Fight for your sisters, not just your cis-sters.
Her mom is planning on taking her suicide note off Tumblr so everyone screenshot it and post it and reblog it till your fingers bleed.
Leelah Alcorn was a 17 year old transgender woman artist. She grew up in a very religious Christian family. When she came out as trangender to her parents they told her it was a phase and sent her to therapy. The therapies they sent her to were religious ones that told her things like god makes no mistakes, told her she was selfish, and that the only way to cure depression was to follow gods path. She came out as “gay” at school so people wouldn’t be as shocked when she came out as trans. Her friends were accepting but her parents called her an embarrassment. They took away all electronics for 5 months and kicked her out of public school.
She was an artist. he drawing above was drawn by her.
She committed suicide on December 29th due to the transphobia caused by her family. Please remember her and the other transgender people how lose their lives to transphobia.
Link to her tumblr (warning that it contains her suicide note and sensitive materiel)
R.I.P LEELAH ALCORN
Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman-Hughes, 1972 and 2014
Both by Dan Bagan
Wanna see my cry like a baby? Ask me who these women were.
Hughes’ father was beaten nearly to death by the KKK when she was a kid, and what does she do? Become an activist to try and stop that from happening to other people. She raised money to bail civil rights protesters out of jail. She helped women get out of abusive situations by providing shelter for them until they got on their feet. She founded an agency that helped women get to work without having to leave their children alone, because childcare in the 1970s? Not really a thing. In fact, a famous feminist line in the 70s was “every housewife is one man away from welfare.”
Then she teamed up with Steinman to found the Women’s Action Alliance, which created the first battered women’s shelters in history. They attacked women’s rights issues through boots on the ground activism, problem solving, and communication. They stomped over barriers of race and class to meet women where they were: mostly mothers who wanted better for themselves and their children.
These are women are who I always wanted to be.
Let’s not forget that these ladies are STILL out there grinding on the front lines for feminism.
Why is it when I take off my glasses people ask me
“How many fingers am I holding up!?”
I don’t see this:
I see this:
One time a black girl took my glasses and said “what color am I”
People that know Leelah or live near her home/in the comunity:
Chances are that her parents will have her buried (if they bury her in a marked grave) under a headstone that reads “Josh”
Don’t let it hapen.
Change the headstone
Paint it
Tape over it
Do what you can to make sure her parents and those that see her grave know that she deserved more. That she was Leelah and nothing her bigoted parents can do will change that. Ever.
may you never be forgotten
EDIT: out of respect for Leelah, please, if you reblog this, reblog the version with her preffered hair!
