Thread by @radfagg

A Black tgnc person named #TonyMcDade was killed by police in Tallahassee, FL on Wednesday. I think of #LayleenPolanco dying in her cell at Rikers Island the first week of #PrideMonth 2019.

#TransLiberation demands #Abolition news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-new…

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BLM organizers have long noted that while masses turn up in the wake of police murders of Black men, it's a struggle to get a small crowd to turn up for Black women. It's hard to get any attention at all when Black TGNC people are killed. #TonyMcDade #BlackTransLivesMatter

It's more complicated than mere homophobia and mysognoir in Black communities--though that's part of it. Yet it's also about entrenched discourses about who police target and kill that leaves out survivors, women, TGNC people, and many others. #TonyMcDade #BlackTransLivesMatter

I am so deeply grateful that Black people are turning up around the country right now for #GeorgeFloyd. We need to turn up that way every single time one of our people is murdered. We still need to turn up for #BreonnaTaylor and now #TonyMcDade #BlackTransLivesMatter

Black liberation is impossible unless our vision for it includes ALL Black people. It is impossible without #PoliceAbolition, #PrisonAbolition, #TransLiberation. #BlackTransLivesMatter #TonyMcDade

I believe in us. We are angry and organized. Let's keep expanding what we extend that anger towards, and what we demand to quell it. Let's #DefundPolice and #AbolishPrisons not only to honor the Black men we've lost, but EVERYONE we've lost. #TonyMcDade #BlackTransLivesMatter