Black Quote by Bob the Drag Queen

Black Trans Lives Matter, to me, is really different. I think it speaks most directly to the marginalization and disenfranchisement of trans people within…

— Alicia Garza

Many trans women of color come from poverty and are forced to live on the streets. Their families have shunned them, and their remaining…

— Sean Baker

Trans people have been repeatedly told that we don't have the right to live. And Black people have been told that by our slave…

— Dominique Jackson

There's still an immense amount of discrimination that happens against trans people.

— Alaska

I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Racism is a problem everywhere, especially in this country, but all over the world, and especially within queer space.

— Sasha Velour

Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most people who are cisgender - a word describing…

— Chelsea Manning

Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

— Janet Mock

“effort was made to select short pieces, quotes, and art that represent the diversity of trans communities. We have inevitably failed at this goal.…

— Laura Erickson-Schroth

As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities…

— Indya Moore

I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have…

— Judith Butler

There is no separation between the black community and the LGBT community. As a black, queer woman myself, I often have to assert, right,…

— Alicia Garza