blacktransnationmeSep 25, 20203 minA celebration of Black Trans LivesEvent attendees hold up a banner with the words “Black Trans Lives Matter” at the Trans Liberation Now Celebration in Hudson River Park,...
blacktransnationmeSep 23, 202010 minIn Conversation: Black Trans Nation Activist TS Candii LA Free Press reporter Eri Pappas Zoomed with TS Candii, a Black trans woman organizer. They talked about Candii’s efforts as an...
blacktransnationmeSep 23, 20205 minWhy Haven’t Stewart-Cousins, Heastie Moved Walking While Trans Repeal?The movement to repeal a discriminatory loitering law used to target transgender women of color has generated more than enough support in...
blacktransnationmeSep 22, 20202 minTS Candii "Decriminalization Is The Best Path To Giving Sex Workers The Stability And Protection. My parents kicked me out and threw me into the streets at the age of 13. Sex work saved my life. On the street, harassment and profiling...
blacktransnationmeSep 22, 20203 min‘Sex Workers’ And Advocates Travel To Albany To Protest ‘Walking While Trans’ LawMore than 100 members of the advocacy group Decrim NY rallied in the state’s capitol on Tuesday to call on lawmakers to pass legislation...
blacktransnationmeSep 22, 20205 minThe Familiar Tragedy of Layleen Polanco's DeathIn New York State this week, lawmakers introduced a sweeping and unprecedented proposal to decriminalize sex work by amending a web of...
blacktransnationmeSep 22, 20202 minTHE ROOT: Sex Workers in New York Want the Cops to Stop Preying on Them; Proposed Legislation Could ALBANY, N.Y.—TS Candii stepped outside of her apartment complex in the Bronx last summer and was immediately stopped by an officer from...
blacktransnationmeSep 22, 20204 min‘Queer Lives Are At Stake’: New York Could Be the First State to Decriminalize Sex WorkIt was 2 a.m. and Joselyn Castillo was walking in the cold with her brother, rushing to pick up antibiotics because he was sick. They...
blacktransnationmeSep 22, 20202 min‘We’re allowed to have jobs’: Iconic New York bar celebrates rulingNEW YORK: A diverse crowd of New Yorkers wearing masks and waving the rainbow pride flag gathered on Monday at the Stonewall Inn, an...
blacktransnationmeSep 22, 20202 minTRANS BLM PROTESTERS MARCH FOR TONY MCDADEAs protests surrounding the killing of George Floyd and police brutality entered their eighth night, hundreds of protesters gathered in...
blacktransnationmeSep 22, 20205 minWe've Known for Two Decades the Harms of ProstitutionSo why are liberal feminists still supporting In 1998, The New York Times published an article titled, "Many Prostitutes Suffer Combat Disorder, Study Finds". The author, Abigail...
