How to Make Occupy Wall Street More Trans-Inclusive
Filed By Toshio Meronek | November 01, 2011 5:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/11/sylvia_rivera_law_project_teach-in_at_occupy_wall.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2011/11/sylvia_rivera_law_project_teach-in_at_occupy_wall.php)
A big problem with social justice movements? Forgetting - and sometimes resisting - to include the people who are the most oppressed in the process. The crew at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project knows the problem first-hand, and stopped by Occupy Wall Street last week to help other protesters understand where they're coming from. [See a video of the teach-in below.]
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Jeannine Tang ended the event with seven statements to help make the Occupy movement a safer space queers and trans people:
We support gender self-determination for trans women, trans men, gender non-conforming people, and we desire gender self-determination for all.