Comments on: reflections by a health care worker on the new orleans clinic http://www.raveneye.org/?p=1014 Women and gender queer of color ISSUES have been done to death, we want OUR LIVES*** (Lisa Factora-B) Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:09:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.raveneye.org/?p=1014&cpage=1#comment-354 admin Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:46:13 +0000 http://www.raveneye.org/?p=1014#comment-354 @woc may i post your response here? seriously. this couldnt be said too often: it was life and death, life and death for women of color (cis and trans) if NOWHC goes under over completely uninformed and slanderous statements about how their clinic runs and why. @woc
may i post your response here? seriously.

this couldnt be said too often:
it was life and death, life and death for women of color (cis and trans) if NOWHC goes under over completely uninformed and slanderous statements about how their clinic runs and why.

]]> By: woc http://www.raveneye.org/?p=1014&cpage=1#comment-350 woc Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:03:54 +0000 http://www.raveneye.org/?p=1014#comment-350 the thing is, a lot of people admitted they fucked up. They should have done their research before speaking b/c it was life and death, life and death for women of color (cis and trans) if NOWHC goes under over completely uninformed and slanderous statements about how their clinic runs and why. But they didn't. And the ones who actually talked to women in NOLA or were women in NOLA have apologized to Incite! and NOWHC. Other people, who consistently center themselves when we are talking about trans women have not only refused to apologize, they've taken no accountability for their actions and are still openly mocking people critiquing their approach. You're not gonna get an answer from them, tho you might get called names. I also want to point out that not only does Incite! work very hard to include ALL women (tho clearly there is work to be done for a lot of different women) but there are also already two online archives of trans women's experiences of health care done by trans women, there are two annual conferences on trans women's health that produce video for provider ed and there is a recent study on aging trans women's health needs online that was done by aging trans women and includes many of their personal stories. Often effective organizing means not re-inventing the wheel or disparaging people actually currently doing the work. A lot of the people slighted by me-centered organizing are the ones on the ground fighting those life or death battles for the whole community. the thing is, a lot of people admitted they fucked up. They should have done their research before speaking b/c it was life and death, life and death for women of color (cis and trans) if NOWHC goes under over completely uninformed and slanderous statements about how their clinic runs and why. But they didn’t. And the ones who actually talked to women in NOLA or were women in NOLA have apologized to Incite! and NOWHC. Other people, who consistently center themselves when we are talking about trans women have not only refused to apologize, they’ve taken no accountability for their actions and are still openly mocking people critiquing their approach. You’re not gonna get an answer from them, tho you might get called names.

I also want to point out that not only does Incite! work very hard to include ALL women (tho clearly there is work to be done for a lot of different women) but there are also already two online archives of trans women’s experiences of health care done by trans women, there are two annual conferences on trans women’s health that produce video for provider ed and there is a recent study on aging trans women’s health needs online that was done by aging trans women and includes many of their personal stories.

Often effective organizing means not re-inventing the wheel or disparaging people actually currently doing the work. A lot of the people slighted by me-centered organizing are the ones on the ground fighting those life or death battles for the whole community.

]]> By: With a bridge on my back http://www.raveneye.org/?p=1014&cpage=1#comment-344 With a bridge on my back Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:44:26 +0000 http://www.raveneye.org/?p=1014#comment-344 <i>i mean how are you in solidarity with twoc but you dont bother to talk to the twoc who are connected to incite! </i> I would love to hear an answer to this as well. i mean how are you in solidarity with twoc but you dont bother to talk to the twoc who are connected to incite!

I would love to hear an answer to this as well.

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