Chants began of “I believe in my power,” soon escalating it to “I believe in your power,” and “I believe in our power,” then finally to, “I believe in Black trans power.”
Many of the people gathered had their own stories of police brutality to tell, but that didn’t stop them from showing up for the Black trans community. “I was arrested at my first protest—a bunch of cops stopped me, maced me, and put cuffs on me so tightly that it gave me nerve damage,” said Molly, who uses the pronouns they/them. They added, “It was very weird to be nonbinary in jail. They kept calling me ‘her,’ and I kept saying, ‘I’m a them,’ and a cop laughed and said, ‘There’s always one.
Ianne Fields Stewart, founder of the Okra Project, also stressed the significance of the day’s event as they addressed the crowds: “Today is the last day that a Black trans woman fears for her life when she...claims herself in front of a man whose hatred of himself is stronger than his love for her. Today is the last day that a Black trans man fears occupying physical space because he can’t find his binder or is without it....
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