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Monica Roberts August 13, 2008
It's time.
I'm envious of the fact that our Asian and Pacific Rim transsisters just formed an organization to do the advocacy and informational dissemination for transpeople across that region.
I would love to see the same thing happen for African descended transpeople, and I'm wondering out loud what's holding us back from doing so?
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We have medical-health care issues. We have people that feel isolated, powerless and alone. We have self esteem and pride issues that must be addressed.
But addressing those issues and getting to the point where we can solve them will take concentrated teamwork and effort from all of us across the country.
Yes, it will be difficult. There will be disagreements on just how we go about doing it. But do it we must.
The status quo we've been muddling along with for decades is no longer acceptable. We must take charge of our destinies in this decade and not let others speak (or not speak) for the African descended trans community.
For that to happen, it's going to require hard solid thinking, short and long term strategic planning and sustained work it's going to take to make that happen,
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I would not only love to see better networking capability between African descended transpeople in our various communities come out of that, but also see some genuine friendship from from that as well.
A girl can dream can't she?
But what I would really like to see become a reality is the Black trans community having the same or better community infrastructure that our white sisters have, and do so by the end of the 2K1's.
And I know some of you would like to see that happen as well.
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