Hey what's up everyone, this is Martina Abrahams, and you're listening to you had me at Black.

Today you'll hear from Jasmine.

Jasmine moved to the Bay Area from the Bronx, New York in search of a safer environment for people who are both black and queer.

She quickly learned that while there are plenty of safe spaces for queer people in San Francisco or Oakland,

people of color were often left out or marginalized.

So she did something about it.

Today she brings us back to the very first party she threw, and how she overcame transphobia to keep pushing and keep partying.

Here's what happened.

I want you to breathe all this in.

And I got... This is you had me at Black, the podcast were Black millennials tell true life stories. Shh!

My story starts on Facebook.

There is this rapper Abdulale, who is queer and black,

and from Baltimore, who I was a big fan of.

So they had this really low budget video

with like a green screen background

like voging to the song called

Bange bitch. I saw that video I commented on it and he replied to one of my

comments and ever since that we were friends on Facebook.

Then I move out to the bay and I have like a huge social media presence and I guess Abduli observed that so I open my Facebook messages

and I see Abduli had messaged me and he's saying you know that he's coming out to Oakland he

sees that I'm out here and like really connected to the community and he wanted to

come out here.

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