I have served as administrative support for the TBTPB project through my role at Transfaith, so I have been watching and waiting on this project for more than a year now. The current timeline is that the book will ship February 1, 2020. In addition to the #TransphobiaIsASin campaign, today is also the first day to pre-order The Black Trans Prayer Book. Continue reading “Introduction: In Remembrance of Me” → Categories Book Event, Books Spiritual traditions have always been a rich resource for facing such overwhelming odds. The temptations are many from going numb to turning away, from giving in to despair to sacrificing ourselves for the cause. We feel so human and powerless in the face of it all. From gender to race to religion, there are many forces conspiring against us. There are no quick fixes to the many factors involved in transgender tragedy, from intimate partner violence to economic insecurity. That is long enough to have noticed patterns-not only about who is most frequently being killed, but also about how the rest of us are reacting to those deaths. As I compile these reflections, transgender communities have been holding vigils against anti-transgender violence on November 20 for twenty years now.
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