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Black Trans Women Are Being Killed. Could Paying Them Help Stop This?
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YES! Magazine - Social Justice
Jarreau says there are unique ways that trans women of color, and specifically Black trans women, are disenfranchised.
“We [Black trans women] sit at the intersection of anti-Blackness and transmisogyny,” Jarreau says.
Devin Lowe launched the Black Trans Travel Fund in June 2019 to provide Black trans women with funding to pay for safer ride-share services through Lyft or Uber.
“No one is free until Black trans women are free and safe.”“Trans women and femmes of color are still fighting for the right to live.”Lowe started the project after becoming frustrated with the lack of response to the killings of Black trans women across the country.
“There are often times that trans women of color, especially Black trans women, face violence, and in a lot of cases that violence is bred through toxic masculinity and it also comes from their partners,” she says.
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