{"id":927,"date":"2016-04-27T10:54:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T09:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/?p=927"},"modified":"2017-04-18T09:37:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T08:37:04","slug":"black-trans-and-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/black-trans-and-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"black, trans and proud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elevated as a \u201cmodel\u201d cause, it is naturally that the communities among the most minor and the most abused put a name on their claims.And so the Black Trans Live Movement was born. Numbers are eloquent. In January 2015, no less than four transgender black women were attacked, as they dared to assert themselves as such, and for the four of them, death won.<\/p>\n

The transidentity complex <\/b><\/h2>\n

\"Marsha<\/p>\n

Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992), homosexual drag-queen and sex worker, was a pioneer in the queer struggle in the US.<\/h6>\n

Transgenders and transexuals aren\u2019t to be mistaken. Transgenders reject totally or partially their \u201cnative\u201d sexual identity, without necessarly going through \u00a0an operation. On the contrary, transexuals surgecally change their identity. In the end, both are ostracised. Besides, the american website advocate, that claim to be the voice of the gay and trans community, explains that the word \u201cintersectionality\u201d was created by Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, a law teacher of the California University of Los Angeles in \u00a01989. This word is used in sociology and in politics science to describe a situation in which people concurrently suffer from diffrent forms of societal domination.<\/p>\n

It is just a way of showing how multiple identities – whether sexual, gendered, racial, or class – interfere with each other every day, in an stubborn struggle for justice. The website also gives the floor to Master ; one of the participant of the round-table meeting, \u201cbeeing queer\/trans and black nowadays\u201d, and who describe it as a \u201cwonderful exemple of structure for an inter-segment approach. Placing the experience of women and trans at the center of our concerns has always been a major objective of Black Lives Matter, and our main challenge strategy relies on using an intersectional approach<\/em>\u201d.
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Laverne Cox, as a media icon<\/b><\/h2>\n

This is Netflix\u2019s daring bet, the platform that propose movies and series in a coutinuous flow on the Internet. In the tvshow \u201cOrange is the new black\u201d Laverne Cox, transexual in life, plays the part of Sophia Burset, one of Lichfiel\u2019s inmates. Cat among the pigeons in the world of popular entertainment, it is the starting point of a quick media ascent and an obvious exposure of the black transgender community.<\/p>\n

In our ultraconnected world, social medias played a major role in the consideration of the, maybe late, notoriety of this community. For her part, Laverne Cox launched the hashtag #transisbeautiful and breathed a truly renewal in the afro-queer minority representativity issue. On june 9th 2014, a little revolution was born: Laverne Cox appeared on the \u201cTime\u201d\u2019s cover. The tittle? : \u201cthe transgender tipping point: the America\u2019s next civil right frontier\u201d. Right after, the actress was nominated to the Emmy\u2019s Awards. Not too bad!<\/p>\n

\"Laverne<\/p>\n

Laverne Cox, heroine of the series “Orange is the New Black” on the front page of the Time Magazine in june 2014.<\/h6>\n

Moreover, it could be necessary to mention other actors who actively participate in the recognition of the black trans live movement by the general public, as for instance:<\/p>\n