SPEAK SATURDAY: Lourdes Ashley Hunter
"I am a healer, an academic, an orator. I am a revolutionary. I am a descendant of slaves, kings and queens ripped from the shores of Africa. I come from a village of freedom fighters and liberators. I am Goddess, Queen, sister."
"Every breath a trans person of color takes is an act of revolution."
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This week's article is actually a video, a powerful one featuring Lourdes Ashley Hunter — the Co-Founder and National Director of the Trans Women of Color Collective.
Click play to hear Hunter discuss non-binary genders, systematic oppression, violence as well as her call to action.
