#tpoc

Feel free to choose names that connect you to your culture/heritage, feel free to transition in ways that connect to/relate to your race/ethnicity and don't let "white culture" define your transition.

This is not to say you cannot choose traditionally "white" names, or transition in ways that don't connect to your heritage: its to say don't let racism force you to do those things, do those things only if they feel right for you and for nothing else.

Do not let "white culture" (or white people!) define whether you're gender/non/conforming (especially since, depending on your culture, 'conforming' to gender may look very different than whites expect it to!), or whether your name/hairstyle/new clothes is cool and affirming.

Faces and Phases by Zanele Muholi

Begun in 2006, Faces and Phases is an ongoing series of photographic portraits of Black lesbians and transgender individuals Muholi has met in South Africa and beyond. The portraits work as a visual statement as well as an archive, presenting and preserving an often abused and ostracized community through visual records.

Ahha, took me too many days but I have found the post where I coined it and the addition made in the transgender dictionary with said definition!

This will be a tag that I hope stay primarily trans people of color talking about their experiences, though white users can post in it (as with pretty much any tag) if it's relevant to the topic at hand.Overall though I want this to be a spot where trans voices of color can speak up and be found, and also find each other in these talks.

LIVE. WORK. POSE. - Angel Evangelista Martínez 🏳️‍⚧️

Happy Pride!

pov: we’re snuggling in bed and i’m coming in for a kiss 💕

(Editor's note: Bily Tipton was an American jazz musician. Although he lived his adult life as a man, it was discovered after his death in 1989 that he was assigned female at birth.)

I hid this National Enquirer in our house like it was a Playboy magazine, so I could come home and look at it. And I stopped praying to God every day, because at least I then had a role model in Billy Tipton.

Billy died in poverty before his time because he didn't want to seek medical intervention to blow his cover. And still, just learning about him gave me a grounding to know that I wasn't crazy. There are people out there like me, that I can relate to, and I can figure out hopefully how to move forward.”