Is it just me or did anyone else notice that Black women had just started to have a voice in the BLM movement when Black Trans Lives Matter started to be pushed harder? A lot of white celebrities had just participated in the pass the mic event to share their platform with Black highlight the injustices that Black women face at the hands of police and in life in general. Then not a day later my whole instagram feed now was taken over by Black Trans Lives Matter. So, Black women had like a day where people started to talk about how their race and sex intersect in regards to oppression before they had to pivot to support trans lives matter.

In putting this post together I wanted to find the number of black women who were murdered in 2019. I think it was over 60,000. TRA’s always through out the 26 trans people that were killed in 2019 but fail to mention the rate that black women are killed. Well I didn’t find the number because on the first page of my google search “black women deaths 2019” only two articles weren’t about trans women.