MLK Day Replay: A New Black Trans Civil Rights Agenda
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this episode replay from 2022, Imara discusses how the idea of Black civil rights has been reduced to the idea of changes in specific laws. But the civil rights movement also included the ideas of what we now call Black liberation: a specific revisioning of what our society should look like steeped in racial justice. Consequently we can see that the civil rights movement never totally succeeded and has a tremendous amount of unfinished business that we live out every single day.
That’s why we wanted to talk with Black trans leaders about what a new agenda for Black civil rights should look like. Our first guest, Qween Jean, is the founder of Black Trans Liberation. She’s an activist and artist who’s critical work centers Black trans people in the fight for racial equity. Then Imara talks to Kayla Gore, the co-founder of My Sistah’s House, a fully fledged aid and advocate organization that started as an emergency shelter with 8 beds.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey fam, it's me, Amara Jones. |
| 0:11.4 | Happy 2023. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the TransLash podcast where we tell trans stories, the Save Trans Lives. |
| 0:17.6 | We all hope that you had a wonderful holiday break and a terrific beginning to |
| 0:21.9 | 2023. It's going to be a crazy year, but we will all get through it and be here together and |
| 0:29.8 | with each other. Well, we're starting off this year, of course, on MLK Day. With this particular holiday, we often like to reflect on the |
| 0:42.3 | teachings of that amazing, incredible revolutionary and civil rights icon Reverend Dr. Martin Luther |
| 0:48.5 | King. And what all of that means to us today? What are the lessons and the insights that are relevant to us, |
| 0:56.6 | our movement, and our country, and this particular time? And that's why we thought today was |
| 1:01.9 | a terrific time to replay our 2022 episode entitled A New Black Trans Civil Rights Agenda, |
| 1:09.4 | where I talked to two incredible leaders about what the fight |
| 1:13.9 | for Black rights and Black trans rights in this particular moment looks like. |
| 1:19.3 | First, we speak to Queen Jean, founder of Black Trans Liberation. |
| 1:23.9 | Liberation is a daily affirmation. |
| 1:34.3 | It is a declaration to the rest of the world that we are on a mission for our freedom. Next, we speak to Kayla Gore, co-founder of my sister's house. |
| 1:38.3 | A lot of organizations, a lot of individuals, they want to continue the work until they can say, oh, we've been doing this 400 years. |
| 1:47.1 | And that's not my plan. |
| 1:49.5 | My plan is not to do this for 400 years. |
| 1:52.1 | My plan is to build up my community to a point where they are sufficient enough to stand on their own. |
| 1:58.0 | I'm so excited to share these powerful visions of Black Trans Liberation with you, |
| 2:02.6 | but first, let's celebrate as we always do, with some trans joy. |
| 2:06.6 | A vital piece of liberation is physical safety. |
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