I just finish the posting of highlighting CeCe McDonald as part of Trans Awareness Week for this week. This was the one of many people that I want to highlight, especially giving a priority for people of color.

I think for the several postings, I’m probably going to do a short little article about various resources that you can utilize within the transgender community and some current events that would be helpful as we go along in the holidays.

The other post that I can focus on is being together with everyone for the holidays. Within the LGBT community, this becomes really difficult to be with family that may not be accepting of your sexual orientation and/or gender identity. This also becomes even more difficult with the current events that have happened this year and COVID-19. Although it’s never easy to be with family, I think that if you have to be with family members, remember to give yourself space and to provide as much breaks as needed. If you can’t go home with your family, you can hang out with friends, virtually, through Zoom or plan socially distanced activities outside.

As far as social media, I would need to start by having people looking at these new posts and start a discussion with these resources that they’re seeing. Also, I would like to post my first video within the next week to highlight some of the blog posts that we’ve done so far and the current issues that are important at this time.

The next couple of posts that I will work on with the group project will be to focus on BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) individuals within the state of Minnesota. I want to start off by focusing on the state I’m currently residing because there are many stories of marginalized trans folks’ stories needed to be shared. The stories that I will be sharing will not be an end result. I will try and post additional resources for people to keep up with and to follow for future blog postings and videos.

The first story that I will focus on is CeCe McDonald. She is a trans black woman who’s originally from Chicago. During her time in Minneapolis, she was encountered by a group of people one night that shouted racial slurs and transphobic statements to her. It was to the point that a fight broke out and she defended herself by stabbing one of them to death. Although she tried to state this to the police, they decided that she committed a crime and sentenced her to a couple years in state prison. After her release, she started to become an advocate within the trans community and hold roundtable discussions at various conferences and events across the country. There’s also a documentary about her story online and through various streaming networks.

With future posts, I would like to share some of the historical figures that identified as transgender to people to know about the struggles that they’ve had to endure. Hopefully with these blog posts, this will be a movement for the community and allies.