The Spirit Was...

The most powerful speech I’ve ever heard from Angela...

fortyday — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:59:00 -0400

The most powerful speech I’ve ever heard from Angela Davis. She’s holding up the incredibly legacy of Miss Major, Eric A Stanley, Cece McDonald, Dean Spade, Beth Ritchie, The Transgender Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), disability justice and trans women of color activism!

also critiquing the equality movement.

and assata:

“At this moment I am not so concerned about myself. Everybody has to die sometime, and all i want to is to go with dignity. i am more concerned about the growing poverty, the growing despair that is rife in amerikkka. i am more concerned about our younger generations who represent our future. i am more concerned about the rise of the prison industrial complex that is turning our people into slaves again. i am more concerned about the repression, the police brutality, violence, the rising wave of racism that makes up the political landscape of the US today. our young people deserve a future and i consider it the mandate of my ancestors to be a part of the struggle to ensure that they have one!”

Brilliant!

janetmock: I don’t think reina and I could laugh any bigger...

fortyday — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:16:34 -0400

janetmock:

I don’t think reina and I could laugh any bigger while sharing space at SRLP’s super successful art auction, “Small Works For Big Change.”

basking in the presence of the one and only Janet Mock!

bklynboihood: SRLP’s 8th ANNUAL SMALL WORKS for BIG CHANGE the...

fortyday — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:49:38 -0400

bklynboihood:

SRLP’s 8th ANNUAL SMALL WORKS for BIG CHANGE the MUSIC VIDEO! (by SylviaRiveraLP)

janetmock: “We are all victims of violence and the injustices and oppression of a faulty...

fortyday — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:15:03 -0400

janetmock:

“We are all victims of violence and the injustices and oppression of a faulty legal system and the PIC. And in memoriam of all our fallen sisters, this is for you! Our flames of resilience and tenacity burn bright in the efforts of a revolution for women. We will not give up until there are the necessary changes in this world for better protection and equality. And it is up to us to show that we are concerned and that none of our struggles will go in vain.”

CeCe McDonald, in her new piece called, “Violence Against (Trans) Women Today” in which she discusses street harassment and violence and her being criminilized because she dared to defend herself.

You are so loved, CeCe. Thank you for your leadership.

Yes! Free Our Siblings, Free Our Selves!

Help Support Egyptt! Please Signal Boost

fortyday — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:06:00 -0400

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Dear Friends & Community,

We are writing to let you know of a community member who needs support after going through a major health crisis. Many of you know Egyptt, a long time activist and advocate for low income, trans communities of color.

Egyptt was formerly co-coordinator of Trans Justice at the Audre Lorde Project. Prior to her work at ALP she was a crucial member of the Queers for Economic Justice Welfare Warriors group where she lead the way fighting transphobia within New York City’s welfare agency: the Human Resources Administration. Because of Egyptt’s work NYC’s Human Resources Administration has adopted its first ever transgender non discrimination policy, which Egyptt helped implement through many trainings of New York City employees.

Additionally Egyptt has been a long time advocate at Housing Works advocating to have New York State pass the Gender Employment Non Discrimination Act (GENDA). She is also a brilliant performer, frequently showcasing her talent at the Housing Works fashion shows and many Trans Day of Remembrance events. Egyptt is now unemployed and has lost her apartment in Harlem.

We are turning to you, our community, to support Egyptt as she navigates this challenging moment. We want to raise 10,000 for Egyptt to get back some of what she has lost in the last few months. She needs resources to get back into housing, to replace lost possessions, and to cover outstanding healthcare costs.

With deep appreciation,
Reina Gossett, Pooja Gehi, & Dean Spade

Isis King snapped this photo of the Isis, Janet & me having...

fortyday — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:46:55 -0400

Isis King snapped this photo of the Isis, Janet & me having a power kiki -the first step to girlslikeus taking over the world!

sistahmamaqueen: if you’re a trans woman of color and you follow me, LET ME KNOW!!! i hella love...

fortyday — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:33:46 -0400

sistahmamaqueen:

if you’re a trans woman of color and you follow me, LET ME KNOW!!!

i hella love connecting w/ fellow TWOCs and obvsiously [not a typo] we’re all super gorg and amazing. so let’s build ourselves up!

Yes!!!

Holding Space for Cemia Dove's death

fortyday — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:36:00 -0400

Holding space for Cemia Dove who was found murdered in the waters of Cleveland…

and the many black trans women who are found murdered after having to navigate their survival being criminalized.

from Gay Star News

“In the past, [Cemia Dove] had clashed with police and the courts over her wish to be treated as a woman.

In January 2012, a judge found her guilty of possessing dangerous drugs after Acoff pleaded no contest.

These drugs included hormones used to boost oestrogen in women. She was fined $1000 (€768) and sentenced to 100 days in jail.

A year before, Acoff was fined $100 (€77) after being found guilty of failing to pay a fare and telling officers she was a woman.”

photo by the esteemed Chris (Your Pants) Vargas. capturing my...

fortyday — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:42:14 -0400

photo by the esteemed Chris (Your Pants) Vargas. capturing my best side in my newly acquired mansion while on tour with the always amazing Eric A Stanley & Ryan Conrad at Wesleyan for Imagining Queer Justice gathering.

blingee!

Tonight! Life Chances: HIV Criminalization and Trans Politics

fortyday — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:36:44 -0400

Can’t wait to hear these brilliant folks tonight!

Life Chances: HIV Criminalization and Trans Politics
In Conversation with Che Gossett, Dean Spade, Mitchyll Mora, and Sean Strub
Hosted by Laverne Cox

April 24th, 2013 @ 7pm
Leslie Lohman Museum
26 Wooster Street
Free
https://www.facebook.com/events/514413998623156/

“How can we build real safety in communities and achieve universal access to material well being?” - Dean Spade

Life Changes, will examine discriminatory laws and regulations such as “stop and frisk” and “condoms as evidence”, disclosure, and other rules, systems and norms that reduce life chances for trans people and/or people who are living with HIV.

Hosted by LAVERNE COX, in this conversation, CHE GOSSETT, DEAN SPADE, MITCHYLL MORA, and SEAN STRUB will discuss issues related to trans politics and HIV criminalization, activism, resistance and social justice. Audience participation is encouraged.

Presented by Visual AIDS, QUEEROCRACY, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and the Sex Workers Outreach Project.

yes honey, and i’m gonna burn your house down!

fortyday — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:39:00 -0400

yes honey, and i’m gonna burn your house down!

Giving my springtime warm weather gender dysphoria a run for its...

fortyday — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:06:24 -0400

Giving my springtime warm weather gender dysphoria a run for its money with some transfabulous attire!

getting excited 4 the best art event of the year! May 18th //...

fortyday — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:27:12 -0400

getting excited 4 the best art event of the year!

May 18th // Sylvia Rivera Law Project Collective // Judson Memorial

8th ANNUAL SMALL WORKS for BIG CHANGE!

Venue: Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square S., NYC Wheelchair accessible

Featuring:
MC’d by Chanel International
Music by DJ Tikka Masala
Fabulous art (see list below)
Fantastic raffle prizes – 16GB Ipod Touch from Tekserve, a gift certificate for 10 joe coffee beverages, Amy Ray concert tickets & a $500 publicity package courtesy of Riot Grrrl Ink, event tickets from La Mama Experimental Theatre, and books from NYU Press!

more info here

Friday at Rutgers: Trans Politics Scholarship & Strategies Conference!

fortyday — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:45:01 -0400

This Friday I’ll be heading to Rutgers University for the Trans Politics: Scholarship & Strategies for Social Change conference.

I’ll be reading a new piece I am working on about trans hirstory, Marsha P Johnson (thats Randy Wicker’s poster above) and growing a culture of trans liberation. If you are in the area please join me! Some fabulous folks including Kim Watson, Jeanne Vaccaro, Ben Singer, Nora Butler-Burke & Dean Spade will be also be there!

More information about the conference is here

So excited about… Life Chances: HIV Criminalization and...

fortyday — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:57:48 -0400

So excited about…

Life Chances: HIV Criminalization and Trans Politics

IN CONVERSATION WITH CHE GOSSETT, DEAN SPADE, AND SEAN STRUB

April 24th, 7PM, FREE! Don’t sleep on this one y’all!

more info here

Save The Date! I’ll be joining my Captive Genders editor...

fortyday — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:17:27 -0400

Save The Date! I’ll be joining my Captive Genders editor Eric A Stanley & Ryan Conrad at Wesleyan on Friday April 26th to imagine queer and trans resistance to the prison industrial complex! If you are in town please join us, its free!

Getting ready to do some serious readin at the...

fortyday — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:13:04 -0400

Getting ready to do some serious readin at the incarceration/abolition conference.

cuz im a criminal queer

fortyday — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:44:18 -0400

cuz im a criminal queer

odofemi: I love that trans women have, in recent years, really banded together online and in print...

fortyday — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:11:48 -0400

odofemi:

I love that trans women have, in recent years, really banded together online and in print to name our specific issues and advocate for ourselves. However, I’ve noticed a very conspicuous absence of sex workers’ voices among those finding/creating representation. Little analysis is given to sex work. Even those trans women who are actively involved that I know are sex workers, rarely seem to mention this.

One of the things I’ve come up against again and again in trans communities, both online and in person, is stigma around sex work. The only acceptable sex work is through “queer porn,” which lately has become overrun by people with University degrees and tumblr accounts wanting to “create representation” — a topic for a whole other day. People don’t want to talk about sex workers, particularly street sex workers, unless we’re talking about them/us as being dead, like when we talk about TDOR.

Most of the things the trans community has today were created by sex workers. In Canada, for example, the first multiservice trans project run by trans people was created by sex workers (specifically Mirha-Soleil Ross) after the murders of sex workers (Deanna Wilkinson, Shawna Jr Keegan, and Brenda Ludgate), which went on to, over the years, be the first to push for and successfully gain access to women’s shelters for trans women in this country. And, of course, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, the patron saints of trans liberation struggles, from whose efforts were born the first trans radical activist organizations (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries).

Sex workers laid the foundations for not only all of transfeminist theory, but for a great deal of trans social services and arts culture, as well as for Anglophone queer culture generally. They created these positions, positions that they were forcibly and systematically pushed out of, replaced by a legion of mostly white trans men academics (and their cis femme partners — SIDE EYE like you have no idea).

Suffice it to say, I find it frustrating.

Thanks to @flipthescriptla for having me on the radio tonight!...

fortyday — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:30:34 -0400

Thanks to @flipthescriptla for having me on the radio tonight! Thanks for all the brilliant thinkers, movers, shakers and survivors who keep sharing their work with me and each other!

The Spirit Was...

The most powerful speech I’ve ever heard from Angela...

janetmock: I don’t think reina and I could laugh any bigger...

bklynboihood: SRLP’s 8th ANNUAL SMALL WORKS for BIG CHANGE the...

janetmock: “We are all victims of violence and the injustices and oppression of a faulty...

Help Support Egyptt! Please Signal Boost

Isis King snapped this photo of the Isis, Janet & me having...

sistahmamaqueen: if you’re a trans woman of color and you follow me, LET ME KNOW!!! i hella love...

Holding Space for Cemia Dove's death

photo by the esteemed Chris (Your Pants) Vargas. capturing my...

Tonight! Life Chances: HIV Criminalization and Trans Politics

yes honey, and i’m gonna burn your house down!

Giving my springtime warm weather gender dysphoria a run for its...

getting excited 4 the best art event of the year! May 18th //...

8th ANNUAL SMALL WORKS for BIG CHANGE!

Venue: Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square S., NYC *Wheelchair accessible*

Friday at Rutgers: Trans Politics Scholarship & Strategies Conference!

So excited about… Life Chances: HIV Criminalization and...

Life Chances: HIV Criminalization and Trans Politics

IN CONVERSATION WITH CHE GOSSETT, DEAN SPADE, AND SEAN STRUB

Save The Date! I’ll be joining my Captive Genders editor...

Getting ready to do some serious readin at the...

cuz im a criminal queer

odofemi: I love that trans women have, in recent years, really banded together online and in print...

Thanks to @flipthescriptla for having me on the radio tonight!...

Venue: Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square S., NYC Wheelchair accessible