Ashlee Marie Preston writes:
Ashlee Marie Preston writes:
Black trans women are tired of being cast in everyone’s trauma porn. It shouldn’t take our murders or viral videos of us being berated, humiliated, and brutally beaten while bystanders pull out their phones to capture the consumption of our dignity for you to have compassion for us. We are not caricatures but real people with hopes, dreams, and aspirations.
Do you agree with Preston that Black trans women are often depicted as caricatures in “trauma porn”? What other kinds of visibility and solidarity might be useful to support the hopes , dreams, and aspirations of Black trans women?