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From YouTube: Trans Equity Summit (keynote 1)
Description
Emcee: Quinn Villagomez
Introducing the Stonewall Oral History Project: Mariah Cannon
Keynote Speaker: Micky B
http://www.minneapolismn.gov/coordinator/Equity/TransgenderEquity/index.htm
A
Lunch
so
welcome
back
and
for
those
of
you
that
are
joining
us
today
we
have
the
honor
of
watching
the
premiere
of
the
division
of
race
and
equities
Stonewall.
All
the
history
project
I
want
I'd
like
to
introduce
Mariah,
cannon
and
urban
scholar
and
intern
with
the
division
of
race
and
equity,
and
they
will
tell
us
about
the
project.
So
please
give
your
hands
up.
Ryan
cannon.
B
B
Everyone
is
facing
race,
your
experiences
and
we
hope
that
it
will
uplift
you
and
the
black
indigenous
people
of
color,
transgender
and
gender
non-conforming
community,
the
Stonewall
oral
history
project,
uplifts,
the
voices
and
the
lived
experiences
of
by
pop
trans
and
GMC
folks
as
a
community
leading
the
uprising
and
empowering
us
to
continue
the
legacy
of
our
ancestors,
the
bye
pop
trans
and
GMC
community
own
their
narratives
and
retells
the
impact
of
the
Stonewall
uprising.
In
a
way
that
brings
our
existences
to
the
front
of
the
fight
for
liberation
in
the
Twin
Cities.
B
Here
we
will
recognize
the
truth
of
the
past
and
connect
with
the
present
experiences
of
bipod,
transit
and
GMC
folks,
authentically
and
artistically
expressing
realities,
joy
and
visions
for
the
future.
The
memory
of
the
Stonewall
oral
history
project
much
like
the
uprising.
It
tends
to
live
as
an
encouragement
to
continue
growing
the
support
and
aspiration
to
own
liberation
and
the
bipod
trans
and
GMC
community.
Please
well
I
like
to
welcome
you
to
the
stage
to
discuss
more
about
the
project.
They
were
the
videographer
and
we
appreciate
them
so
much.
C
Thanks
Ryan
I
like
to
give
a
shout
out
some
random
track
and
father
jams,
the
whole
team
that
came
together
to
make
this
come
together
at
the
last
minute.
You
really
did
it
I
know
they're
done
with
me
back
and
forth,
trying
to
figure
it
out,
but
this
project
is
really
important
to
me.
I
would
like
to
thank
for
the
people,
think
the
people
who
rode
to
get
me
into
the
city
system
so
that
you
can
have
the
community
that
reflects
what
we're
talking
about
actually
be
the
person
that's
producing
and
directing
the
video.
C
So
thank
you
all
for
having
me
a
part
of
it.
His
system
was
really
hard
to
get
into,
and
it's
like
a
lot
of
bureaucracy
and
all
that,
but
y'all
were
really
supportive
and
we're
gonna
get
through
it
together
and
I'm
happy
to
be
in
this
room.
So
the
only
thing
I
really
have
to
say
about
it
is
there's
three
films.
C
The
first
one
you're
gonna,
see
our
interviews
so
as
a
team
we're
working
to
mostly
track
and
Mariah
and
baggage
as
we're
working
to
get
people
to
be
interviewed
to
talk
about
reflecting
on
snow
along
50
years
later
us
reflecting
on
it.
And
then
there
is
the
second
video
is
a
roundtable.
It's
not
really.
C
The
end
I
slice,
their
poems
together
and
really
the
last
video
is
my
favorite
and
it's
so
powerful
and
amazing
and
beautiful
to
see
the
intergenerational
mix
looking
back
at
stone,
while
looking
at
us
now
also
hearing
Barney's,
voice
and
andrew
jenkins
voice,
and
it's
just
it's
amazing.
So
it's
looking
like
the
struggles
that
we
go
through,
but
then
also
looking
at
the
healing,
and
why
are
we
fighting
and
it's
again
a
higher
vibration
and
rocky
really
embodies
that
and
I
feel.
E
F
Someone
builds
like,
like
a
ghost,
that's
trying
to
like
break
in
the
veil,
to
speak
to
us
again.
The
impact
that
I
feel
from
it
is
like
seeing
articles
in
The
Economist
about
how
Minneapolis
is
one
of
the
most
progressive
cities
in
America
and
then
a
month
later,
seeing
another
article
about
we
have
the
biggest
racial
housing
inequity
in
America.
G
G
I
Johnson
to
be
a
descendant
of
Stonewall
means
that
I
have
a
legacy
to
follow.
That
I
have
a
responsibility
to
my
ancestors
that
I
have
a
responsibility
to
the
future
generations
to
do
my
very
best
to
ensure
that
the
people
that
I
serve
and
the
communities
that
I'm
engaged
with
have
full
access
and
equity
I.
Don't.
J
H
E
E
Hello,
my
black
and
brown-
he,
oh
so
we're
gonna
get
into
a
conversation.
Where
are
you
existing
in
this
space
of
Minnesota
Twin
Cities?
It
is
50
years
of
Stonewall,
yes,
but
us
as
POC
identified
trans
and
GNC
folks.
How
do
you
think
we're
existing
as
some
people's
today
I?
Don't
think
we
too
far
from
where.
I
Second
law
well,
I
feel,
like
you
know,
there's
still
some
of
the
same
economic
in
housing
and
job
discrimination
and
existed.
That
I
feel,
like
our
people,
are
vital,
they're
important,
we're
important
and
fill
us
coming
together
and
then,
knowing
that
we
still
have
a
lot
of
work
together.
A
lot
of
places
to
cover
and
a
lot
of
people
to
make
sure
aren't
left
out.
G
G
M
I
don't
all
years
ago,
I
don't
think
mom
just
changed.
I
feel
like
this
is
really
changing.
It's
like
you,
like,
almost
like
we've
gone
back
50
years
ago.
You
know
I
feel
like
because
really,
how
much
have
we
improved?
You
know,
especially
for
black.
You
know,
brown
trans
communities.
You
know
I
mean
it's
tiring
to
make
this
fight
to
prove
ourselves
and
that
we
need
some
help.
We
need
to
improve
our
city,
but
we
get
rebuffed.
We
get
ignoble,
I.
N
Think
I
was
an
adult
before
I
realized
that
a
trans
woman
could
be
anything
other
than
other
than
a
porn
star
and
I
didn't
hear
about
I
didn't
hear
about
stone.
Long
till
I
was
an
adult
I
had
to
do
that.
My
own,
studying
to
even
figure
out
that
that
we
were
the
ones
that
started
the
movement
and
the
first
I.
O
One
thing
that
I
will
say
that
makes
our
cities
special
and
very
different
than
anywhere
else
in
the
world
is
that
this
is
the
only
place
where
not
only
one
but
two
black
trans
people
are
elected
into
office,
saying
there
is
nowhere
else
in
the
country
or
the
world
where
you
have
more
than
one
trans
person
on
an
elected
legislative
body.
If.
L
O
Body
of
13,
and
so
what
that
means
is
that
Andrea
and
I
are
changing.
The
kind
of
conversations
are
happening
within
city
government
and
city
of
Minneapolis,
and
so
so,
like
the
struggle
is
still
there,
but
I
try
every
single
day
to
never
take
for
granted
the
fact
that
I'm
in
a
position
of
power
and
privilege,
and
that
it
is
my
responsibility
to
do
work
there.
I.
K
G
G
G
The
best
pizza,
water
and
scream
in
the
streets
we
converse
about
the
best
conversation
starters
to
use
with
butterflies,
vs.
dragonflies.
We
scheme
in
the
name
of
both
accountability
and
abundance.
I'm,
just
saying,
we've
rolled
on
wooden
floors
holding
hands
as
daya
helps
us
and
body
broke
rules,
then,
with
a
command
from
our
most
graceful.
We
spark
like
literally
ignites,
into
flames,
some
real
fire
bathing
realness
and
what.
G
G
The
embodiment
of
that
love
clear
as
it
go
active
when
clay
is
called
for,
we
mold
into
the
cracks
becoming
stronger
than
soil
and
brick.
Cleaner,
has
an
omnipresent
when
winds
are
whispered
forth.
We
formed
his
affairs
and
flocks
aware
here
needs
to
flee.
Cleaner,
has
an
essential
but
look
to
the
sky
for
rain,
and
we
will
be
boiling
our
very
tears
in
the
part
queer
as
in
destructive
queer
as
it
meet
us
on
the
front
lines.
E
A
Mickey
is
a
member
of
Southerners
on
a
new
ground,
2018
Atlanta
area
and
Marshall
and
2019
House
of
pentacles
filmer
fellow
Mickey
has
organized
trans
communities
across
the
south
as
the
first
lead
of
the
TLC
at
song
program.
In
a
previous
role,
Mickey
Corps
organized
demonstrations
against
HB
2
in
North
Carolina,
how
the
trans
Leadership
Summit
in
Nashville,
Tennessee
and
published
the
grapevine
of
community
reports
of
pressing
issues
tgd
empty
southerners.
Currently
Mickey
is
a
national
organizer
for
the
transgender
Law
Center.
A
In
this
role,
Mickey
coordinates
a
coalition
addressing
solutions
to
criminalization
led
by
black
indigenous
and
migrated
trans
leaders.
Mickey
is
simultaneously
building
leadership,
networks
and
healing
justice
for
black
trans
fence
through
the
black
transit
circles.
Project
founded
by
raquel
Bellas
Mickey
B
is
a
proud,
bisexual,
Scorpio,
but
living
and
loving
in
Atlanta
Georgia
a
fun
fact.
Mickey
loves
five
plant-based
food.
After
long
they
have
a
bogey
in
resistance
to
the
police.
The
police,
employees,
states
so
I
think
they're
gonna
get
some
stuff
ready
here,
but
please
welcome
to
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Mickey
B.
G
P
You
super
amazing
and
beautiful
I
passed
the
gold
star
that
prince
has,
and
that
was
really
cool
Minneapolis,
knowing
more
about
y'all
more
about
what's
important
to
y'all.
What
makes
you
you
why'd!
You
choose
to
live
in
this
place
that
gets
really
cold.
I'm
gonna
keep
making
fun
of
y'all
because
I
live
in
Atlanta.
P
K
P
G
P
K
P
So,
just
to
give
you
a
little
bit
of
an
overview
of
what
we're
going
to
talk
about,
so
you
can
plan
on
your
favorite
parts,
we're
going
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
some
of
my
personal
life
and
how
I
took
a
lot
of
experiences
that
I
had
and
had
to
analyze
them
to
figure
out
what
sort
of
my
political
consciousness
looked
like.
What
was
important
to
me
was
a
values
for
me.
P
P
P
A
term
that's
been
long
and
used
in
feminist
circles,
honestly,
no
Latinos,
who
first
coined
it
anytime,
you
ask
any
feminist
if
they
coined
it.
They
usually
reply
with.
Well,
that's
like
claiming
ownership
of
World
War,
two
right,
there's
so
many
things
involved.
So
many
steps
I
had
been
to
get
to
this
point
together
this
consciousness.
Who
could
really
claim
it
a
lot
of
people
attributed
to
audre
Lorde's?
P
N
P
I
was
born
in
Germany
to
folks
who
were
in
the
army
at
the
time
you're
on
an
American
military
base,
but
my
folks
are
from
Albany
Georgia
Southwest
Georgia
and
if
you
know
anything
about
Albany,
you
probably
know
that
it
is
the
seat
of
some
of
the
civil
rights
struggles
that
happened
in
the
song.
My
grandmother
works
at
the
Albany
Civil
Rights
Museum.
Now,
with
her
gay
best
friend.
She
left
and
tell
me
about
her
gay
best
friend,
very
nice
and.
P
Albany
is
also
a
place
where
I
learned
what
class
was
and
where
I
learned
what
race
was
spending.
Every
summer
there
with
my
grandmother,
she
worked
in
factories
most
of
her
life
in
textile
factories
and
then
before
that
my
family
was
mostly
just
working
odd
jobs.
So
I
came
to
understand
that
okay,
my
family's
class
background
is
different
than
other
people.
Okay,.
G
P
I
didn't
quite
understand
what
that
meant
growing
up
and,
as
I
said,
my
dad
was
in
the
army,
so
we
traveled
a
lot
from
city
to
city
when
I
came
stateside,
I
first
came
to
Fort
Bragg
outside
of
Fayetteville
North
Carolina,
and
then
we
came
to
Fort,
Knox
and
every
morning
on
the
way
to
school.
I
kid
you
not
like
our
bus
went
right
in
front
of
the
gold
ball.
So
I
had
this
really
jarring
view.
P
P
P
Yeah,
and
so
there
was
so
much
work
that
went
into
being
able
to
cheer
and
recognize
those
identifications
right,
people
move
political
consciousness
to
be
able
to
say
this
label
means
this
thing.
It
means
I'm
a
part
of
this
community.
It
means
that
I
deserve
these
protections.
It
means
that
you
should
respect
me
right,
so
I'm
really
appreciative
of
that
work
that
led
to
that
and
allowed
us
to
come
to
this
point
where
we
get
to
be
this
alphabet
game.
P
And
also
I'm
really
appreciative
of
the
ways
that
we
as
a
generation
have
been
able
to
redefine
what
some
of
these
labels
mean
right.
So
particularly
for
folks
who
identify
as
bisexual.
This
historically
meant.
You
were
only
attracted
to
sister,
Newman
and
cisgendered
women
right,
but
actually
trans
people
have
always
existed.
Non-Binary
people
have
always
existed
and
bisexual
people
have
always
been
finding
us
hot.