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Oregon sex workers advocate for decriminalization, in their own words

Oregon sex workers advocate for decriminalization, in their own words
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This Black trans activist is fighting to shield her community from an epidemic of violence


This Black trans activist is fighting to shield her community from an epidemic of violence
CNN
2/20/2021
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As a teenage runaway in the foster care system and forced into homelessness, Vanessa Warri's childhood was marked by trauma -- but she's overcoming her early circumstances despite the odds.
"Black transgender women rarely make it past 35," she said. "Elders in my community fought and marched and sacrificed and advocated in the hopes that one day, a young trans person could be able to walk in spaces they couldn't." 
The 30-year-old is now a social welfare MSW/PhD candidate at UCLA. In many ways, Warri knows she's an exception to an often cruel reality for many Black transgender youth and women.

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This Black trans activist is fighting to shield her community from an epidemic of violence

This Black trans activist is fighting to shield her community from an epidemic of violence
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BLM activists: Meet 9 people behind the Black Lives Matter movement


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Over generations in America, the movement for civil rights and racial progress has been carried and organized by legions of dedicated Black women.
After the killing of Breonna Taylor by police in Louisville, Kentucky, in March 2020, it was largely the work of Black women that brought the case nationwide attention, as they took to the streets imploring as many people as possible to "say her name."
Nupol Kiazolu, 20, is one of these women, a self-described member of the "Trayvon Martin Generation."
As a sixth grader, she led a silent protest at her middle school. Armed with a bag of Skittles and a bottle of iced tea -- which Trayvon was carrying when he was killed nearly nine years ago -- and wearing a hoodie with the message "Do I Look Suspicious?" written on the back, Kiazolu said she understood at an early age the mere act of existing while Black could be deadly.

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