Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Today I send my love to all my trans sisters of color, to #girlslikeus, to the sisters we've lost and the sisters we love, to the sisters we forget about and the sisters that lead us, the sisters that love us and the sisters who can't stand us. Bless each and every one of you for the blessings you bring into our lives, into the lives of your families and loves, into the lives of youth that may or may not know their futures are made better because you are here today.
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov
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On day 19 of #TransLoveNov, I send my love to my brown bois. In March 2013, I got to be part of a cohort of brown bois participating in the Brown Boi Project's Leadership Retreat. My life was changed forever that week on. I found a space where for the first time in my almost-32-years-by-then life I felt whole and loved in that wholeness. I found another family. And I found purpose. That week is single-handedly responsible for me deciding to investigate transmasculine college students' conceptualizations of masculinity. Some days, being a brown boi and being a part of the Brown Boi Project is really hard for all kinds of reasons. But I am not alone in that hard place, I am among many committed to radically changing our worlds and our ways of being.
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov On day 18 of #TransLoveNov, I send my love to Melvin Antoine Whitehead. Melvin and I were both in college at the same time in Michigan, but he went to the other school. Through mutual friends and mutual loves for brunch, books, and doing work with LGBTQ students on college campuses, our friendship has grown over the years. He just started his doctoral journey at the University of Georgia and I cannot wait for the groundbreaking research and advocacy he will be producing with and for LGBTQ community college students. Miss his face!
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov On day 17 of #TransLoveNov I send my love to my boi Blue! I'm lucky that I met Blue almost as soon as I got to Chicago and we've been bois since. Blue has really been there for me through some pretty intense times lately and I'm not sure what I would have done without him. He is currently in his second year at the University of Chicago getting his MSW, and he's going to be an amazing asset for his current and future clients. Also, Pokemon GO-ing is a helluva lot more fun together!
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov On day 16 of #TransLoveNov, I send my love to my brother Kai. Dr. Kai M. Green entered my life and agreed to sit on my dissertation committee, but his role in my life exponentially grew after that. Kai is someone that embodies what it means to operationalize love in accountability and another person that holds space for complexity in others. He is also the kind of scholactivist I can only aspire to be one day, the kind of instructor that pushes you to/through your intellectual limit, invested in Black liberation through Black Youth Project 100 and every space he's in, a cultural producer, writes for several online platforms (e.g., Feminist Wire, Everyday Feminism), and is unapologetically free.
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov The third week of #TransLoveNov is dedicated to my kin, so these are just as much personal, as they are activist or artistic, etc. For the first day I send my love to my housemate and partner-in-transing-scholarship, Dr. Z Nicolazzo. Z is one of those special people that doesn't let you fall through the cracks, deeply loving and caring, and holds a lot of room for complexity in others. Hir book Trans* in College: Transgenders Students' Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and Institutional Politics of Inclusion is coming out hella soon.
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov On the end of the week of cultural producers, I send love to Dr. micha cárdenas. An Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Design and Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington's Bothell campus, micha studies the movement (migration, performance and mobility) of trans people of color in digital media. Inspired by a speech by Patrisse Cullors at the Allied Media Conference, the two of them are collaborating, along with Edxie Betts and Chris Head on UNSTOPPABLE, to produce materials and processes for DYI bulletproof clothing at low or no cost.
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov On day 13, I send my love to J Mase III. J Mase III is a poet and educator, who formed the AwQward Talent Agency, the first trans and queer people of color talent agency. J Mase's workshops include working towards racial justice, multi-faith and interfaith work, and anti-oppressive masculinity.
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov On day 12 I send my love to Reina Gossett. An activist fellow at Barnard College's Center for Research on Women, Reina has put in quite the miles in the activism realm and now also using her knowledge and research for film making. Her latest body of work is Happy Birthday, Marsha!, a film about iconic trans artist and activist, Marsha "Pay it no mind" Johnson, who was at the 1969 Stonewall Riots. She also happens to be sibs with another brilliant trans scholar, Che Gossett.
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov On day 11, I send my love to Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi. Lady Dane is a performance artist, actor, dancer, singer, and writer. She has quite the list of publications to her name, and constantly working on the next one, bringing in more and more trans women of color into existence through her stories and poetry. Lady Dane was also a host of Inside Out LGBT Radio on WPFW, so check out some of their archived shows from Tuesday afternoons. If you're headed to Race Forward in Atlanta this year, she'll be there, so bask in her Priestessness.
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