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Black Transpeople's Burden

Started by Butterfly, April 22, 2009, 05:16:01 PM

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April 22, 2009, 05:16:01 PM
Black Transpeople's Burden
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
April 22, 2009


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/04/black-transpeoples-burden.html


My fellow Houstonian uttered those words over a decade and a half ago, but they ring true for every person of African descent. For the last two centuries we've had the burden of having to do more than just pay lip service to the ideas of freedom and equality for all.

We've had to sometimes put our lives on the line for it in addition to march, shed blood, write about, orate, agitate and litigate as well.

As a transperson of African descent I don't have the luxury of disengaging from the battle for transgender civil rights because I'm 'stressed' over the tidal waves of bad news that come at regular intervals as some people do.
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