In her new book, DePaul University professor Francesca Royster describes the process of becoming a mother and building a family as a queer Black woman.
Transgender residents and their allies gathered in Charlotte on Sunday to honor the memory of transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.
At least 57 transgender or gender-nonconforming people were killed in the United States in 2021, making it the deadliest year on record for the community. The vast majority of these victims were Black or Latina trans women. A Media Matters analysis of broadcast news shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC, as well as cable news coverage on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC found that cable and corporate broadcast TV news networks failed to adequately report on anti-trans violence in 2021, discussing the topic in just 19 segments for a total of 43 minutes of coverage. Reports from MSNBC accounted for more than two-thirds of this coverage; every other network covered the topic for 5 minutes or less each.