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Thank you Miss Major for your lifelong fight for Black trans women and girls like us. You were what the world needed and a mother to so many of us. Rest in power, beautiful angel. We’re still here and still fighting because of you. ✊🏿🏳️⚧️ #RIPMISSMAJOR
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy known for her incredible resilience she survived homelessness, police brutality, and systemic oppression, yet kept fighting for the community she loved.
Image courtesy of Miss Major/Beck Witt 📸
A fun fact about Miss Major Griffin-Gracy:
She was a key organizer in the Stonewall uprising and later became a lifelong advocate for Black trans women, helping hundreds through her work with trans prison abolition and housing initiatives.
📸 Date unknown, Alexa Wilkinson 🏳️⚧️
A rare and radiant photo of Marsha P. Johnson, adorned in white face makeup and dazzling Christmas ornament earrings—glamorous as ever.
Date unknown, sourced via @BlkTransArchive.
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Flyer featuring a posing Sir Lady Java with a net cape, feathered headpiece, and decorated two piece outfit. Bobby Bryant management information in bottom right. 📸
An image from a 1960s/1970s brochure titled Who is Sir Lady Java? featuring her in an elaborate feather costume designed by Java herself. The source of another photo is unknown. #TransDayOfVisibility
Frances Thompson a black trans woman Born into slavery around 1840, Thompson claimed Maryland as her birthplace. Enslaved by Robert Walker (or Wallace), a Virginia-born man, she moved to Memphis with her family as a child. 📚
In the late 1860s, she moved to a small home on Madison Avenue and took a new roommate, a young, chronically ill woman named Sallie Jordan. A few years later, she moved again to the northeast corner of Front Street and A.W. Willis Avenue, across from the old Shelby County Jail.
Frances Thompson, a disabled Black trans woman, was a skilled seamstress, dedicated activist, and Hoodoo practitioner in the late 19th century.
A story that we should all know about. I wrote about her life for @MLK50Memphis if you wanna learn more: mlk50.com/2024/05/30/they-ch…
An article from the Memphis Daily Appeal summarizing an interview with Frances Thompson, a formerly enslaved Black trans woman and anti-rape activist. 📚⬇️⬇️ (July 14, 1876)
Do Y’all know about Frances Thompson? A formerly enslaved Black trans woman, she was one of the first trans women known to testify before the U.S. Congress. In 1866, she gave a powerful account of Memphis Massacre, detailing the racial & sexual violence committed by white mobs.📚
Quick Black trans history quiz: What does the “P” in Marsha P. Johnson stand for?
Marsha P. Johnson at the 1982 Pride Parade American gay liberation activist Marsha P. Johnson (1945–1992) (center, in a dark sequined outfit) stands with unidentified individuals at the corner of Christopher Street and 7th Avenue during the Pride March. Photo by Barbara Alper. 📸
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