Thursday, May 31, 2018
#SheWillBe Celebrating Girls for Gender Equity's 15th Anniversary Gala
Girls for Gender Equity's 15th Anniversary Gala
Thursday, August 4, 2016
VIDEO: Trans Icon Donna Personna "Betrayed, Disappointed" by SF City Whitewashing Compton Cafeteria Riots
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf8Mzu6LbxA
On July 16th, directly following the Tenderloin Museum's One Year Anniversary celebration, I interviewed trans pioneer and artist Donna Personna (she was in SF during Compton Cafeteria Riots) about San Francisco city's unbelievable whitewashing of Compton Cafeteria Riot's legacy.
During the recent post-Trans March ceremony on June 24, 2016 the city renamed the intersection of Turk and Taylor 'Gene Compton Cafeteria Way' instead of 'Compton Cafeteria Riots Way' as Donna and others voted on, and what the community assumed it was being renamed as.
So not only has 'Riots' been whitewashed out, the name of an accomplice of police brutality has been snuck in. Gene Compton, the cafeteria owner who conspired with the violent law enforcement, should not be honored, the people's resistance against transphobia, homophobia and racist and sexist state violence should be.
#DropTheGene #DropTheG #DropPoliceBrutality
VIDEO: Trans Icon Donna Personna "Betrayed, Disappointed" by SF City Whitewashing Compton Cafeteria Riots
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf8Mzu6LbxA
On July 16th, directly following the Tenderloin Museum's One Year Anniversary celebration, I interviewed trans pioneer and artist Donna Personna (she was in SF during Compton Cafeteria Riots) about San Francisco city's unbelievable whitewashing of Compton Cafeteria Riot's legacy.
During the recent post-Trans March ceremony on June 24, 2016 the city renamed the intersection of Turk and Taylor 'Gene Compton Cafeteria Way' instead of 'Compton Cafeteria Riots Way' as Donna and others voted on, and what the community assumed it was being renamed as.
So not only has 'Riots' been whitewashed out, the name of an accomplice of police brutality has been snuck in. Gene Compton, the cafeteria owner who conspired with the violent law enforcement, should not be honored, the people's resistance against transphobia, homophobia and racist and sexist state violence should be.
#DropTheGene #DropTheG #DropPoliceBrutality
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Empire State Pride Agenda To Close Despite GENDA Bill Not Being Passed To Protect Trans* New Yorkers
BREAKING: wtf? (Though not surprised). LGB New Yorkers get
gay marriage perks and now they want to close down ESPA? What about GENDA, the
bill to give trans* New Yorkers anti-discrimination rights - it has yet to be
passed. Yes, I was there when the Governor said a few words about trans*
rights, but he never actually said 'GENDA'. Sigh. And people wonder why
non-token trans toms have little to no faith in white Gay, Inc.
"handling" our affairs. It's time we as trans* New Yorkers take a
stand for ourselves and stop letting LGB Non-Profit Inc manhandle and
misrepresent our movement
ESPA's Press Release:
http://prideagenda.org/news/2015-12-12-empire-state-pride-agenda-announces-plans-conclude-major-operations-2016Thursday, November 12, 2015
LAPD’s Public Relations Dept. Seeks to Unethically Co-opt Trans Day of Remembrance
Nov. 20th is
the annual Trans Day of Remembrance where we honor the lives of transsexual and
transgender women and men who lost their lives due to male violence,
transphobic bigotry, state violence/police brutality and/or domestic violence,
most of whom are trans women of color.
In a
flagrant disregard for this sacred memorial, the LAPD has announced a
distasteful public relations campaign where they plan to dishonorably co-opt our
community’s annual ritual into the corrupt law enforcement establishment by
unbelievably manufacturing a “LAPD Hosts the Transgender Walk of Remembrance”
stunt to be carried out on November 19th.
Needless to say the majority of L.A. trans
leaders, anti-police brutality activists and social justice advocates are
rightfully appalled. More importantly, people who have had trans family members
and close friends tragically murdered are deeply offended or even traumatized
that for what is in essence a ‘funeral’ is being inappropriately used as a PR
gimmick by the marketing department of the LAPD – especially when the male
brutality and state violence many police officers in L.A. are guilty of is
equal to the male brutality and state violence which has cost countless Black
and Latina transsexual or transgender women their lives.
The way the
LAPD seeks to use our dead as an opportunity to clean up their public image is
not only unethical – it is an act of violence due to the pain it’s inflicting
on so many who have lost loved ones due to both police brutality or transphobic
hate crimes.
Being an "ally" does not mean distastefully hijacking a funeral of which you're not invited - it means asking the community what THEY want and need and act accordingly
What
actually would make sense would be if the LAPD did a march to honor all the
unarmed women and men killed by law enforcement, not only would this be a way to
show the residents of Los Angeles their compassion for the loss of human life
at the hands of police officers – it wouldn’t be infringing on an already
established ritual of mourning without the stakeholder’s (the local trans
community and the families of deceased trans women) consent.
Is it too much to ask that the LAPD not use the loved ones we have as props in some disingenuous political campaign?
Being an "ally" does not mean distastefully hijacking a funeral of which you're not invited - it means asking the community what THEY want and need and act accordingly
Is it too much to ask that the LAPD not use the loved ones we have as props in some disingenuous political campaign?
#NotYourProp
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