These Black Trans Couples’ Stories Tug At Our Heartstrings
The couples speak to the daily experience of living at the crossroads of being black and identifying as LGBT. Together or separate, these two groups carry the burden of societal implications that stem from ignorance and assumptions. Milan shares that his mother was fearful that he would not find love – a common concern among loved ones of those in the trans community, he said.
Watch the full video and you’ll really believe in true love after hearing from these black trans couples.
Beautiful video about black transgender love
XQsí Magazine — The rise of genderqueer youth in popular culture
Benji Delgadillo,a 16-year-old who identifies as a genderqueer,
transgender, pansexual male, talks about the intersection of race and
access to (gender/)queer identities.
starting a series of fairytales! But told in my own way So here’s the first one about a princess who only wanted to have her outside match her inside.
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IS THIS TRANS QUEER BROWN CINDERELLA WHAT IN THE FUCK WE WERE NOT READY
The Muxes of Juchitán
Juchitán is a towns in the southeast of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The city which is largely inhabited by the Zapotec Indigenous people, has not only preserved it’s precolonial language and culture, but has also retained gender identities and roles that transcend the traditional western ones. Those which were subjected onto much of the rest of Mexican society by European colonizers.
This contrasting expression of gender that survives among the Zapotec and Mestizo communities of southern Oaxaca, takes its form in the concept of the muxe. Muxe is a term used to refer to those assigned male at birth, but who identify either as women or as a distinct third-gender. They are an intrinsic part of Zapotec society, and highly respected for the roles they play in families, such as taking care of their elderly parents, when their siblings have moved out of the household. Despite the acceptance of them in many rural areas, they face discrimination in more urban areas, mainly by non-Indigenous people who have inherited the Spanish cultural attitude of machismo.
We Are the Youth supports #BlackOutDay
“Black transgender people live in extreme poverty with 34% reporting a household income of $10,000 or less, over eight times the general population rate - National Black Justice Coalition” via Deviant Phoenix
“DARKMATTER is a trans south asian art and activist collaboration comprised of janani and alok. using poetry & polemic, tweet & tirade DM is committed to an art practice of gender self(ie) determination, racial justice, and movement building. DM has been invited to perform and facilitate workshops across the world. you can follow their antics at www.darkmatterrage.com or darkmatterrage
Janani Balasubramanian is a trans south asian artivist-techie based in brooklyn. they work as a designer and ½ of the spoken word duo DARKMATTER. janani’s work has been featured in Black Girl Dangerous, Racialicious, Model View Culture, MSNBC, Colorlines, Upworthy, Autostraddle, TEDx, and various print publications. they’ve been invited to perform and facilitate workshops at universities and organizations across the world. janani likes using words/maps/design to tell nonlinear stories about empire, desire, microflora, ancestry, apocalypse, and the Future. they’re currently working on their first sci-fi novel, H, and a comic collection, SHY. you can read more of their work at www.queerdarkenergy.com.
tl;dr: Janani is a shy nerd who regularly questions whether they’re real or imaginary. check out queerdarkenergy.com.
Alok Vaid-Menon is a trans/national south asian writer, performer, and solidarity activist who has organized with racial, economic, and gender justice movements across the world. their creative & political work grapples with questions of diaspora, trauma, race, desire, and politics. as a staff member of the audre lorde project (a grassroots organizing center for LGBT people of color) and ½ of the spoken word collaboration DARKMATTER, alok is committed to building the collective power of young queer and trans people of color. alok has been invited to perform and facilitate at universities, conferences, and organizations across the world; their work has appeared in various zines & media/publishing outlets like MTV, Best Sex Writing 2015, The New York Times, Upworthy, TEDx and more. to read more visit www.returnthegayze.com
tl;dr: Alok is a brown femme with lots of feelings and is trying to make the world a better place one poem at a time. read more at returnthegayze.com”
