Visibility
My wife gave birth to our first child earlier this year, and I am over-the-moon in love with being a father to my baby boy. Along my parenthood journey, I’ve thought a lot about the life I want to help build for my son and the community I want him to grow up in. At […]
Monica Ellis vividly recalls her first impression of the Gateways Music Festival, a gathering of classical musicians of African descent, at the University of Rochester in upstate New York in 2019. Ellis, a bassoonist and founding member of the quintet Imani Winds, was no stranger to working in exclusively Black groups. But that hadn’t prepared […]
Keith Lee is embarking on amplifying Black-owned restaurants beyond his social media. The popular TikTok food critic has partnered with Pepsi Dig In to help discover top-notch dining establishments across the . . .
“A lot of times, especially in the neighborhoods that we live in, [Black-owned restaurants are] right down the street. We just don’t know about them,” Lee said to AfroTech in an interview. “It’s a lot of hole-in-the-wall spots and a lot of local mom-and-pop shops that it’s an ‘if you know, you know’ kind of […]
On Friday, people around the globe celebrated the International Day of Transgender Visibility and also were reminded of an ongoing struggle by LGBTQ communities for the right to exist. In Milwaukee, County Executive David Crowley signed a resolution making official the county’s opposition to the practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ citizens. Meanwhile, a delegation […]
MILWAUKEE — March 31 is known annually as International Transgender Day of Visibility. It’s a day to celebrate trans and non-binary people while also raising awareness of the discrimination facing the community worldwide. In the last nine months, at least three transgender women – Brazil Johnson, Regina Allen and now Cashay Henderson – have been […]
Celebrating history and community across generations Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Navy veteran and American trans woman Monica Helms created the bright, beautiful transgender Pride flag. She gave it three signature colors—light blue as the traditional color to represent baby boys, light pink to represent baby girls, and a white stripe in […]
CHICAGO — Local groups are preparing for Friday’s Transgender Day of Visibility, an international awareness day for trans and gender-nonconforming folks. Transgender Day of Visibility, created in 2010 by trans advocate Rachel Crandall, is celebrated every March 31 to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people and to draw attention to the discrimination, violence […]
Black Visibility Matters: The Inconvenient Truths of Bias and Erasure Tolerance.org Source link
In the past five years, transgender Texans have weathered debate over barring them from bathrooms, an ongoing epidemic of violence and murder and, now,
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