Black and Trans Lives Matter: the link between policing, anti-blackness and anti-transness

by Felicity Adams, PhD Candidate, School of Law, Keele University This summer marks 50 years since Black trans people and queer people of colour including Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and Stormé DeLarverie led the Stonewall Rebellion against systemic police violence. As Bassichis, Lee, and Spade highlight: “These early freedom fighters knew all too well …

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