As a former Louisville resident I've been keeping up with WFPL-FM's latest show Strange Fruit, hosted by Niece and Nephew. (AKA Dr. Kaila Story and Jaison Gardner to the rest of y'all).They were discussing on this latest show their experience of attending the local Louisville TDOR, noting that the names of the people being memorialized were Black and Latina, but having an event that was overwhelmingly white.
All thirteen of the US transwomen killed in the November 2011 to November 2012 period that we tracked for TDOR were Black or Latina.
So guess who they called to discuss the nature of race and class in the trans community and who was happy to discuss it, especially in the wake of my own not so pleasant experience at this year's Houston TDOR?
Yep, the podcast is up for the latest edition of Strange Fruit and y'all can hear it by clicking on this link.
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