It is no secret that corporate America is not concerned with Black trans* and gender-non-conforming lives, however, it is sometimes surprising that the same is true for big name non-profits such as the Human Rights Campaign and The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. This lack of consideration for certain lives is very much a result of the non-profit industrial complex which silences and forgets those most affected by what these organizations claim to be fighting against.
\nIt is for these reasons, and many other instances of erasure and silencing, that organizations like the Audre Lorde Project (ALP) do such important work for trans* and GNC people of color. This statement is merely a small example of the ways that ALP fights and supports trans* and GNC PoC.
\nThese points of unity, as released on Trans Day of Action, call attention to the many different ways that TGNCPOC communities are oppressed. From insisting that all TGNCPOC immigrants are fully 'legalized,' to holding accountable the violently exclusive housing and education systems, this list of demands makes clear both the problems these communities face as well as the work being done to combat them.
\nThe Audre Lorde Project is one of the leading, radical organizations doing work to support and move TGNCPOC towards liberation.
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\nDarkMatter is an art and activist duo made up of Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian, two South Asian, genderf*ck organizers dedicated to movement building and liberation. Although neither identify as trans* women of color, this piece is important in highlighting the ways in which trans* people of color are forced to internalize violent ideas about themselves, and more specifically, violent notions of who is considered beautiful. Desire for trans* people of color lies somewhere in the tense space between exoticization and abandonment. They are either sought out to represent some awkward societal ideal about 'difference,' or completely left of conversations about beauty. This piece is important to start thinking about all the things our community must work to unlearn; it allows us both to laugh and to think critically about those violent lessons we have learned.
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\nMarsha \"Pay It No Mind\" Johnson is widely celebrated as one of the Mothers of the T*WOC community. She was one of the founders of STAR, the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, who organized with sex workers, incarcerated people and against many of the issues facing her communities in the 70s and 80s. She was also present at, and played a big role in the Stonewall Riots in '69. Johnson, among others, was found dead in the Hudson River in '92.
\nIn this piece, Gossett writes about the violence against T*WOCs implicit in the contemporary gay rights/LGBT equality movement which prioritizes and romanticizes the lives of cisgender, gay white males instead of those most affected by homophobia,not to mention racism, classism and transphobia. She lets the reader know that assimilation was never Johnson's goal - that organizing against the prison system and supporting people against poverty, homelessness and policing are more effective methods for survival and liberation.
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\nThe article goes on to mention the role of privilege in the T*WOC community, intersectional oppressions and is ultimately a call to action to take up the fight against police brutality.
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\nJessica* is a 16 year-old transgender girl. She has been in and out of the foster care ...
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\nThe current progressive political climate is very much concerned with violence against Black bodies, especially as it pertains to the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. \"Black Lives Matter\" has become the newest mantra of the social justice community; it has proved to be both a trend and a call to action - more people are paying attention, but it is hard to gauge how committed they are to showing up and doing the work. However, in mourning the much too frequent loss of Black and Brown people, it is easy (it is encouraged) that we forget certain lives / certain identities. Cisgender Black men, although vastly overrepresented in statistics about police violence, are not the only marginal communities being targeted. Transgender women and gender-non-conforming people of color are also victims, however, their deaths are more likely to go uncovered by big media, and therefore, this issue goes unrecognized by the greater US community. This lack of coverage is very much made possible by the fact that it is not within the intentions of those in power to remember that trans* women of color exist let alone to protect them and keep them safe. Further, when big media new sources do not even consider the mass deaths of trans* women of color to be something worth reporting, it is even harder for people to understand that violence against these communities is not limited to police brutality. Trans* women of color experience violence related to the prison system, media representation, homelessness, an unfair immigration system, an exploitative economic system and countless other oppressive ways to deny resources to those for whom survival is not guaranteed.
\nThe following annotated bibliography is a collection of sources relevant to violence against transgender* women of color.
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\nIn this piece, Mock writes about choosing to stay silent on Trans Day of Remembrance. She does not oppose the concept of the day, in fact, she claims to admire it, arguing that trans* POC actually need more spaces to reflect together. However, she points out that mourning on this day implies that our communities do not mourn all year. She also asserts that we cannot simply choose one day to 'celebrate trans women of color in memoriam'... that we must spend more time actively celebrating and lifting up existence and survival.
\nTrans Day of Remembrance has proven to be important for the trans* and GNC community; this piece offers both affirmation and critique. Janet Mock is an influential thinker, a powerful voice in defense of trans* women of color, and she proudly fights against the violences done to her communities.
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\nJane is being punished for having been neglected by the institutions that claim they are protecting her. They attempt to rationalize her imprisonment by depicting Jane to be unruly and out of control. Young transgender people of color are disproportionately represented in state custody, and as another source on this bibliography addresses, they are also often forgotten and left behind, rendered homeless, jobless and hopeless.
\nThere has been a lot of bubbling resistance in CT and nationwide. Politicized folks are paying attention - the #JusticeForJane moveement is small, but strong. Both Reina Gossett and Janet Mock have released statements and letters of support.
\nhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/chase-strangio/justice-for-jane-doe-and-_b_5494030.html
\nWhen talking about violence against trans* women of color, it is vital that we include youth in the conversation.
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\nHomelessness for trans* youth is caused by many different systems of oppression; from the state's invasive decision to separate families, to a lack of resources available for those who are coming out of juvenile detention centers, to the fact that \"home\" is often a violent space which makes running away seem like the only option. Homeless shelters, although responsible for saving many lives, are bandaids for bullet wounds, often a space where violence occurs as well.
\nThis reports cites the role of media, of families, of organizations and of popular \"LGBT\" discourse in the phenonmenon of trans* and GNC youth of color homelessness.
\nThe Ali Forney Center is the leading organization dedicated providing support for homeless queer and trans* youth in New York City.
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\nTo be clear, there has never been any way of knowing for sure how many trans* and gender-non-conforming women have been murdered -- deaths go unreported, crime cases closed, gender misreported, \"Jane Does,\" and all the ways that trans* women of color's lives and deaths are either completely forgotten or misrepresented in big media news coverage.
\nIt is vital that we pay attention to trans* and gender-non-conforming women who are murdered, as the article states, \"... not simply to cause sadness, but to raise awareness of the need for a world in which such constant mourning is never requisite again.\"
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\nIn 2012, the New York Times published an article (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/nyregion/woman-in-group-of-transgender-performers-dies-in-brooklyn-fire.html?_r=4&) about a young trans woman who died when her apartment caught fire. This news coverage would be acceptable, except the article begins, \"She was 25 and curvaceous, and she often drew admiring glances in the gritty Brooklyn neighborhood where she was known to invite men for visits to her apartment...\" This story, about a woman who died in a fire, was instead turned into an offensive description of a stereotype these writers projected as their image of trans* women of color, and an ignorantly comical devaluation of T*WOC lives, even in death. Further, the writers entertained the woman's neighbors misgendering her, and even managed to feel it was necessary to very selectively mention what she had in her trash, which included \"... wigs, women's shoes, coins from around the world, makeup, hairspray...\" etc.
\nIt is evident in both the murders of trans* women of color and in the ways that society regards (or disregards) them in death that the lives of trans* women of color are not valued or respected. Big media's ignorance and blatant disrespect for these marginal communities weighs heavy on the ways in which the greater US society forms its perception of trans* women of color.
\nThis NYT article is the reason that it is important to support new sources and spaces for information exchange run and led by marginal communities (http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/).
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This Democracy Now! clip features Alisha Williams, an attorney at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Laverne Cox, an activist and actress most widely known for her role as Sophia in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, and CeCe McDonald, a transgender woman put in prison for nineteen months for defending herself against a transphobic attack. CeCe was incarcerated in a men's facility for the duration of her imprisonment, and talks about choosing not to fight that placement in this interview. She also speaks about femininity, self-hate and fear. Laverne speaks more theoretically about the ways in which trans* bodies of color are regulated and misunderstood, how society thinks about gender, steps moving forward for understanding and listening to trans* women of color, and about her fellow activist and friend Janet Mock's infamous interview with Piers Morgan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btmMVM23Ekk).
\nHearing CeCe tell her story is important to understanding the violent relationship between transgender women of color, the prison system and the prison-industrial complex, which very much depends on the institution of gender to demonize certain bodies and pathologize certain identities.
\nCeCe has become a vehement prison abolitionist, even making appearances at the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) with Janet Mock, Reina Gossett, Che Gossett, Brittney Cooper and surprise guest, Laverne Cox.
\nLaverne Cox's \"FREE CeCe\" documentary (http://www.freececedocumentary.net/) is expected to be completed by 2016.
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