2021 Trans Awareness Week Spotlight: Scarlett DiGiacomo

I have seen a lot change since I began my transition about half my life ago now. In my earliest memories, my gender was mine alone. A secret only I knew. It was a place I could come to for peace. It was not the perception of me which I was named for, it was the truth of me when I was uninhibited by those expectations, a truth that I was told without being told must be kept within. It was my yolk, around which I grew a shell of secrecy, though soft the shell was, and deep and strong my yolk grew.

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Lavender Rights Project
Holding Our Community Closer: A November Reflection from Jaelynn Scott

Trans Awareness Week is approaching and we are taking this moment to lift the power and magic of all trans people this month. Since November 1999, we have been celebrating the lives and contributions of transgender persons and the lives lost to us annually in November. While we haven’t been shy naming the violence directed at our community and disproportionately at Black Trans women and femmes, our community feels in this moment that it is equally important to appreciate the gifts of those who are still with us.

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#TransAwarnessWeek - Coming November 15-20, 2021

It is that time of year again where we are approaching #TransgenderAwarenessWeek! For those that do not know, TAW is where organizations and community members raise visibility and amplify the issues of Trans and Gender Diverse people. LRP is #GivingThemFlowers and highlighting Black Trans Women and Femmes across disciplines that we feel haven’t gotten the recognition they deserve.

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November Housing Update from Ebo Barton

Welcome back to the rain for which we are best known. Pluviophiles are ecstatic, transplants are wondering when it ends, all of us are layering up and I am here with a housing update for November. I have a big gratitude to all of you for your phenomenal support for our Registry campaign, a resource I’d like to share, a big event to save the date on your calendar, and someone in the community that I met that could be helpful to some of you.

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