There's an outcast in everybody's life and I am her
(I am her)
There's a shadow in everybody's front door and I am her
(I am her)
There's a dark cloud in everybody's sunlight and I am her
(I am her)
Oh you know I am her
Dans le cadre de la Journée de Visibilité #Trans le 31 mars prochain, la Maison Arc-En-Ciel de #Namur organisera une expo qui se tiendra autour de cette date (à préciser).
Le 23 septembre 2020, Doona, jeune femme trans de 19 ans, disparaissait sous le poids de la transphobie de la société.
Ému par son histoire tragique, Gaël, artiste trans namurois, décida de ne plus attendre que les femmes et personnes trans féminines meurent pour les dessiner. Il proposa alors à toutes les personnes qui lui en faisaient la demande sur Twitter de dessiner leur portrait et de les publier au fur et à mesure.
Il aimerait aujourd'hui retrouver ces personnes pour leur demander l'autorisation d'exposer leur portrait à la Maison Arc-en-Ciel de Namur, mais le compte qu'il avait utilisé à l'époque s'est fait bannir, ce qui le prive d'accès aux messages échangés avec ces personnes. Si vous avez été dessinée pendant cette période (fin 2020), faites-moi signe et je transmettrai le message
Le reboost redonne la pêche à toutes les personnes queer de votre région.
The Illinois Green Party recently interviewed Lierre Keith, the ecofascist TERF who founded DGR & WoLF. They claim to support trans rights but then host a TERF who’s working with Christian nationalists to take away our rights and healthcare and totally eliminate us from society. A lot of Green Party members also signed onto an open letter defending another TERF, Ann Menasche. It sure looks like the Green Party has a TERF problem (maybe an ecofascism problem too?). You want to fight for “social justice”, get the fucking TERFs out!
Tweet by Illinois Green Party reads The Illinois Green Party supports to enforce equal protection and equal rights for gender and sexual minorities (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Non-binary, and gender non-conforming). #TransDayOfVisibility#TDOV#TransRightsAreHumanRights end text image of Illinois Green Party logo, a flower with green petals inside of another flower with green petals. The circle in the center is light blue, light pink and white to represent the trans pride flag.
On this #TransDayOfVisibility, I'm thinking about all the #trans people who were visible before I came out. Being visible helped me so much. It showed me what is possible.
I'm also reflecting on many of the anti-trans laws being enacted in many states. Don't-Say-Gay bills and book bans are meant to prevent trans and #lgbt visibility; they're meant to keep kids ashamed of who they are.
Kids these days have the chance to grow up with so many #queer and trans people to look up to - from politicians like Danica Roem and Sarah McBride to entertainers like Elliot Page, Laverne Cox, and Kim Petras to all the queer and trans people who aren't famous and just living great lives.
These laws are meant to make being queer and trans feel invisible and dangerous.
On this #tdov, I'm looking forward to a better, more visible, safer world 🏳️⚧️
For my contribution to #TransDayOfVisibility, I once wrote a big, emotional blog post about the unique suckitude of being #transmasc. I sat on it a bit and realized that it could basically be summarized in two charts.
I'm pretty visibly trans all the time, thanks to my wardrobe choices and my hairstyle. Oh, and my choice to live as a public trans person all the time, so trans kids know they can do it in this city, and cis people know we're already here, and have been here for many years.
I want to take a moment and shout out my #TransMasc and #Nonbinary people too - too often, while we are hypervisible as trans women, they are invisible as trans men and nonbinary people. Cis people reading along, remember that transness comes in several flavours, and they're all valid and brilliant and wonderful.
Cis people...if you see a trans person being harassed, step into that if you're safe to. Walk confidently to the trans person, say "Hi, remember me? We met last week at that work function." Or some similar pattern of words that makes it clear you know who the person is, and yet you're new enough to maybe need a reminder on name.
Just seeing a cis ally step in will help a lot, both with being the trans person under attack, and with deterring the bullies from continuing. You can ask, for instance, "Sorry, did I interrupt a conversation?"
Sound risky? I know. But imagine you're the trans person facing it without an ally. Feel much, much riskier? Yeah.
We need you, right now. We need to know you have our backs, in real life, even when it's risky for you some. It's a risky time. It's accomplice time.