The Black Trans Brilliance of Oluchi Omeoga - The Face
The co-founder of Minnesota-based non-profit Black Visions Collective tells us about fighting for Black liberation and the trans individuals
Whenever we look at social movements, it’s always those who are most at the margins who are actually doing the work. At Stonewall, we saw trans women of colour and gender nonconforming people of colour at the forefront, at the frontlines pushing people to dream of something new. Because trans women of colour have that lens of actually dreaming of a world where their body that has been so policed is actually celebrated and validated, they can imagine a world where police aren’t relied upon. Trans people are always the stewards of our social movements, because our systems of oppression oppress them in a specific way, especially trans people of colour. It’s necessary to talk about this because not only do they get oppressed by capitalism, but also patriarchy and racism.
