the article is a little vapid but well worth reading for Miss Major’s words.
on assimilation:
“[…I]f you want to do something different and be the best person that you can be, why would you want to mimic or copy people who absolutely hate and abhor your very existence? And who, if they would have gotten the chance, would have eradicated you years ago. But you want to copy them and live like they live and have a little house and adopt a little black child and live this life that you really haven’t earned, or they don’t feel are entitled to. And then to turn your head and criticize and ruin and step on someone else’s life, which is usually my community. That’s my fear.”
on Stonewall:
“For what good it did my trans girls, it might as well have not happened.”
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Star: I am an independent artist who has been living in and out of the San Francisco Bay for the past 7 years. I make music under the moniker Ah-Mer-Ah-Su and I create visual and other perfomance based art as Star Amerasu. My work is based around living my life and striving to make the best of things, despite living in a hetero-patriarchal society that has been built to undermine the existence of queer black and brown bodies.
I started my medical transition at 19 years old. I moved myself from Austin,TX to San Francisco to access some of the best trans healthcare services available. I underwent Sexual Reassignment Surgery at 21 which greatly helped my gender dysphoria. One of the hardest things I will admit is that while my body feels so much more aligned. I still experience dysphoria around the shape of my face.
I have the privilege of being in the San Francisco Bay, and having medical insurance that will actually pay for part of my surgery. Making what would normally be an almost impossible amount of money to pay, much smaller.
I have a tentative surgery date Scheduled for August 10th and have been put on a cancellation list which means I could get called in to have surgery as early as April or May.
I’m raising money to pay for my miscellaneous medical expenses, the procedures that aren’t covered, and my rent for the month of surgery and the month after.
I’m looking to raise this money by May 1st in order to pay all the fees I have before surgery, and If by chance I get called in to have surgery early I will be able too have this life affirming procedure.
“A Tokyo municipal official, the first openly transgender person to seek or win elected office in Japan. She was elected in April 2003. Kamikawa, then a 35-year-old writer, submitted her election application papers with a blank space for “sex.”
She won a four-year term as an independent under huge media attention, placing sixth of 72 candidates running for 52 seats in the Setagaya ward assembly, the most populous district in Tokyo. Despite an announcement that the government would continue to consider her male officially, she stated that she would work as a woman. Her platform was to improve rights for women, children, the elderly, the handicapped, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
In April 2007, she was re-elected to her second term, placing second of 71 candidates running for 52 in the same ward assembly. She is the only openly transgender official in Japan at this point.” xx
Ai Haruna (はるな愛)
Ai Haruna is a singer, actress, and businesswoman. Growing up she experienced a lot of pain and hardship due to the ignorance of her parents and Japanese society as a whole. However, this didn’t stop her from living out her childhood dream of becoming an idol and tv-personality. xx
Kayo Satoh (佐藤かよ)
She is a fashion model and particularly famous in the fighting game community. She was born in Nagoya and after she graduated middle school she ran away from home because of the pain she experienced in a society that didn’t understand her. That night, she went to her childhood friend’s house, who lent her clothes that suited her. She then worked at a convenience store, and 4 years later she got a job as a clerk at a women’s clothing store. Soon after, she was scouted by a modeling agency which she still works for. x
“a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, as well as being an author and actress. She is most recognised for her song ‘Tomodachi no Uta’, which was used as the theme song for the drama Watashi ga Watashi de Aru Tame ni (in which she also appeared as an actress). She’s also known for being one of the few openly [transgender] celebrities in Japan, having been [assigned male at birth], and has spoken of the struggles she underwent with issues of identity before transitioning. In 2006, she signed to popular record label avex trax, and in 2010 moved to Yamaha Music Communications.” xx
*black and brown trans women/trans fems who were repeatedly homeless, were sex workers, and who supported their sisters and fought against the cis white middle-class normalizing of queerness
Nice try but WRONG!!! Gay people and straight people are the reason why gay rights exist, dumbass. Without the help straight people, we wouldn’t have gay rights.
Why?
Because heterosexual are the overwhelming population while there’s just a handful of gays.
Look at Saudi Arabia or Jamaica, gay rights will never exist there because heterosexual don’t want that.
I, for one, thank the cis white people for giving me my rights because I would probably be burned alive like in Uganda or hide my sexuality like in the Middle East
So please shut the fuck up and stop virtue signaling
okay anyways trans women, especially trans women of color, are the reason we’ve got gay rights so take it to ur grave!
alder-knight 