Trans Queer Pueblo

Somos una comunidad autónoma LGBT+ migrante de color que trabaja donde encontremos a nuestro pueblo, creando ciclos de apoyo mutuo que cultivan liderazgo para generar el poder comunitario que liberará nuestros cuerpos y mentes de los sistemas de opresión hacia una justicia para tod@s. We are an autonomous LGBTQ+ migrant community of color who works wherever we find our people, creating cycles of mutual support that cultivate leadership to generate the community power that will liberate our bodies and minds from systems of oppression toward justice for all people.

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Join the resistence! We will celebrate a year of work toward trans queer migrant liberation. Every day we bring #glitterandresistence to Phoenix, making social justice one leader and one show at a time. 18.nov | 6pm | Karamba Phoenix | 15$ ¡Únete a la resistencia! Celebraremos un año de trabajo hacia la liberación lgbt+ migrante. Cada día, con #ResistenciayLentejuelas, creamos la justicia social un líder y un show a la vez. #queercultura #culturaenresistencia #grassrootsfundraising https://www.facebook.com/events/242874162906536/

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Felicidades Karyna R Jaramillo. Hoy celebramos una victoria para nuestra comunidad: nuestra coordinadora de Defensa gano su caso de asilo. Gracias a Celestial Roman y abogados por apoyar en complicidad y camaradería con los poderosos líderes de nuestra comunidad. Congratulations, Karyna R Jaramillo. Today we celebrate a victory for our community: our Defense Coordinator won her asylum case. Thanks to Celestial Roman and lawyers for supporting in complicity and camaraderie with the powerful leaders of our community. (at Trans Queer Pueblo)

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[alwaysbewoke]

for real. reading the history of the laws (the many laws) written to keep blacks away from anything empowering is quite dizzying and housing discrimination was a big one. laws keeping and taking land from blacks go way back (for example) and as society progressed, it morphed to fit the times. nowadays it’s housing discrimination and it’s rampant. 

[random-alias-deactivated2016020]

Shonda Rhimes needs to make a show for Black kids and let him star.

[vivaillajams]

How ironic. I was just talking about this.

This shit is serious. Gentrification is an issue. Housing discrimination is real. 

[amyleona-blog]

True stories: -A Black family moving into a suburban neighborhood actually would lower the prices of homes. Because all the White people would try to move out as soon as possible. -If the new suburb was next to a non-White neighborhood, a fence could be put up “for safety” to instantly raise property values. -Have you heard the term redline/-ing? It refers to the practice of corporations color coding a region and not investing in or refusing service to those from certain (red) areas. These were usually poor Black neighborhoods. This included refusing those in redlined areas access to jobs, loans, medical care, etc. -Many older developments that were predominately home to poor PoC were destroyed with the promise of a new development or a suburb. This almost never happened and left the country with a shortage of affordable housing that still exists today. -“Between 1934 and 1962, the federal government backed $120 billion of home loans. More than 98% went to whites. Of the 350,000 new homes built with federal support in northern California between 1946 and 1960, fewer than 100 went to African Americans.” http://newsreel.org/guides/race/whiteadv.htm

White people whose family has owned homes since the mid 20th century: The financial success and safety of our families and ourselves is completely based on racism. Never forget that.

Read more: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_discrimination_in_the_United_States_housing_market http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Housing_Administration http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_v._Kramer http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Housing_Act

[alwaysbewoke]

This needs more notes. People need to know just how this society made it a point at every turn to hold (and still hold today) Black people down for the benefit of whites.

A huge part of white wealth was created through real estate. A sector that Black people were systematically kept out of. A sector now where Black people are still preyed upon.

[seriouslyamerica]

White real estate agents also took advantage of racist white homeowners with a practice called blockbusting, where they would encourage them to sell their homes at a loss with just the hint or promise that a black family (or sometimes Jewish or nonblack PoC family, depending on the region) was going to move in.

There were also footnotes on the actual deeds for many houses in white neighborhoods, stipulating that the house was never allowed to be sold or rented to a nonwhite occupant (Jewish people were nearly always considered nonwhite for these purposes). Called restrictive covenants, these were demanded and upheld by white homeowners associations, often with the real threat of violence.

Racist housing discrimination is as American as apple pie at a baseball game.

[alwaysbewoke]

and this brings us to the current situation where the supreme court is going to take a look at the “Disparate Impact” rule of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. What disparate impact rule does is keep people from trying to discriminate against protected groups in America though subtle means. In our society, racism is very subtle especially when it’s corporate. So instead of putting out a sign that says “whites only” in front of building, a landlord can simply refuse to entertain people with a “Black” sounding name. In doing so they can say that their screening process has nothing to do with race but yet their process negatively impacts Black people and under this rule would be considered illegal. Another example would be banks deciding to issue loans at a higher interest rate to people in a certain part of town and claiming that doing so has nothing to do with race when in fact they are well aware that said part of town is populated by mostly Black people. So again, not blatant, quite subtle but under the disparate impact rule illegal. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the legality of this rule and, given their history of gutting civil right protections, could very well strike it down. If that happens, the flood gates of housing discrimination will be wide open and Black people, above all, are going to get hammered.

The case the Supreme Court will here is actually a great example of the subtle racial discrimination and racist practices the rule was made to fight. A Texas state agency awards low-income-housing tax credits to certain developers; a high percentage of this housing winds up being occupied by minorities. The agency, without giving a legitimate reason, granted the tax credits disproportionately to developers who own properties in impoverished, minority-majority neighborhoods. A fair housing group sued, insisting that the agency’s practices had the effect of keeping minorities trapped in minority communities while helping white communities keep minorities out. Simple. A subtle action was taken that had huge negative affect on minorities because where you live is everything in this country. From access to public transportation, healthy foods, clean air, emergency services, well resourced schools, playgrounds, cleanliness and etc are all affect by where you live and if an action is creating a circumstance that keeps a group of people locked in areas where those elements are below average, there’s a problem. Racism and discrimination in this country is subtle as fuck but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist and shouldn’t be fought. What the SCOTUS is going to do is anyone’s guess but I’m not optimistic. We could very well be looking at a long period where Blacks (as well as other minority groups) are going to be preyed upon more viciously than we’ve seen in a very long time. 

[alwaysbewoke]

There’s a bunch of re-blogs of this without the caption, smfh. DO NOT REMOVE THE TEXT ABOVE!! THERE IS VITAL INFORMATION HERE!!!

[alwaysbewoke]

smfh. and to realize that 13% of muslims in this country voted for him just to see him do this. damn. makes it hard to feel bad for those people.

[coffeewithmelanin]

Are you kidding me? 13% ain’t shit compared to the millions of US muslims with actual common sense (sounds like a suspect statistic anyway). So you just gonna ignore the fact that those 13% are citizens and this ban targets non-citizens and refugees fleeing danger who had no say in the presidency? but oh wait I forgot Muslims are just a big conglomerated group of non-distinct people that are all undeserving of basic rights if they got a few fuck ups myb

[alwaysbewoke]

smfh. did you just fail english class or didn’t bother to take it at fucking all? the fuck is wrong with you? you basically just spent all that time writing something that shows us that you don’t fucking know how to read.

how the fuck you are on the internet and don’t know that “those” is a relative clause that refers to the proceeding noun. in other fucking words asswipe, in this sentence “those” refers to the 13% reference in the previous sentence not muslims in general.

get the fuck off my posts with your ignorant ass thinking you’re educating someone on some shit! get your education up fucker before you come for me. 

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[transqueerpueblo]

Check out the incredible work and learn about Karyna Jaramillo’s journey towards ending all detention and deportations with the Community Defense project she leads.

Echa un vistazo al increíble trabajo y aprende sobre el viaje de Karyna Jaramillo hacia el fin de todas las detenciones y deportaciones con el proyecto de defensa comunitaria que lidera.

[culturestrike]

This #Pride weekend, we honor the legacies of folks like #MarshaPJohnson whose activism propelled a movement for #LGBTQ rights. We uplift our Trans kin and QT people of color, who to this day continue to face invisibility and violence, even within LGBTQ spaces, but are often at the forefront of our liberation. 🎨 by @micahbazant #PrideMonth #Pride2017 #Queer #Trans #TransArt #QTPOC #queerart #artforchange #art

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Feliz dia de la madres!

Si estas interesad@ en apoyar a la comunidad LGBT migrante mira el video y comparte. Juntos podemos lograr Justicia LGBT Migrant!

#familyacceptance #aceptacionfamiliar #LGBT #undocuqueer#mothersday #diadelasmadres