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Seshat and I this morning in East Harlem for a #SwipeItForward action and also the Launch of the H.O.M.E (Housing Over Monitoring and Policing) campaign with #BYP100-NYC to end permanent exclusion in #NYCHA housing. #BuildBlackFutures #HousingIsAHumanRight

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More politicking for my people: This morning for the #SwipeItForward campaign I joined #BYP100 to swipe people into the train station for free because "broken-windows" policing is racist, class is the, and a tool of racial-capitalistic oppression. #BuildBlackFutures #EndHomelessness #PeopleOverProfit

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Last night at a rally for Trans lives, and I'd never been more uncomfortable speaking publically before. I was uncomfortable because I don't have a quick answer to the issue of continued murders of Black Trans women, by our own black men. I was uncomfortable because by virtue of my being Cis (non-trans) I have a level of inherent safety, even as a queer, working-class black man. The most profound and simple thing I heard last night that will sit with me is "to interrogate" myself. I need to constantly and consistently reflect and correct myself on how I am contributing to violence against trans people, and what are the real world applications of my solidarity. It's not enough to speak it. We have to be it. We have to share our wealth, extend our privileges as cis people while our Trans family is under attack. We have to love the people we say we do in action, in thought, in practice--and this must precede and follow public displays of solidarity where there are cameras and microphones because at night, I walk home unafraid--or at least more likely to actually get home than my trans friends. We are figuring this out together, but I'm not the one dying because of my gender (or perceived gender). I for one, am committed to more, to a world where trans people are celebrated, loved, and they live, fully without the threat of violence from the very people they show up for day after day, movement after movement, moment after moment. #TransLivesMatter #BuildBlackFutures (at Downtown Brooklyn)