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Today’s strike march passing Morrison Hall on the way to the School of Education!
This is the part about being transgender that can be very frustrating.
Dear Cis People,
I don’t want to be you.
Surprised?
An(other) instance of how the crime this teen committed was walking while Black. Being while Black and male in our effed upped social system that institutionalizes racism and advances a necropolitics of disciplining/punishing the “surplus” bodies of Black men constructed as inherently violent. It is not irrelevant that the man who executed Trayvon Martin is so committed to the so-called “criminal justice” system of which he is a student. I plan to write more about that soon.
The local police don’t know yet if walking while Black constitutes an offense against someone holding a gun. Three weeks after Trayvon’s death. They are still figuring it out.
We vociferously “protect” some people’s “right to own a gun” while completely ignoring a young man’s right to walk and move his body freely in (a white) space. I hate guns and I effing hate racism. Justice for Trayvon now.
Ubangi Club, Harlem 1934-37 by Climbing Kilimanjaro on Flickr.
These historic photos of Black gay male kinship and queer bonds are absolutely gorgeous! What a painstaking effort to put together this fantastic collection from the 19th & 20th centuries.