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So let's get back up to backing the rights of trans people (which have lots to do with our actual history) because things are about to get bad, and quick.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
So let's get back up to backing the rights of trans people (which have lots to do with our actual history) because things are about to get bad, and quick.
That image of Joanne Rowling on a boat, smoking a cigar, celebrating the taking away of people's identity is sadly an image I suspect we'll see time and again from people who really want something dangerous to us as black people.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
That image of Joanne Rowling on a boat, smoking a cigar, celebrating the taking away of people's identity is sadly an image I suspect we'll see time and again from people who really want something dangerous to us as black people.
It's genuinely scary.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It's genuinely scary.
If you don't fit into this, you're likely to find yourself ever more fucked, and in a society that cares less and less about how you survive in the world.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
If you don't fit into this, you're likely to find yourself ever more fucked, and in a society that cares less and less about how you survive in the world.
The World is fast tracking into a place that is deeply unsafe if you do not specifically conform to being white, cisgender, straight and rich. If you are all of these things, and more likely a man, you're fine.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The World is fast tracking into a place that is deeply unsafe if you do not specifically conform to being white, cisgender, straight and rich. If you are all of these things, and more likely a man, you're fine.
Because with the UK Supreme Court findings regarding Trans people this week, we are rolling back on a legacy fought for on the backs of black people, and I sadly don't think anyone in my community cares. They probably see it as a good thing.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Because with the UK Supreme Court findings regarding Trans people this week, we are rolling back on a legacy fought for on the backs of black people, and I sadly don't think anyone in my community cares. They probably see it as a good thing.
Instead, her achievements are celebrated in a community outside of our own, and I think it's disgraceful.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Instead, her achievements are celebrated in a community outside of our own, and I think it's disgraceful.
Marsha P. Johnson should be celebrated as a Black Activist Icon as X, Ali, King, and Parks all are, and her impact should be just as respected and celebrated.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Marsha P. Johnson should be celebrated as a Black Activist Icon as X, Ali, King, and Parks all are, and her impact should be just as respected and celebrated.
It shouldn't be this way.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It shouldn't be this way.
The point I'm hopefully making is that Trans activism has a unique and significant history with Black history that very much goes unacknowledged and completely ignored in specifically the black community, leaving it open to bigotry.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The point I'm hopefully making is that Trans activism has a unique and significant history with Black history that very much goes unacknowledged and completely ignored in specifically the black community, leaving it open to bigotry.
Johnson lived until 1992, an activist throughout her life fighting for LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS rights.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Johnson lived until 1992, an activist throughout her life fighting for LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS rights.
She also set up STAR House, a property that took in marginalized trans kids and homeless gay people.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
She also set up STAR House, a property that took in marginalized trans kids and homeless gay people.
STAR continued to appeal for and fight against trans oppression, even though trans rights issues was divisive back even then, though not as it is now.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
STAR continued to appeal for and fight against trans oppression, even though trans rights issues was divisive back even then, though not as it is now.
After the riots, she set up the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), an organisation that represented and fought for trans rights, separate from the gay liberation organisations of the time.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
After the riots, she set up the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), an organisation that represented and fought for trans rights, separate from the gay liberation organisations of the time.
In fact, there's a tale that under police oppression and subsequent protests, Marsha threw a shot glass at the police. This was known as "Bottle Thrown Around The World" and began a series of LGBTQ+ rights protests seen globally today.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
In fact, there's a tale that under police oppression and subsequent protests, Marsha threw a shot glass at the police. This was known as "Bottle Thrown Around The World" and began a series of LGBTQ+ rights protests seen globally today.
The police used to harass and vandalise the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the late 1960s, which eventually led to several demonstrations and riots between 28/06 - 03/07 in 1969.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The police used to harass and vandalise the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the late 1960s, which eventually led to several demonstrations and riots between 28/06 - 03/07 in 1969.
Marsha was a Black trans woman and a burlesque performer who was an integral part of the Stonewall Riots in New York, when the gay bars were run by the Mafia.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Marsha was a Black trans woman and a burlesque performer who was an integral part of the Stonewall Riots in New York, when the gay bars were run by the Mafia.
With the conversation I've seen online in the Black community, especially around trans people, I always think back to Marsha P. Johnson.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
With the conversation I've seen online in the Black community, especially around trans people, I always think back to Marsha P. Johnson.