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8 Mar, 9 tweets, 5 min read
#TransWomenareWomen so here's a thread of badass trans women to learn about and celebrate on #InternationalWomensDay

Let's start with Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a veteran of the Stonewall uprising, AIDS activist, prison abolitionist, feminist, and trans liberation organizer. Image
Now on to Wendy Carlos, trans woman musician who helped invent the popular Moog synthesizer. She composed the scores for A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Tron, as well as "Switched on Bach." An absolute legend and godmother of electronic music. Image
Marsha P. Johnson. Activist. Performer. Drag queen. Stonewall veteran. Sex worker. Founding member of the Gay Liberation Front and co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.) Later an AIDS activist with Act-Up. Consistently fought for the most vulnerable. Image
Mary Ann Horton, early Internet and Usenet, contributed to Berkeley UNIX (BSD), including vi editor and terminfo database, created the first email attachment tool uuencode, and led the growth of Usenet in the 1980s. Pushed for trans-inclusive health insurance at major companies Image
Sylvia Rivera. Latinx trans liberation activist & co-founder of S.T.A.R. Famously grabbed the mic at Christopher Street Liberation Day Rally to call out assimilationist gay and lesbian rights groups who ignored the needs of trans people, sex workers, POC, & unhoused youth Image
Getting a bit more modern, here's @LauraJaneGrace. Punk singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer. Founder of the band @againstme and all around badass. Image
And now on to one of my personal heroes, @RaquelWillis_, who on her website describes herself as a "Black transgender activist, award-winning writer, and media strategist dedicated to elevating the dignity of marginalized people, particularly Black transgender people." FOLLOW HER Image
Elle Hearns (@SoulFreeDreams) organizer, speaker and writer. Currently executive director of the @MPJInstitute, "an organization founded in 2015 that works to create a crucial entry point for Black transgender women to advocate for an end to violence against all trans people." Image
Gosh, I could go on. But I need to go take myself a little #InternationalWomensDay walk and enjoy the sun. Sending so much love to all women, trans and cis, who fight for collective liberation and an end to systemic violence, oppression, and exploitation. <3

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But journalists also need to talk to ACTIVISTS, who have actual lived experience using social media for organizing.
Your perspective on things like disinformation & deplatforming change dramatically when you have actually experienced getting deplatformed or algorithmically suppressed or incorrectly flagged as spam just as a campaign is going viral. Even if it's fixed later, the damage is done.
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