Let’s call it what it is: Afratransfemmicide 

[Content Warning: This article mentions anti-Blackness, transphobia, transmisogyny, violence against Black trans women and femmes, and other instances of reproductive and sexual violence.]  Ten years ago, I began my medical transition. Perhaps it was the newness of my own journey that made me especially aware when, in 2015, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) began to release annual reports documenting the murders of transgender and gender-expansive people. These reports have been invaluable, but it’s crucial to remember that it was the late Black trans journalist Monica Roberts—who blogged under TransGriot—who first set the standard for investigative journalism on the murders of trans people. Since 2006, Roberts tirelessly sifted through deadnaming, underreporting, and anti-sex worker bias that obscured the deaths of countless transgender people of color.  Each year since 2013, has brought… Read more »