queerandpresentdanger:

justsjwthings:

justsjwthings: labrujamorgan: h34rken: You know what would be really great? If There was as much outpouring of support and love for the trans* community when one of us gets fucking murdered, as there is when a company says they wouldn’t air a commercial with gays in it. … Guess how many white attractive gay men have got murdered and you don’t remember? Think of three besides Matthew Shepard off the top of your head, dumbass. No, don’t use google. Anyway who cares if people remember him? It doesn’t stop the fact that he died a brutal death, you fucking moron. What, you think all the high school drama performances of the Laramie Project bought him back to life, and stopped any and all acts of homophobia against white LGBT? You can leave now, instead of trying to turn homophobic murders and violence against LGBT into a pissing contest.

How many Black and/or Latina trans women that have been murdered do you know by name? And guess what, statistically, these murders happen AT LEAST once a month in the U.S., so you have plenty to choose from. When was the last time you heard about any of them?

There’s a reason Black and Latina trans women face disproportionate antiqueer violence and yet the face of that violence is a young white cis man. And those reasons are white supremacy and transphobia and a trans woman of color has every fucking right to be upset when she sees her sisters fall on the monthly to no fucking peep from the mainstream gay rights movement.

It’s not a pissing contest to realize that there are privileges within our queerness. It’s not a pissing contest for me to recognize that me being a cis man protects me from some antiqueer violence and me being a man of color opens me up to slightly more. That these are delicate and shitty balances we have to walk with all the time. Recognizing that isn’t playing oppression olympics, it’s recognizing your positionality and trying to be in solidarity with folks who might have it a little worse than you. Stop being a fucking asshole.