I believe that all the beautiful intersections of Black womanhood, Black queer women, Black disabled women, poor Black women, holds everything together. Liberation for Black women, especially trans Black women, is liberation for all of us because when you’re at the bottom and you rise, everyone else rises. Even though Black women save democracies, we don’t get to be people in a lot of the ways that other people do. The Democratic Party commodifies Black women and uses us as selling points. In person, on Election DayFifteen years ago, I got sick with Crohn’s disease and couldn’t work, and I lost my health care because the health care was through my job.

Source: New York Times October 29, 2020 17:37 UTC