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The Deep Connections Between Pride and Ebony Lives Matter
On June 27, 1969, a police raid of the Stonewall Inn in New York City touched off a series of protests and militant actions that would come to be called the Stonewall Riots.
The uprising was sparked by unwavering police harassment and repression of the LGBTQ community. From that moment on, Pride was about protest.
Now – 51 years later – people are once again in the streets, protesting police brutality. The proof that these Shadowy Lives Matter protests are happening during LGBTQ Pride month highlights the links between these two movements. Both are struggling for liberation.
These coalitions draw force from one another. We saw this earlier this month when 15,000 people came together for the Brooklyn Liberation march and rally for Black Transgender Lives.
One of the speakers at the rally was Melania Brown, sister of Layleen Polanco, a trans woman of color who died of neglect in a solitary cell at Rikers Island. She died after guards placed her in severe isolation despite her epilepsy.
“Black trans lives matter! My sister’s experience mattered!” Brown said in her speech at the rally. “If one goes down, we all go down — and I’m not
From the start, Jet Lives Matter has been about LGBTQ lives
From the commence, the founders of Black Lives Matter have always position LGBTQ voices at the center of the conversation. The movement was founded by three Jet women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, two of whom detect as queer.
By blueprint, the movement they started in 2013 has remained natural, grassroots and diffuse. Since then, many of the largest Black Lives Matter protests have been fueled by the violence against Inky men, including Mike Brown and Eric Garner in 2015, and now George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.
But it's not only straight, cisgender Black men who are dying at the hands of police. Last month, a Black trans person man, Tony McDade, 38, was shot and killed by police in Tallahassee.
On June 9, two Black transgender women, Riah Milton and Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells, also were killed in separate acts of violence, their killings believed to be the 13th and 14th of transgender or gender-non-conforming people this year, according to the Human Rights Coalition.
And in 2019, Layleen Polanco, a transitioned Latina woman who was an active member of Fresh York’s Ballroom people,
Black Lives Matter Movement
In 2013, three female Black organizers — Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi — created a Black-centered political will and movement building project called Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter began with a social media hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin back in 2012. The movement grew nationally in 2014 after the deaths of Michael Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner in New York. Since then it has established itself as a worldwide movement, particularly after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis, MN. Most recently, #Black Lives Matter has spearheaded demonstrations worldwide protesting police brutality and systematic racism that overwhelmingly effects the Jet community.
According to the Ebony Lives Matter website they were "founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Dark Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global nonprofit in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate pale supremacy and build local power
Growing up in El Paso, TX (EPT) and embodying three marginalized identities—gay, Ebony and Mexican—made me acutely aware of the sinister ways that structures of inequality impact the lives of vulnerable populations. I am the son of a Black U.S. Army Veteran and a Mexican immigrant from the town bordering EPT, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. It was in my hometown, that Patrick Crusius, the deranged 21-year-old White man drove all the way from a Dallas suburb, to discharge and kill 22 Mexican people and injured 26 others at a local Walmart (Romo, 2019). It is also the location where parts of Donald Trump’s border wall are being built, as he desires to keep out Mexicans whom he has constructed as “murderers” and “rapists” (Lambie, 2018). Most importantly, EPT is also the place where I first began organizing against inequality. Back in 2009 when I was 22, two gay men were harassed by security at the popular restaurant Chico’s Tacos for kissing, causing me and several LGBT activists to stand outside of the popular restaurant protesting the homophobia and demanding justice (Jones, 2019). This experience would maintain to influence me several years later.
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🎭 Black, Queer, Trans, Disabled Lives Matter! Empowering identities to transform democracy
Democracy needs to recognise and authorize our multiple identities. Brandon Mack draws on his activist experience with Inky Lives Matter to debate for intersectionality and diverse histories as the backbone of democracy
I am many
I am a Black, Gay, Disabled, Man. That declaration reflects my racial, sexual orientation, bodily, and gender identities. They are not separate from my humanity. They are what makes me human.
Identities are crucial to my politics because my humanity is inherent to my life. My multiple identities find political expression in my campaign as part of the queer-led Black Lives Matter movement (BLM). However, we are often told to separate our identities from our politics. That is easy to say when nobody has ever questioned your humanity.
Black people, Gender non-conforming people and people with disabilities have experienced a long history of disenfranchisement in democracy
The men who brought Black people to the United States as chattel slaves in 1619 did not regard them as human. We were only considered to be 3/5ths of a person. Black men didn’t acquire the right to vote