11/19/2022 0 Comments Black folxin Counseling Psychology at the University of Kentucky. LOL! But I wanted to be further trained by Black folx to provide therapy to Black folx, so I decided 5 years ago to move up a few states to get my Ph.D. I asked myself “Why not get all the degrees I can at one time, in one place, and for one price?” This is how I tend to rationalize my choices. degrees in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. I’m learning balance! I’m a two-time graduate of Clemson University (Go Tigers!) with a B.A. I’m also a fitness enthusiastic so I have to be mindful of how often I eat my favorite foods. I love seafood, sweet tea, and anything fried - fried pickles, okra, and porkchops. I come from an ancestral lineage of intelligent, innovative, and spiritual leaders who have instilled the values of love, responsibility, and intuition in me. I’m a native of South Carolina and the eldest of the Dogan clan. To start, I’m a Black cisgender heterosexual woman. These murders represent just one more act of violence in a year where Black trans people are being hit the hardest by the pandemic, the economic crisis, and a presidential administration hell-bent on gutting trans rights.I’m gaining more clarity on this question each day. Just this year, we’ve already mourned the loss of at least 36 trans and gender non-conforming people - the majority of whom were Black or Latinx trans women. These communities have always been at the forefront of the struggle for Black and queer liberation, even when their contributions were not welcomed or recognized by traditional Black movement spaces. This Trans Day of Remembrance, we also recognize and call out the violence endured by our Black trans, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex family who we lost too soon. This is just a snapshot of all the work that needs your support. Solutions not Punishment Collaborative (SNaP Co), a Black trans and queer led organization focused on building safety within their community, launched a survey across greater Atlanta to identify real options for community safety as they move their efforts to defund the police. Gays and Lesbians Living In a Transgender Society (G.L.I.T.S) opened the first-ever multiple-dwelling housing complex dedicated, operated, and OWNED by the Black trans community, who have historically faced discrimination in housing due to bias against their gender identity. In the past month alone, Black trans leaders have moved extraordinary, liberatory work:īlack LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP) freed Sza Sza from ICE detention, a Black trans migrant who suffered imprisonment in a cage for 3,599 days (almost 10 years) for seeking asylum and refuge in this country. We want to do that by honoring their lives and their power. We must do better for our Black trans, gender nonconforming, non-binary, and intersex siblings. We know no one will be free, until and unless all Black people are free. We are committed to (un)learning, deepening our organizing and relationships with Black TGNCI leaders, and identifying opportunities to move money to Black TGNCI-led organizations and partners. The Movement for Black Lives is doubling down on our commitment to ending the war on Black trans, gender nonconforming, and intersex (TGNCI) people. But we want you to know that our Vision for Black Lives, a comprehensive and visionary policy agenda for the post-Ferguson Black liberation movement, cannot be realized without a sustained commitment to Black Trans power. Today is International Trans Day of Remembrance, concluding a week of Trans Awareness where we saw so many voices and organizations honoring and uplifting the power of Black trans folx. All Black people need and deserve liberation. That is a value this movement holds close to our hearts and it informs how and where we work, and with whom we seek to build Black liberation. There is No Movement for Black Lives Without Black Trans Power.
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