‘What our transcestors can teach us about mobilising change this Trans+ History Week’

Jude Guaitamacchi (Image: Stephanie Dreams Photography)

On 6 July 2019 it was Pride in London. I walked through street parties in Soho holding a placard with an iconic image of Marsha P. Johnson above my head. People were dancing, drinking, glitter everywhere. As I walked through the crowd’s people’s eyes widened with curiosity, or lit up with recognition. I must have retold the story of the Stonewall Riots over and over that day as partygoers stopped me to ask me who the person in the picture was. I spoke about trans women like Marsha and Sylvia Rivera, who were at the forefront of the 1969 uprising at the Stonewall Inn and helped ignite the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, incredible women that were part of the reason we were all there that day. 

Pride

READ MORE OF THIS POST AT Attitude