Supporting LGBTQ Youth and Trans Women of Color in Detroit
Underestimated: A Podcast
English - June 09, 2019 04:00 - 57 minutes - 78.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture News conversations essay introvert storytelling underestimated Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Happy Pride!
Episode 11 of #DontMentionIt - My conversation with Lilianna Reyes, Second Stories Director at the Ruth Ellis Center & Co-Executive Director of the Trans Sistas of Color Project. We talk about the Ruth Ellis Center, life for trans women of color, and about the role racism and privilege play in access to resources for people of color in the LGBTQIA+ community.
Note: This episode contains difficult subject matter including violence against trans women of color and survival sex work.
All opinions expressed by the me in this podcast are my own, and do not represent the views of anyone else, or any employer, company, or entity.
Show Notes
Links
Ruth Ellis Center Website:
http://www.ruthelliscenter.org/
Second Stories Drop-In Center at Ruth Ellis
http://www.ruthelliscenter.org/what-we-do/2ndstories/
Ruth Ellis Center 2018 Report
http://www.ruthelliscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ReReport.pdf
Ruth Ellis Center on Twitter: @REC_Detroit
Instagram @ruthelliscenter
FB at facebook.com/RuthEllisCenter
Trans Sistas of Color Project - Detroit
https://www.facebook.com/TSCOPD/
Trans Sistas of Color Project Detroit Twitter @tsocproject
Instagram @tsocproject
To Donate
Monetary Donations (Please remember that if you want your donation to go to Trans Sistas of Color Project, to indicate that in the notes field):
https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=rutheci&id=1
Clothing & Other Items:
http://www.ruthelliscenter.org/get-involved/donate-items/
Articles
Vice.com, Pastor charged with murder of black trans woman near notorious Detroit park
Human Rights Campaign, Violence Against the Transgender Community in 2019
Human Rights Campaign Report, Dismantling A Culture Of Violence
Human Rights Campaign, New Report on Youth Homeless Affirms that LGBTQ Youth Disproportionately Experience Homelessness
Inside Monica Roberts’ Mission to Identify Transgender Murder Victims
President Obama Designates Stonewall National Monument
Killings of transgender people in the US saw another high year
Monuments
Stonewall Forever - A Living Monument to 50 Years Of Pride
New York City Monument Will Honor Transgender Activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera
Organizations & Podcasts
Documentaries
Stonewall Uprising, THE YEAR THAT CHANGED AMERICA - American Experience, PBS
How To Survive A Plague - Independent Lens - Release Date:September 21, 2012
Paris is Burning - Release Date: August 1991 (USA), Director, Jennie Livingston
Additional Music Credits
“In Suspense”, from PodSummit.com is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication License. Edited for length for episode.