I’m a day late to this unfortunately but yesterday was the trans day of action – a rallying march organized by the Audre Lorde Project in New York City. This year’s day was the 11th annual and the press release from the Audre Lorde Project says the march is to:
lift up the leadership and resilience of Trans and Gender Non Conforming New Yorkers and continue the fight for social, economic, racial and gender justice.
Fighting for the rights and intersectionality of identities for the trans community is incredibly important. The mainstream queer community has gotten incredibly good at erasing the trans part of LGBT (particularly if you add race and class into that mix). From Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson being erased from queer history to mainstream organizations like the Human Rights Campaign constantly throwing gender identity and the trans community under the bus regarding legistation, erasure has been an unfortunate part of our community.
So days and events like Trans Day of Action are so important because it’s time that we as a society and as a queer community start to center the most marginalized communities and let them tell their own narratives. It’s also important that as a queer community, we also work on internationalist issues like racism, classism, ableism, and others and fight against the systems that continue to oppress so many.
#TDOA15 pic.twitter.com/nopZ2RYyrt
— Audre Lorde Project (@audrelorde) June 26, 2015
NYC Trans Day of Action. #TDOA15 #TransJustice @audrelorde https://t.co/FzUteAmiEV
— CPR Change the NYPD (@changethenypd) June 26, 2015
“Fuck your assimilation, we want our liberation” pic.twitter.com/aonRqMO7b5 — Audre Lorde Project (@audrelorde) June 26, 2015
“Fuck your assimilation! We want our liberation!”- #TDOA15 in #NYC! #TransDayOfAction #TransLivesMatter #LGBTQ pic.twitter.com/liXOiBF4tz — Ash J (@AshAgony) June 26, 2015
Trans people of color at the front! #TDOA15 pic.twitter.com/iYQxWnYD76
— Audre Lorde Project (@audrelorde) June 26, 2015
What a beautiful way to end #TransMarch! #SFPride #LoveWins #TDOA15 https://t.co/aaMFkdvExi
— Mia Tu Mutch (@miatumutch) June 27, 2015
Transgender People to March Against Discrimination in New York http://t.co/0DFotQpOIr #news
— chavez (@ChaviztaEu) June 26, 2015
loved the chant at Trans Day Of Action today: “its our history, don’t deny it! stonewall was a trans riot” #TDOA15 #trans
— Reina Gossett (@reinagossett) June 27, 2015
I was there and it was a great antidote to “respectability politics”. It is also liberating to be in a crowd of over a thousand trans folk, very powerful.
That’s so good to hear! I wish I could have gone because I’m surrounded by respectability politics right now. But alas, I’m on the west coast.
Thanks for sharing!❤