Bank of Activists You Should Know
(Send in your suggestions to keep our Bank flooooowing!)

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Meet Kye Allums
Meet Lawrence Richardson
​and Austen Hartke
Meet Lourdes Ashley Hunter
Meet Janet Mock
Meet Dean Spade
Meet Elle Hearnes

Meet Kai Green

​Meet Kortney Ryan Ziegler

Articles to Choose from

Choose any one reading below (click the title and you will be taken to the reading):
  1. Maggie Astor: "Violence Against Transgender People Is on the Rise, Advocates Say" (2017)***
  2. Judith Butler: "Why Do Men Kill Trans Women? Gender Theorist Judith Butler Explain" (2015)***
  3. Kim Case and S. Colton Meier: "Developing Allies to Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Youth: Training for Counselors and Educators" (2014)
  4. Stephanie Fairyington: "Two Decades After Brandon Teena's Murder, a Look Back at Falls City" (2013)*** [you might also choose instead to watch the film, Boys Don't Cry]
  5. Leslie Feinberg: "Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come" (1992)
  6. Jessi Gan: " 'Still at the Back of the Bus': Silvia Rivera's Struggle" (2007)
  7. Kai Green: "Navigating Masculinity as a Black Transman: 'I will never straighten out my wrist'" (2013)***
  8. Charles Huey Greene: "Skins Hiding" (2017)***
  9. Julia Johnson: "Cisgender Privilege, Intersectionality, and the Criminalization of CeCe McDonald: Why Intercultural Communication Needs Transgender Studies" (2013)***
  10. Sharon Doetsch-Kidder: "'My Story is Really Not Mine':  An Interview with Latina Trans Activist Ruby Bracamonte" (2011)
  11. Emi Koyama: "The Transfeminist Manifesto" (2001)
  12. Heidi Levitt and Maria Ippolito: "Being Transgender: The Experience of Transgender Identity Development" (2014)
  13. Kylan Mattias de Vries: "Transgender People of Color at the Center: Conceptualizing a New Intersectional Model" (2014)
  14. J Mase III: "Casting Prayers for Survival: Towards a Black Trans Theology" (2017)***
  15. CeCe McDonald, Kai M. Green, and Treva C. Ellison: "An Introduction: When Remembering Forgets, What Forgetting Remembers" (2017)***
  16. Wendy McKenna and Suzanne Kessler: "Transgendering: Blurring the Boundaries of Gender" (2006)
  17. Janet Mock: Excerpt from the book, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More (2014)
  18. Lisa Jean Moore and Paisley Currah: "Legally Sexed: Birth Certificates and Transgender Citizens" (2015)
  19. Raul Reyes: "A Forgotten Latina Trailblazer: LGBT Activist Sylvia Rivera" (2015)***
  20. Hugh Ryan: "Power to the People: Exploring Marsha P. Johnson's Queer Liberation" (2017)***
  21. Anneliese Singh: "Transgender Youth of Color and Resilience: Negotiating Oppression and Finding Support" (2013)
  22. Anneliese Singh and Vel McKleroy: “ 'Just Getting Out of Bed Is a Revolutionary Act': The Resilience of Transgender People of Color Who Have Survived Traumatic Life Events" (2011)
  23. Emily Skidmore: "'Constructing the Good Transsexual': Christine Jorgensen, Whiteness, and Heteronormativity in the Mid-20th Century Press" (2011)
  24. Dean Spade:  "Trans Law and Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape" (2015)
  25. Dean Spade: "Rethinking Transphobia and Power--- Beyond a Rights Framework" (2015)
  26. Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley: "Songs for Ezili: Vodou Epistemologies of (Trans)gender" (2011)
  27. Transgender Law Center: "Peeing in Peace: A Resource Guide for Transgender Activists and Allies" (2005) [Read any ONE chapter here]​

Videos to Choose From

You can also choose to watch a lecture vs. reading an article.  Your lecture choices are listed below.
Watch on your own on Netflix:
​The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Democracy Now's Broadcast: "Black Trans Bodies Are Under Attack: Activist CeCe McDonald, Actress Laverne Cox Speak Out" [Watch all FOUR SEGMENTS]
"Can we survive mainstreaming? Trans politics and criminal punishment reform" by Dean Spade
"A World Without Cages" by Joshua Allen
"The Bathroom Battlefield" by Feminist Frequency
Please see the syllabus for your writing assignment.
Please note that the reading list on this webpage will be continually updated. Feel free to make suggestions!  You will also note that Jigsaw readings have been repeated across multiple units since the writers are not addressing single issues.  Please note: you cannot read the same text twice simply because it reappears in our jigsaw choices.

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