Between 2021 and 2025, Black nonbinary artist Sage Ni’Ja Whitson visited 91 locations across 15 states – in all of these sites a trans, gender nonconforming, or intersex individual had died, either by murder or suicide. At each site they conducted a ceremony of their own to bear witness to what had happened there.
“It was very challenging in ways that I’m continuing to mend from and rest with,” they said. “It is not ‘inexpensive’ on my body and spirit. That cost I knew would be there.”
I’ll invent a boogie, a rain dance, a prayer, a ceremony, which is very taxing upon me, then you all bow down to me as the artist.
Currently showing at Los Angeles’s California African American Museum (CAAM) is These Waking Glories, Whitson’s solo show displaying a variety of photos and other pieces in conjunction with these ceremonies. A moving and important bearing of witness to the violence that continues to ravage the communities of both racial and gender minorities, it is a powerful show that should be experienced.
Now, as we all know, some considerable portion of these dead are sex workers. Or, to use older language, trannies who may or may not have been wholly open about physical matters before proferring. Or even during. They are indeed individual and precious snowflakes because all humans are that. But tranny tart is a risky profession. It’s not obvious that tranny, as tranny, nor black, has much to do with it.
But, you know, art…..
“A moving and important bearing of witness to the violence that continues to ravage the communities of both racial and gender minorities…”
Does it include all the recent murders by trannies?
There oughta be a law to restrict the number of victim cards available to an individual to just one.
Wot no intersectional poker?
Deranged people draw more problems and violence upon themselves than normies. News at 11.
I think many men, thinking they’d just bought pussy and presented with cock, would not be best pleased. In their cups, they may act on it.
It’s not much of a stretch to imagine that black men, not exactly famous for their self-control, expecting pussy and finding themselves in that embarrassing albeit self-inflicted position might react with extreme prejudice.
I’d set the spread on murders of transgenders falling into that category at around 70-75%
“Black nonbinary artist Sage Ni’Ja Whitson”
That sounds like something Peter Simple would have created. Perhaps he has, from beyond the grave.
Currently showing at Los Angeles’s California African American Museum (CAAM)
Across from the exhibit about the history of Black (sic) space flight, and next to the one about all those Nobel Prizes they’ve won in Physics, surely.
What do you call someone with both Black fatigue and Tranny fatigue?
Sane.
I do hope he is not exploiting these sad deaths for personal gain.
There is some distinction.