Meet the Organizers Offering Self-Defense Tools and Training to the Trans Community (them., Eva Reign) Interview with leaders from the Chicago-based collectives THORN and Molasses. Despite 2020 being one of the deadliest years on record for Black trans people, hardly enough attention has been given to one of the most direct means of curbing this …
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