A protester stands among others in the rain, looking at the viewer and holding a sign featuring a raised fist in brown and rainbow colors, and text in all caps reading “My melanin is not a threat”, “Trump Makes Amerikkka Hate Again”, and “Amerikkka Was Never Great”.
Racism

Responding to Racism

[Image: San Francisco protest of Donald Trump’s first inauguration, January 2017.]

In my latest post for Medium, I share how I’m coping as a Black trans person in the US, in light of Donald Trump’s recent display of blatant racism.

Here’s a link to bypass the paywall:

https://funcrunch.medium.com/responding-to-racism-df538790007f?sk=3f7dd91ee85696dff94aea24b4010314

(Note: This post would have gone up sooner, but the Medium publication I submitted it to – which has published my work several times in the past – didn’t respond for several days. So I pulled it and published it on my own.)