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Nearly six months into the Trump administration’s intensified oil blockade, life in Cuba is becoming increasingly unlivable. Fuel imports have ground to a halt and without fuel, there is no public infrastructure. Buses that are the lifeblood of the city have disappeared from the roads. Hospital generators are running on fumes. Basic services to sustain life are no longer available. Across Havana, trash is piling up in the streets, causing disease and illness to spread like wildfire. Havana residents are under unprecedented pressure. Even when there have been grid, collapses in the past caused by hurricanes, residence could expect to have power for a few hours a day to cook food, bathe, wash their clothes, and charge their devices. Now, power outages that last more than 24 hours at a time are the norm. No electricity means no running water, no cooking, no refrigeration, and no relief from the heat. To make matters worse, as the crisis in Cuba leaves mainstream news cycle, the mutual aid that communities rely on is drying up with it—just as conditions continue to reach a new level of desperation. We’re still raising funds to send food and power stations directly to our comrades on the island. Every donation goes toward sending food, power stations, and other supplies to help Black trans folks (and their families!) endure another day despite unreliable access to electricity, water, transportation, or food. **DON’T MENTION CUBA** venmo: @BlackEdMatters cashapp: $KrKen paypal: @Krken00
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a month ago
Get to know one of our fearless leaders, Nomi Ramirez! Nomi is a black trans, Cuban woman and longtime organizer in Havana who helped co-found @redafrocubanatrans. So many people on and off the island have been a recipient of her support whether it be financial, nutritional, or emotional. Around the world it is the start of pride month, a recognition that was born out of the labor of trans women of color who historically and to this day have led the charge for queer and trans liberation. It’s important that we continue to honor the Black trans women who keep our communities fed, housed, and heard, recognized them for their contributions, and not just give them their flowers but make sure that they are taken care of. This clip is the first of four based on conversations with Nomi in April where she shares her reflections on being trans and Cuban and her dreams for the global trans community. We’ll be sharing more soon! We are still accepting donations to contribute to our food sovereignty fund, to send groceries to 20 Black trans community members and their families on the island. Link in bio!
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2 months ago
Ely Malik, a member of @redafrocubanatrans, talks about the difficulties of accessing HRT as a transgender person in Cuba. This video was recorded in April 2026; since then, very little oil and aid has entered Cuba, making access to medicine even more challenging. He explains that trans Cubans resort to the black market or international aid. However, trans care is rarely a priority of humanitarian aid and black market medication can be difficult to find and very expensive. “(For those of us who have jobs), it’s two months salary to buy hormones,” he explains, “and you still won’t have enough HRT for the year.” Today, in countries like the US and the UK, HRT is bioidentical, meaning that it is chemically the same as the hormones our bodies produce. Oftentimes, black market HRT is synthetic, meaning it is created in a lab. These chemical differences can mean that synthetic hormones may act differently in our bodies and can result in side effects that impact our transition timelines. “We feel the difference when HRT is brought to us from our international comrades— we feel better,” a member of RACT said.
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2 months ago
SHARE THIS POST! Our Cuban siblings are living through a crisis, a genocide of US imperial design that is reshaping daily life in ways that are difficult to quantify and impossible to overstate. Earlier this month Cuban officials reported that the island has officially run out of fuel. No fuel means longer and more frequent blackouts. Prolonged blackouts mean food spoils, water stops running, and people are forced to make impossible choices about how to survive and care for their loved ones. How do we put into words the physical and mental toll of generations of political persecution, economic violence, and collective punishment? For Black trans people, who are already navigating layered forms of marginalization, the impact is even sharper. In April during one of our mutual aid delegations we spoke to one of the members of @redafrocubanatrans about the reality under fuel shortages caused by Trump’s intensifying military blockade. This is what survival sounded like over a month ago, and since then conditions have only escalated. If you’re able, please continue to support directly. Every contribution helps people access food, care to our siblings, their families, and communities. **do NOT mention cuba!!** Cashapp: $krken Venmo: @BlackEdMatters Paypal: @Krken00 Zelle: DM for info!
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2 months ago
"I’ve been completely changed by the love that we've built together." 🥹 Follow for 3 new videos every week 🎬 For a deeper dive, watch Lexi & Zad's FULL INTERVIEW on YouTube! [Visual description: A couple sits on a vintage couch with floral wallpaper. Zad sits on the left. He is a Black trans man with short, curly hair, wearing a dark green button-up shirt and gray pants. Lexi sits on the right. She is a Black trans woman with slightly longer than shoulder length curly hair. She is wearing a black tank top that reads "Respect Black trans women, protect Black trans women, love Black trans women, thank Black trans women."] Transcript: Zad: I know there’s a lot of transfemmes that don’t know that they’re deserving of love in ways that are not extractive. I know there’s a lot of trans boys that feel like they have to perform a certain way, or a certain layer of masculinity, to be able to be in relationship. I say: try not to perform and see how it goes. I lowered my guards with Lexi. It really felt like I was discovering different parts of myself as I was…getting to know you. And, yeah. So, that’s how I felt about falling in love with you. Lexi: I was just like, “Oh. I’m, like, head over heels.” It just felt really special, but I’ve been completely changed by the love that Zad has showed me and the love that we’ve built together. We’ve been conditioned to experience transness or, like, queerness as this thing that we have to sort of, like, subdue in order to receive the love that we deserve. No, like…show up with all of it, and the people who are- who are there for you are gonna be the ones who stick with you, and those are the relationships that are going to really matter. Creator and Director: @kai.tillman Producers: @snackplease and @sellerton PR Manager: @the_ava_davis Social Media Consultants: @elle.deran and @ezramichelmusic Director of Photography: @sarahmakesmovies First AC: @c4mgurl Sound Operator: @niaquinialla_doc Gaffer: Vuk Lungulov-Klotz Grip PA: Jamie Simiele
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4 months ago
"I can't wait to grow old with you" 🥹 @lexicalentry @transzforma [Visual description: A couple sits on a vintage couch with floral wallpaper. Zad sits on the left. He is a Black trans man with short, curly hair, wearing a dark green button-up shirt and gray pants. Lexi sits on the right. She is a Black trans woman with slightly longer than shoulder length curly hair. She is wearing a black tank top that reads "respect Black trans women, protect Black trans women, love Black trans women, and thank Black trans women."] Transcript: Lexi: We have a lot of conversations where we are saying, like, "I can't wait to grow old with you." Like...when I met Zad, he didn't have this many gray hairs... Zad: (chuckles) Lexi: But now, like, I'm looking at him and I was like, "Oh my gosh, you look like a father." (laughs) And soon, like, you're gonna be, like, very salt and pepper. I can't wait to grow old with you, like- Zad: (chuckles) I'm excited for it. I'm like, "Bring it on." I don't even hide my white hairs anymore. I'm like, "Let's just rock with it." Lexi: It hits very differently as not just, like, to take it to, like, the reality of, like, trans people, but I'm turning thirty-five next year...and the, like, life expectancy for Black trans women is...thirty-five. And I- I- I'd never before, like, having the safety of our relationship and having the safety of the communities that we've built our lives around, thought about myself living to be forty...forty-five...fifty...and so yeah, I think about it every day. I look at him when I wake up, and I see, like, a new gray hair, and I'm like, "Oh my god. We're growing old. That's so exciting. Zad: Yeah, it is.
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5 months ago
it’s no exaggeration to say that 2025 put me through the fucking wringer, but it gave me a lot of love 🤲🏾💛
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7 months ago
I need to see more of the dolls on this trend 😌
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7 months ago
Portugal te amo, vamos voltar em breve 💛
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10 months ago
Part two of this video series because there’s still so much to say on the topic. In the first half I talked about identifiable information and how cops will use anything from the shape of your outer ear to custom clothing designs to track you down and make an arrest. In this one I want to talk about what to do when you’re at a protest and you have your camera out and you’re thinking about documenting. We know for a fact that cops are tracking our social media, they’re monitoring hashtags, they’re on our live streams and surveilling protests without having to set foot on the streets. How can we be better community members and more accountable to one another, and use our technology to track the cops, and not ourselves? Original stitched video from @efforg 🫶🏾
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a year ago
Thank you so much to @efforg for the original video! I wanted to dig a little bit deeper into what identifiable information can look like, and why it’s a lot more complex than you might think. Part two coming soon!
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a year ago
We didn’t celebrate you nearly as much as we should have while you were here. I miss you more than words can describe. Thank you for your heart, your words, your brilliance, your activism and advocacy, Mother Cecilia. The world is a little less vibrant without you. I will cherish these birthday wishes to the end.
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2 years ago
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