A Trans Woman of Color Died After She Was Forced to Work With Covid
A memorial for Gómez outside of the Burger King where she worked. Employees at the Pico Blvd. Burger King in Santa Monica, California went on strike this week after Angela Martinez Gómez, a transgender woman, died from COVID-19. Management refused to let her leave work even after she showed numerous symptoms and her employers later […]
A Guide to The First Ever Non-Binary Awareness Week
July 14th is the eighth annual International Non-Binary people’s day and the week of July 12-July 18, 2020 is the first ever Non-Binary Awareness Week. What does it mean to be Non-Binary? The Non-Binary (Enby) title means different things to different people. The term describes someone who does not exclusively identify as either a woman […]
Halle Berry Will No Longer Play a Trans Man
On Saturday, Halle Berry shared that she was preparing to play the role of a transgender man in an interview on Instagram Live hosted by a Santa Barbara hair stylist, Christin Brown. After her initial announcement and the ensuing backlash, she announced yesterday that she would pull out of the role. The fact that she […]
Three Black Trans Women Were Murdered And One Went Missing Over July Fourth Weekend
This July Fourth weekend, three Black Trans women were murdered and one went missing. Draya McCarty and Shaki Peters, two Black trans women, were found dead near Baton Rouge in what appeared to be two separate incidents. A third woman, Bree Black, was found shot to death on Pompano Beach in Florida. Meanwhile, Dawn Manson […]
Who is Merci Mack?
Merci Mack was a 22-year-old Black transgender woman who was found fatally shot in Dallas on June 30th and became the seventeenth trans person killed in the United States in 2020. Mack was also the fourth Black transgender woman to be murdered during Pride month. on april 9th, #MerciMack posted this picture on facebook to […]
Who is Tatiana Hall?
This is a developing story. This post will be updated as more information becomes available. Tatiana Hall was one of the three Black trans women murdered in the past week, along with Brayla Stone and Merci Mack. Very little has been reported on the murder of the 21-year-old from Irvington, New Jersey, but posts of […]
