“In New Orleans, members of the LGBTQ+ community mourned the loss of Penny Proud, a 22-year-ol
“In New Orleans, members of the LGBTQ+ community mourned the loss of Penny Proud, a 22-year-old trans woman who became the fifth trans woman of color killed in 2015 when she was found murdered in February. Proud’s death was subsequently all but erased from local coverage, and when it was covered, she was repeatedly misgendered. Despite the lack of local outrage in mainstream sources over Proud’s death, young, queer and trans* organizers around the city worked hard to ensure that Penny’s life was remembered. After her death, leaders from BreakOUT!, an organization that works to end the criminalization of LGBTQ+ youth of color in New Orleans, stepped in to make sure their sister would not be forgotten and organized a rally in her honor. They took to the streets, making a powerful demand that we not only honor trans* people in death, but honor them while they are still alive. On May 20th of this year, the same rally call was made again when organizations from all over the city—led by BYP100 and including Women With A Vision (WWAV), BreakOUT! and about a dozen total local partners—organized a day of action in solidarity with a national campaign called #SayHerName. The #SayHerName campaign highlighted the erasure of the violence that happens to Black women in mainstream understandings of state and structural violence and was hosted locally at the site of Proud’s murder.”(from “#BlackTransLivesMatter: Remembrance, Resilience, and Resistance”) -- source link
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