That's a good question. First of all, it should be answered by people who are affected, and it's the job of people like me to amplify their voices. Some concrete examples are working towards prison abolition, the legalization of sex work, immigration reform, and a guaranteed minimum income. None of these issues are specific to trans women or trans people constructed more broadly, and that's not a coincidence. It also means speaking up when somebody in your presence makes a joke at the expense of trans women, assumed-to-be-male people doing feminine-coded things, or sex workers[*], and not explicitly or implicitly supporting people and media outlets that repeatedly use anti-trans and anti-sex-worker humor. This support can be financial for people who have money to spare, but it doesn't have to be.
But part of it is: if I don't even know what I could be doing to mitigate the harm that my way of life does to people who are oppressed along axes I'm not oppressed along, what business do I have mourning that harm *only after* there's a dead body who conveniently can't be reanimated?
[*] obviously this has to be done with consideration for one's own safety, and I really mean that I should do it, not somebody who is themself at risk for gendered violence directed against gender-non-conforming people.
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Date: 2013-11-21 05:44 pm (UTC)But part of it is: if I don't even know what I could be doing to mitigate the harm that my way of life does to people who are oppressed along axes I'm not oppressed along, what business do I have mourning that harm *only after* there's a dead body who conveniently can't be reanimated?
[*] obviously this has to be done with consideration for one's own safety, and I really mean that I should do it, not somebody who is themself at risk for gendered violence directed against gender-non-conforming people.