privileged-person:[Shaadi @tgirlinterruptd tweets:The thing about street harassment for a Black tran
privileged-person:[Shaadi @tgirlinterruptd tweets:The thing about street harassment for a Black trans woman though?There is added danger of transmisogyny/phobia. Initially or after discoveryThere is literally no win for us as trans women. We ignore? Violence. We entertain nicely& they discover? Violence. ‘We were tricking them!’And My experience is a little different than some1 not passing as Cis while in public space. For others street harassment is even scarierBecause for black women being read as trans the interaction begins&ends w/overt violence thats seen as ‘Deserved.’ Other women support it…&Yes its street harassment because its a gendered violence that is shaped by dialogues of misogyny & policing of womens body in public spaceWhen street harassment is compounded by transmisogyny we have harassment by men who think our bodies exist to trick them into pleasureOr you have men who feel entitled to our bodies as objects of fetish to which they are entitled. Add antiblk misogyny & how dare we declineThere’s added danger in a blk trans woman turning down advances via street harassment bcause ‘how dare we?’ That agency damages male egoFor Black trans women street harassment is yet another form of gender violence added to the daily street assault of being visibly trans…When men’s eyes collectively turn on me as a Blk Trans Woman Im terrified. There’s no justice for what will occur in that space of male gazeWomen’s bodies are always seen as existing for male enticement.I bcome a special kind of criminal.Enticing men for corruption of masculinity]transwomanism:Black Trans Women & Street Harassment:Conversations on Street Harassment often exclude Black Trans Women because we don’t view them as women& we see their bodies as inherently deserving of violence. We tend to see street harassment of trans women, not as gender based systematic violence, but as non-existent or inexplainable & unavoidable tragedy.https://storify.com/TGirlInterruptd/black-trans-women-and-street-harassment -- source link