We didn’t just join the party; we threw the party. If you scroll through the news, you’ll see a lot of statistics about the trans community: the high rates of violence against trans women of color, the mental health crisis, the legislative attacks. While it is vital to acknowledge this pain, transgender culture is not defined by tragedy.
From and Sylvia Rivera —two trans women of color who were on the frontlines of the Stonewall Uprising in 1969—to the ballroom culture of the 1980s (immortalized in Pose and Paris is Burning ), trans people have been fighting for, and shaping, queer liberation for over a century. smoking big shemale
We rise together, or we don’t rise at all. We didn’t just join the party; we threw the party