Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Are Black Transwomen's Lives Less Valuable Than Others?
Posted by Monica Roberts at 4:30 AM
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/01/are-black-transwomens-lives-less.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/01/are-black-transwomens-lives-less.html)
Let's start this off with a hypothetical question.
If 70% of the Remembering Our Dead List was made up of people sharing your ethnic heritage, out of the 31 killed in the previous year 3/4 shared your ethnic heritage, your transwomen were called 'ugly', automatically associated with prostitution and criminal behavior despite positive accomplishments to the contrary, and your attempts to call attention to this ongoing genocide were questioned, dismissed, or called 'alarmist', you were greeted with silence by the organizations inside and outside your community that are supposed to help and represent you, and you just watched two more of your sisters get shot (one fatally) to close out the holidays, how would you feel?
Well peeps, you just got to try on the pumps Black transwomen have been struggling to walk in lately.
Don't feel too good now do they?