I don’t always agree with Natalie. But when I do, I prefer…uh, shit, too early, no caffeine, can’t come up with anything good here.

In this case, she’s dead right. We as trans women of color are not tokens, pawns, game pieces, NPCs, or anything else. We’re people. We exist. And maybe your white-ass support group and your white-ass TDoR “celebrations” don’t get that, but take your hands off the theory crack pipe for a solid 30 seconds and you’ll see we EXIST.

I know, it’s hard to ponder that the people whose deaths make up a damn list and who get talked about plenty online in theory actually exist in practice, reality, the three-dimensional world. I’m not a theoretical entity, I am a real person.

So whilst we don’t always agree, in this case, affirmed like whoa.