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From YouTube: Trans Equity Summit (keynote 2)
Description
Emcee: Quinn Villagomez
Keynote Speaker: Micky B
Closing Remarks: Councilmember Phillipe Cunningham
http://www.minneapolismn.gov/coordinator/Equity/TransgenderEquity/index.htm
A
Highly
racist
imagery
right,
if
we
think
about
the
crows
and
Dumbo,
if
we
think
about
any
type
of
character
that
was
made
so
make
fun
of
black
folks
included
in
there
and
performed
with
it.
As
a
backdrop-
and
it
was
a
really
interesting
conversation
to
have
with
folks
about
the
placement
of
military
recruitment,
centers
and
poor
and
black
areas,
particularly
right
and
I,
see
that,
particularly
as
a
key
area
that
we
need
to
investigate
in
terms
of
understanding
the
military,
industrial,
complex
and.
A
When
we
did
found
son
in
Frankfurt
Prime,
we
were
able
to
put
together
a
zine
called
kudzu,
because
it's
the
vine
that
took
over
the
south
and
it's
a
collection
of
short
stories-
poetry,
essays
artwork-
you
can
get
it
on
our
website.
If
you
want
to
check
it
out,
it's
artists
of
color
from
all
across
the
style.
A
To
make
the
connections
between
my
performance
work
and
my
on
the
ground,
organizing
work,
so
2014
was
also
the
year
that
Michael
Johnson,
a
young
black,
bisexual
wrestler
in
Kansas
City
Missouri
was
arrested,
particularly
for
HIV
criminalization
laws
right
and
so
in
this
state.
They
basically
said
that
we're
going
to
throw
you
in
jail.
If
you
do
not
have
proof
that
you
committed
you
communicated
to
your
partner.
A
A
It
really
got
me
fired
up
and
so
I
had
to
go
out
into
the
streets
and
design
some
type
of
way
for
people
to
engage
in
a
conversation
about
HIV,
and
so
my
friends
and
I
put
together
this
bed
that
you
see-
and
you
just
walked
around
the
mall
with
this
on
our
backs
literally
and
had
people
ask
us:
why
are
you
carrying
a
mattress
with
the
aedra
turn
on
it?
Oh,
you
want
to
know.
Let's
talk
about
this
vans
case.
Let's
talk
about
how
you
think
about
it.
A
A
A
A
And
we're
able
to
turn
our
power
back
into
ourselves
right.
We're
able
to
reach
out
into
our
into
our
communities.
I
was
able
to
tour
seven
different
places
all
over
the
South
interviewing
135
trans
people
across
the
South
on
what
we're
priority
issues
for
you.
How
are
you
like
turning
power
back
for
yourselves,
and
this
resulted
in
the
grapevine
report
which
you
can
find
on
the
transgender
Law
Center
website,
but
I'm
really
proud
of
that
report?
It's
one
of
the
only
community
reports
that
exists
on
southern
trans
G&C.
Folks,
it's
done
by
community
members.
A
And
because
of
some
of
the
findings
and
that
report
specifically
around
violence
in
jails,
we
were
able
to
start
a
campaign
called
the
black
mamas
bail
out.
The
folks
have
heard
of
those.
This
was
an
effort
to
bail
out
black
mothers,
black
films,
Black
Mountain,
binary
folks,
black
trans
women
on
Mother's
Day,
so
they
could
be
returned
to
their
families,
because
we
view
black
matriarchs
as
the
head
of
the
family.
We
view
these
people
as
being
integral
to
our
communities
right
when
folks
are
being
attacked.
A
B
A
A
And
so
I
include
this
just
to
say
that
your
efforts
do
lead
up
to
something,
even
if
you
think
that
your
efforts
are
only
only
a
small
change,
only
a
small
reform,
only
a
small
window,
a
small
opening
that
small
opening
is
enough.
It
is
a
crack
and
a
huge
system
and
we
need
all
the
cracks
we
can
get
to
make.
This
thing
break.
A
A
Over
the
killings
of
black
trans
women,
in
her
City
protections
for
LGBTQ
folks,
in
housing
and
in
job-related
affairs
and
I'm
really
proud
of
this,
because
there
are
very
few
programs
across
the
country
that
focus
on
the
leadership
development
of
black
trans
women,
not
treating
black
trans
women
as
victims
or
as
clients
or
as
consumers
of
some
medical
system,
but
actually
positioning
us
to
be.
The
experts
actually
positioning
us
to
be
leaders
to
be
political
actors.
A
A
That
really
named
key
demands
that
we
need
to
be
pushing
for
a
nationwide.
However,
it
didn't
go
as
deep
as
it
could
have
done
in
terms
of
gender
and
it
specifically
trans
and
non-binary
black
folks
right.
We
need
to
fix
that
and
so
I'm
working
on
an
agenda
along
with
indigenous
folks
folks,
who
lead
migrant
justice
workbooks
to
work
on
disability,
justice,
folks
who
lead
organizing
for
sex
workers
and
folks
who
lead
organizing
around
the
criminalizing
HIV
we're
all
gathering
as
a
coalition
to
put
together
an
agenda.
A
She
was
the
one
who
brought
the
testimony
against
those
six
white
men
who
started
the
race
riots
and
when
they
found
out
that
she
was
transgender,
they
ran
her
out
of
town.
She
was
running
a
house
for
formerly
enslaved
black
girls
to
be
able
to
have
Shelton
to
be
able
to
have
food
to
be
able
to
have
safety.
A
A
Him
about
her
when
I
was
doing
some
research
and
I
can
barely
find
anything
about
her.
To
be
honest,
but
her
story
deserves
to
be
told
than
the
less
because
there
are
so
many
stories
of
trans
trailblazers
across
the
South
that
are
untold,
because
the
language
was
not
there,
because
people
did
not
want
our
stories
to
be.
B
C
A
A
B
B
A
B
A
I
have
to
make
sure
that
I
include
this
majors,
giving
circles
she's
one
of
our
trans
elders.
If
you
know
about
someone,
you
know
this
major,
she
does
not
have
health
insurance.
She
was
not
a
401k,
and
so
it
is
our
duty
at
her
community
to
support
her
preferred
livelihood
and
so
I
make
sure
to
include
this
in
every
presentation
that
I
give.
So
you
can
make
sure
that
you
donate
even
a
dollar
to
miss
major.
That
would
be
wonderful,
and
if
you
tell
her
in
a
bit,
Mickey
says
you.
She
will
really
like
that.
B
B
B
C
Break
through
in
order
to
that
trans
people
actually
exist
in
the
gym,
because
I
had
a
lady
to
be
when
I
was
at
the
counter
right
to
go
in
anyway.
Wouldn't
have
trans
people
and
she's
like
giving
her
name
and
she's
like
come
here.
We
come
here
in
the
day.
You
know
at
some
point:
I
don't
want
to
be
in
the
winter
zone,
so.
A
B
D
A
Would
be
definitely
ran
into
that
issue
through
the
black
bombers
bailouts,
we're
in
different
sites
folks
had
to
do
letter-writing
campaigns
to
find
out
who
was
who
was
locked
up
in
some
cases
we
just
knew
through
community
and
one
experiment.
Someone
got
there,
you're
like
license
or
whatever
online
so
like
become
a
reverend,
and
so
they
used
that.
A
Sometimes
and
I
think
also,
it
helps
to
be
able
to
do
a
training
with
those
folks
like
hey,
I,
really
hate
toting
out
training,
police
or
people
who,
like
run
prisons
and
things,
but
I
do
think
that
in
those
instances
it's
really
helpful
to
have
people
on
the
inside
who
actually
know
who
trans
people
are
right.
We
can
identify.
Folks
in
are
like.
Oh,
this
person
came
in
with
a
wig.
Let
me
make
sure
that
I'm
correct
in
their
pronouns
things
like
that.
A
A
Question
house
today,
different
from
50
years
ago,
50
years
ago,
we
did
not
have
people
in
positions
of
power.
50
years
ago
we
did
not
have
media
that
was
about
us
created
by
us
ie
posed
50
years
ago.
We
did
not
have
support
actually
for
some
of
these
nonprofits
that
trained
organizers
there.
That
money
was
not
fair
and
I
feel
like
partly
also
like
the
movement
for
black
lives,
really
opened
up
a
lot
of
conversations.
E
Councilman
Cunningham
sir
former
mayor
Betsy
Hodges
as
her
senior
policy
aid
for
education,
racial
equity
and
LGBTQ
rights.
He
also
previously
worked
with
youth
as
a
special
education
teacher
on
youth
worker
for
over
ten
years
as
a
policy
wonk
and
the
year's
community
advocate
cm.
Cunningham's
goals
are
to
break
intergenerational
cycles
of
poverty
and
violence
and
build
community
wealth
with
North
siders
already
living
in
the
community.
His
writings
have
been
published
in
the
guide
for
white
women
who
teach
black
boys
and
millennial
compact
with
America.
Please
welcome
the
councilmember
Philippe
Cunningham
to
the
state.
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Session
on
civic
engagement
and
I
happen
to
be
sitting
at
a
table
where
there
were
council
policy.
Eight
city
council
policy,
aides,
I,
was
like
woo
yelling
policy
work.
I
would
love
to
learn
more
about
that
I.
Think
I
want
a
job
doing
that
and
so
I
got
invited
after
that
to
come
to
City
Hall
and
there
I.
Just
by
chance
it
was
like
the
stars.
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