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USA – Registration for the North American Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference (NATEAC) will open on 15 June, 2021. NATEAC 2021, a virtual con
A Somerset County-based nonprofit has launched a campaign to raise $35,000 to begin developing Patriot Park, which members envision as a heartfelt tribute to the hundreds of thousands who have served during the
Ogechukwu C. Ogbogu â24 lives in Wigglesworth Hall. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays.
Thursday, March 31, was the first federally recognized Transgender Day of Visibility â a day made to recognize and support transgender persons in the US and globally. Visibility requires both awareness and a reorientation in how we regard transsexuality and trans individuals. When discussing Black womanhood, there is a common erasure that others and I must learn to better recognize: the invisibility of Black trans women within our conversations and our understandings of Black womanhood.
Transmisogynoir, coined by a womanist writer known as Trudy, describes the compounded structures of anti-Blackness, cissexism, and misogynoir that oppress Black trans women and femmes. Misogynoir, coined by the queer Black feminist Moya Bailey, is used to illustrate the combined oppression that Black cisgender women experience through anti-Blackness and misogyny.
Brittany Elamparo
The women’s rights movement wouldn’t be the indomitable force it is today without the radical leadership of women of intersectional identities. A term coined by a Black woman professor by the name of Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989,
intersectionality is used to describe the depths of discrimination an individual faces when they experience multiple forms of oppression simultaneously. Black trans women are the embodiment of Crenshaw’s elaborate framework. When I advocate for myself as a Black trans woman, the Black, LGBTQ+, and women’s rights movements greatly benefit. I don’t always benefit from each of those respective movements, as the layers of my identity are often at war with one another. Black trans women are left in the crossfire to fend for ourselves. And still, we find ourselves fearlessly advocating for a just and equitable society capacious enough to free up the margins.