black trans women
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Tonya Harvey Is 3rd Transgender Woman Killed in US in 2018
A transgender woman in Buffalo, N.Y., was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon, and her death is being investigated as a hate crime. The Buffalo News reports that Tonya Harvey, 35, was shot around 5:30 p.m. on a dead-end street. She died at the scene. Police have not released any other information regarding the shooting. Harvey, who…
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If You’re Not Watching Ts Madison and Khia’s The Queens Court, What’s Taking You So Long?
My introduction to Ts Madison, the adult entertainer-turned-trans activist, recording artist and internet personality, was a video of her cursing out critics who felt she may not be the right kind of transgender activist. “Fuck alll you hoes that feel some type of way about Ts Madison, ’cause guess what, bitch? I’m that ho in…
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After Black Transgender Woman Is Killed in Oklahoma City, Police Are Still Searching for Answers
Around 2:30 Monday morning, Oklahoma City police responded to a disturbance at a local motel. Upon arriving, they found the body of Brooklyn BreYanna Stevenson, a 31-year-old black transgender woman. She had been murdered. As Oklahoma City’s KFOR-TV reports, police are still unsure what the killer or killers’ motives might have been and have made…
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Transgender Woman Spent 10 Years Inside Men’s Prisons and Is Fighting to Make Sure That Never Happens to Another Woman
A few weeks ago, in the buildup of the travesty-shamockery that was the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-vs.-Conor McGregor fight, the great boxing analyst Teddy Atlas was forced to vamp on ESPN as cameras showed a McGregor workout. Although I could listen to Teddy Atlas read a phone book or, even worse, Taylor Swift lyrics, he left…
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Watch: Raquel Willis on Bringing Your Black Transgender Identity to Work
“Right now is the time to be your most different, most radical, most unique self—and you should own that.” —Raquel Willis Raquel Willis was recognized on The Root 100 this year for her unapologetic voice and dedicated work to elevate the transgender community. Watch above for her personal story about how hiding her true identity…
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Did the Director of the Marsha P. Johnson Netflix Doc Steal a Black Trans Filmmaker’s Work?
Accusations against David France, the award-winning director of the new Netflix documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, have been gaining steam in the last week. At the center of the growing controversy is a transgender woman of color, activist and filmmaker Reina Gossett, who claims that France lifted her work in making…
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Spelman Changes Admissions Policy, Will Admit Transgender Students in Fall 2018
As noted writer and transgender advocate Raquel Willis once declared, trans women are women. And so it follows that black trans women should be able to attend one of the world’s premier HBCUs created just for black women. Turns out now they can. Spelman College has stepped up, and President Mary Schmidt Campbell announced that…
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Watch: Black Trans Women Are Dying
Woman is the nigger of the world. —John Lennon This loaded song lyric is not only a manifestation of a Yoko Ono-hypnotized John Lennon, but a statement that stops you in your tracks. If that’s the case, then what of black women? Moreover, what of transgender women, and to take it even further—what of black…