Unites lack of vision and the milquetoast campaign that was run..

Quote from: suzifrommd on November 05, 2015, 05:46:34 AMWe also needed trans people of color front and center attacking the meme instead of being almost invisible for this entire campaign

This pretty much sums up the state of trans activism in the US (maybe even worldwide) today.

The site is run by a trans woman of color, hence the inclusion of the phrase "of color", but I recommend we omit that to read "We also needed trans people of color front and center attacking the meme instead of being almost invisible".

That, all the time, every day, everywhere.

We get so paralyzed by our own sense of self preservation that we fail to make ourselves visible, counted, valid. And to be fair, some of us live in places where being visible is not wise or even safe (you folks get a pass), but most of us just want to be left alone.

That's fine, until something like this happens. We have nobody to blame but ourselves. Had we given a full-court press and still lost, well, that's politics. But it didn't happen that way.

We need to take a page from the LGB playbook. Be visible. Be known. Be real. Be vocal. Be yourself. And eventually the day will come when stuff like this is unimaginable.

Quote from: suzifrommd on November 05, 2015, 05:46:34 AM
HERO Dies..And I'm <edited> About It

Monica Roberts
Wednesday, November 04, 2015

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/11/hero-diesand-im-pissed-about-it.html

The Black LGBT community and our allies have been warning for months that action was needed in our community IMMEDIATELY or else HERO was going down to defeat.   We pleaded for canvassing in our neighborhoods, pro-HERO ads on Houston Black radio stations and hard hitting attacks to destroy the only card our haters had to play in the bathroom meme.

We also needed trans people of color front and center attacking the meme instead of being almost invisible for this entire campaign,  But once again the Houston Black LGBT community was ignored, and this time the whole city will pay for Houston Unites lack of vision and the milquetoast campaign that was run..

Well my solution to the Texas problem is simply never go there.  In fact I'll never go back to the south period.  There really is no reason to.  The south has nothing to offer.