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Title: More Than Just 'Tragic Transsexuals'
Post by: Butterfly on February 24, 2011, 05:22:59 PM
Post by: Butterfly on February 24, 2011, 05:22:59 PM
More Than Just 'Tragic Transsexuals'
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
24 February, 2011
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/02/more-than-just-tragic-transsexuals.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/02/more-than-just-tragic-transsexuals.html)
"Black women in America are the luckiest on the face of the earth and it will be marvelous to be one." Carole Small JET Magazine March 16,1967
While many of us are feeling Carole Small's comment, one of the things we haven't been lucky with is the whitewashing of our stories to the point that the memes that have plagued Black transwomen besides the 'unwoman' one that we share with our cissisters is the 'tragic transsexual' one
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
24 February, 2011
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/02/more-than-just-tragic-transsexuals.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/02/more-than-just-tragic-transsexuals.html)
"Black women in America are the luckiest on the face of the earth and it will be marvelous to be one." Carole Small JET Magazine March 16,1967
While many of us are feeling Carole Small's comment, one of the things we haven't been lucky with is the whitewashing of our stories to the point that the memes that have plagued Black transwomen besides the 'unwoman' one that we share with our cissisters is the 'tragic transsexual' one