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TGI JUSTICE and #BLACKLIVESMATTER
To our beloved comrades, supporters, friends and allies: Genderific greetings from the uprisings in the SF Bay Area! TGI Justice Project salutes the militant, focused, non-violent and popular actions in Ferguson and across the world rising up against policing and state violence while affirming that #BlackLivesMatter We are proud of TGI Justice Project’s participation in the response to police violence and the non-indictment of the murderers of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Our staff and members have been out in the streets, in coalition meetings, at actions, in each-one-teach-one conversations with people as we move through the world. We have been alongside other TGI people showing up to demonstrate that no business as usual will be tolerated, that this ends today. TGI Justice Project appreciates the consideration and solidarity being extended to TGI people who are putting their bodies into the action of resistance and survival; appreciates the care from community in police vans, the attention and unity as binary jail housing is enforced on protestors, the looking out for each other as tear gas is shot, and all the ways we are holding, loving and supporting one another in this struggle as we make sure no is left behind. Amidst the uprisings, we have endured the continued violence against trans women of color that was so present in 2014. Early in December, our siblings in the trans liberation struggle down in L.A. lost a wonderful community leader to gun violence. Rest In Power Deshawnda Sanchez. Days later, our community in Georgia had a sister torn from them when Keymori Shatoya Johnson was murdered. In this moment of anguish and anger, in a year of heightened violence against Black trans women and trans women of color, TGI Justice Project has been heartened and grounded by the truth that the fierce queer women’s leadership behind #BlackLivesMatter is building a movement that understands that Black Lives means all Black Lives: Black Trans Lives, Black Women’s Lives, Black Queer Lives, Black Poor Lives, Black People-with-Disabilities’ Lives, Black Survivors’ Lives. While policing and criminalization disproportionately affect the Black Trans community, it is the entire reach of our family that is endangered by the devaluing of Black and Brown lives. TGI Justice Project celebrates this moment as a movement moment, a time when we are part of a collective process of changing the course of everyone’s lives by strategically focusing on changing the conditions of Black life in this country. We are here among and with you all in the Bay Area and across the country as we turn it all the way up. We at TGI Justice Project believe that we will win! For 2015, we say onward! #TransPeopleInTheStruggle heart full of #PeoplePower & #Solidarity as we #ShutItDown #NoBusinessAsUsual #BlackLivesMatter Be safe and stay strong! Love, The TGI Justice Family |
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Watch TGIJP's Program Director Janetta Johnson’s video for Black Girl Dangerous’ MagniFLY! Video Visibility Project for Trans Women of Color.
Her video is called~ "Bustin' Out: From Solitary to ReEntry"
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TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender people—inside and outside of prison—creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom.
We work in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures. We seek to create a world rooted in self determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice.
We work in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures. We seek to create a world rooted in self determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice.
