• We condemn the U.S. State’s use of our pain and trauma to spread Islamophobia in order to further an agenda of U.S. Imperialism; pitting communities of color against each other.
• We see safety as an investment in our communities, which means a direct divestment in police and ICE. We are in need of resources like quality healthcare, education, housing, jobs and support for our businesses.
• We are already targets of transphobia, homophobia, and racism. We need our families, chosen fa...
• We condemn the U.S. State’s use of our pain and trauma to spread Islamophobia in order to further an agenda of U.S. Imperialism; pitting communities of color against each other.
• We see safety as an investment in our communities, which means a direct divestment in police and ICE. We are in need of resources like quality healthcare, education, housing, jobs and support for our businesses.
• We are already targets of transphobia, homophobia, and racism. We need our families, chosen families and communities to love us and hold us for all that we are - brown, black, trans, queer, gay, lesbian, bi, womyn, femme.
• Healing from the violence on our bodies and our hearts is only possible by being together and having conversations about our futures. Every time we’re together is an opportunity to organize, to resist and to love. Healing is not possible without justice, and so we seek the abolition of systems that continue to target our people.
• We situate this attack at Pulse nightclub within the larger context of violence that queer and trans people of color experience on a daily basis. A call to end violence against us is a call to acknowledge that violence in systems such as education, media, economy, prison industrial-complex, ICE, military industrial-complex, and all other institutions that deny us our humanity.