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"too much things to say"... seeing my world throughout my open-mind lens. Trying to be Hipster, Trying to be Gay, Trying to be someone but if i'm not i don't give a fuck. Venezuela

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Black lesbian couple and two children brutally murdered in upstate NY

An 11-year old boy, a 5-year old girl, their 36-year-old mother and her 22-year-old girlfriend were found murdered in their basement apartment in what police are calling "not a random act."

Two days after Christmas, the bodies of a Black lesbian couple and their two children were found brutally murdered in their home in Troy, New York. They have been identified as Shanise Myers, 5, Jeremiah Myers, 11, Shanta Myers, 36, and Brandi Mells, 22. 

Police officials say that they don’t believe this was a random act. Another family of four was murdered in 2014 not far from the town where this took place. 

According to a very small survey on niche.com, “62% of Troy residents say LGBT residents are somewhat accepted.” According to City-Data, lesbian couples comprise 0.6% of all households, and 47% of Troy residents voted for Trump in the 2016 election. There is an active LGBT community in nearby Albany. Lansingburgh is described as “fairly diverse,” a predominately working-class Irish neighborhood since the 1880s that is now 71% white, 17% Black, 9% Hispanic or Latino and 3% “other.”

“Only a person of savagery would do something like this,” police chief John Tedesco said at the press conference. “Nobody that’s been involved in this case is going to forget this.”

I’m speechless. This is horrific not just for this family’s loved ones, but for an entire community – for all of us. My heart is with all those who loved them. May they rest in peace and power. May nobody be hurt like this ever again. 

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Insomnio I by Remedios Varo (1947)

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In memory of Candace Towns, the 26th trans person killed in 2017

Candace Towns had been missing since Oct. 28, 2017, before she was found slain on Rosecrest Avenue in Macon, GA, on Oct. 31.

Candace Towns, a 30-year-old transgender woman in Georgia, was found shot to death on Tuesday. She had been missing since Sunday. 

GLAAD reports that Candace is the 26th transgender person known to have been killed in the United States this year, and all but two of those have been trans people of color. (GLAAD's “count” says there have been 23 trans people killed, but it does not seem to include the three who were killed by police, bringing the total to 26.) 

Bibb County Chief Deputy Coroner Lonnie Miley said Towns’ family said she had been staying at the Rodeway Inn off Eisenhower Parkway. Miley said he was sure the death was a homicide.

Friends and family hugged each other and sobbed as a hearse arrived with a crime scene unit.

“If I needed anything she would give it to me. She would give me the clothes off her back,” her best friend Malaysa Monroe said of Towns. “I just don’t know who would want to do something like this to a good friend of mine, but I hope whoever did this, I hope God don’t have mercy on your soul, baby.”

Dammit, dammit, dammit. As a reminder, here are actions you must take right now to ensure the survival of trans women of color. Rest in peace and power, Candace. We will say your name. 

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BREAKING: Andrea Jenkins elected to Minneapolis City Council, making her the first trans woman of color elected to U.S. office

She's the first transgender person elected to a major city's governing body and the first trans person of color elected to any office in the U.S.

Another transgender woman made history in today’s election! 

Andrea Jenkins was elected to the Minneapolis City Council. She’s the first trans person elected to a major city’s governing body and the first trans woman of color elected to office in the United States. 

Jenkins won in the city’s Eighth Ward, where she had been a policy aide to departing Council Vice President Elizabeth Glidden. The Minneapolis Star Tribune had endorsed her, saying she was highly qualified and well prepared for the office. She bested three other candidates. Jenkins is a Democrat; the race is officially nonpartisan, but candidates can identify with a party label. She had the endorsement of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, as the Democratic Party is known in Minnesota, and of Victory Fund.

As an aide to Glidden and previous Eighth Ward council member Robert Lilligren, Jenkins worked to revitalize the neighborhood with small businesses and arts venues, and helped organize a Trans* Equity Summit. She emphasized, however, that revitalization must not come at the expense of poor people.

During the campaign, she said her priorities include developing affordable housing, raising the minimum wage, addressing youth violence as a matter of public health, and supporting minority artists. She is a historian with the Transgender Oral History Project at the University of Minnesota as well as a poet, prose author, and performance artist who has received numerous grants for her work.

The other transgender woman who won in this election is Danica Roem in Virginia. Change is coming, y’all, and this is what it looks like. Congrats, ladies.

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Happy Asexual Awareness Week! You are valid and you belong. 💜

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Happy Asexual Awareness Week! You are valid and you belong. 💜

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Jeff Sessions reverses federal protections for transgender employees

It's an "appalling assault" on the queer community, they said.

In his latest act as literal walking garbage, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the reversal of 2014 guidance that had protected transgender federal government employees from discrimination. 

“Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination encompasses discrimination between men and women,” Sessions said in the memo, which was obtained by BuzzFeed, CNN and USA Today, “but does not encompass discrimination based on gender identity per se, including transgender status.”

“This is a conclusion of law, not policy,” Sessions said. The department, he added, will take this new position in all “pending and future matters.”

Justice Department spokesman Devin O’Malley doubled down on Sessions’ remarks Thursday. “Unfortunately, the last administration abandoned that fundamental principle, which necessitated today’s action,” he told USA Today. “This department remains committed to protecting the civil and constitutional rights of all individuals, and will continue to enforce the numerous laws that Congress has enacted that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.”

Disgusting, bigoted, unacceptable. It’s hard to feel anything but hopeless right now. Don’t let that happen. Take a nap, have a snack, cry a little, do whatever you have to do to get yourself back into shape. There is more work to do. 

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October is LGBTQ History Month.

Because of generations of activists who came before us, we have made incredible strides toward justice.

Because of unconscionable hate in the White House and beyond, we have so much farther to go.

Because of brilliant, dedicated people fighting all over the world for what’s right, we will get there.

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‪Art by Trevor Webb from Starliners by Stewart Cowley (1980) #terrantradeauthority ‬

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When You're Queer And Undocumented, The DACA Stakes Are Higher | HuffPost

"For a lot of us, going back to our home countries isn’t an option because of our queerness."

When Tony Choi was in high school, his friends would ask him why he didn’t drive. He would evade the question with what he thought was the only plausible defense: He cared deeply about global warming, he told them. Twelve years later, he laughs at his attempt at that moral argument, which was simply a cover-up for the fact that he’s an undocumented immigrant and had no way of getting an ID.

“I learned to really hide myself,” Choi, who’s from Seoul, South Korea, and lives in New York, told HuffPost. “It definitely didn’t feel good. It made me scared. My sister would say, ‘If you stand out too much, they’ll take you away.’”

These memories came back to Choi, now 28, on Tuesday, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced President Donald Trump was nixing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, ending protections for some 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the country as minors. The program, originally enacted under former President Barack Obama and now in Congress’ hands, shielded young people from deportation and allowed them to work in the country legally.

Besides being undocumented, Choi is also gay. He points out there is more at stake for people who could be forced to go back to a country that isn’t big on LGBTQ rights. He notes that military service is compulsory in South Korea for men ― and the military penal code prohibits consensual same-sex acts.  

“For a lot of us, going back to our home countries isn’t an option because of our queerness,” he said. “If I were to go to Korea, I would have to do the two-year mandatory service in the military, and the law prohibits sodomy.”

This is important. Read the whole thing here. 

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Guitar and Violin 1912

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Guernica 1937

Pablo Picasso

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The Dream (The Bed) 1940

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