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featured gallery for February 2020
Start Loving Us: Loving Positive Trans Women
In honor of LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN 2020, this web gallery features trans and gender nonconforming Artist Members celebrating the spectrum of their feminine beauty and power.
Kiara St. James reflects on loving and honoring Black Trans women's experiences and livelihoods below:
Black Trans women, it's time to start loving ourselves, respecting ourselves and redefining our boundaries. We are deserving of love and respect, but it starts with us believing that we are more than enough! As we move into a new year, we have the power to shift how we and the communities that we navigate see us. Walk in your truth unapologetically. Fix your crown whether you’re rocking a natural or a neon green wig. Know that you are a Queen. Let’s celebrate our Blackness in all of its rich hues, and remember that we have always been trailblazers and not followers, we have existed from the cradle of mother Africa and across all the lands. I want to encourage all my Black T girls to step into your power as a woman, as a beautiful melenated Goddess!
Start loving yourself even when it seems you are the only one who does. #StartLovingYourself #StartLovingUs
Resources:
Join Positive Women's Network #PWNCares Sister Circle, a new program designed specifically to offer social support and community-building for cis and trans women living with HIV.
Watch this "Positively Trans- Kiara St. James" interview video.
Read "The POZ 100: Celebrating Transgender, Gender-Nonconforming and Nonbinary Advocates" article.
Read POZ's "Mykki Blanco finds Power in Transparency" article.
Positively Trans- Transgender Law Center resources
New York Transgender Advocacy Group resources
Read "Why Language Matters: Facing HIV Stigma in Our Own Words" resource article.
Curator
Kiara St.James
Kiara St. James has been a community organizer and public speaker for over 20 years. She has been instrumental in changing discriminatory shelter policies that affected the Trans community, and has presented workshops concerning marginalized communities at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna and Austria, and at the United Nations, as well as many other conferences and academic institutions.
Kiara is the founder and executive director of the New York Transgender Advocacy Group. She was instrumental in the passage of GENDA in 2019.