With October is Coming Out month, I thought I would reintroduce a subgroup in our community touch which is too often forgotten or ignored, lesbian, bisexual and transgender women of African descent.
I want to re-introduce this group as an innovative study in July came entitled "Black Lesbians matter" examines the unique experiences, perspectives and priorities of the Community black lute, and unfortunately little is known about it.
This report reveals that the lute women of African descent are among the most vulnerable in our society and the need for advocacy in the areas of financial security, health care, access to education and marriage equality.
The study is akin to a census carried out for several months in 2009-2010 where women lute 1,596 regional organizations, the State and New York, Atlanta, Chicago and Denver and through a survey on-line participated.The study focuses on five key areas: health, family/parenting, identity, aging and invisibility.
Main findings of the survey revealed the following:
? Health - it is a model of suicide rate higher among nous.érudits mainly associate these suicide rates higher with its ability to cope with "exit".
? Family/parenting-45% of households in same-sex female black include a biological child of one of the partners in their household.Parental homophobic political at the United States will be disproportionately affect black LBT parents or parents.
? Identity--in the age group 69% of 18-24 are less likely to identify as lesbian. Especially identified as queer.
? Aging – 25% more than 50 years living alone and the fear of poverty and homelessness.
? Invisibility-48% were rejected and discrimination, disclose identity work leading to the exclusion of society and even termination events.
It is clear that survey provides information of the avant-garde of a traditionally marginalised group, highlighting the needs and concerns identified by the communauté.Mais Zuna is the first to collect data on us.
Although Zuna Institute autour of since 1999, people still wondering who they are.
The inimitable way that black women kitchens operate as "think tanks" on civil rights and social justice issues, delivery of many organizations, is how Zuna Institute was founded.Zuna is the first of its kind to become a national organization providing services to the lute black community.Believing that the development of a healthy LBT black identity can only be advocating specifically for lute of African descent on a national level and it would effectively eliminate the prejudices and barriers of race, class, gender and sexual orientation discrimination, that we face daily, Zuna aims to improve our quality of life by organising national conferences providing education for the health care, political and economic promotion or relational and social resources.
Since the 1970s were almost a 20-year hiatus since the country has seen activism collective black lute at the national level.
However, in the lute years 70 women of African descent have become increasingly important and increasingly visible role in queer politics and féministe.Deux hotspots were New York and Boston.
In New York "Salsa Soul Sisters, Third World Wimmin collective Inc." was the first "out" women of color organization and the oldest black lesbian organization in the country today the group is called "African ancestral lesbians United for Social Change."
In Boston, the "Combahee River Collective," referring to Harriet Tubman, conductor on the underground railway released 750 slaves near Combahee River in South Carolina in 1863 was a black lesbian in active feminist organization, 1974 to 1980.Le group is best known for "Combahee River collective statement" document key in history and the shaping of black feminist pensé.Le paper presented a new paradigm to watch oppression by ranking does not like race, class, gender and sexual orientation, a hierarchy of oppression, but rather to look at all of multivariate analysis, recognizing the nested oppression.
Today here in greater Boston "Combahee River Collective" Ethics continues with "Queer women of color and friends" (QWOC + Boston), a community organization dedicated to the creation of a social space for diverse affect women of color.
Deceased African-American poet and activist Pat Parker, in his book "Movement in black," writes on how the company did not embrace its multiple identities. "If I could take my everywhere with me when I go somewhere, is not to say to them, "no, you stay home this evening, you're welcome, because I go to a third party white where I can be gay, but not black."Or I'm going to read black poetry, and half of the poets are antihomosexual, even thousands of situations where something of what I can come with moi.Le day, all different parts of me may arise, we have what I would call a revolution.?
After nearly two decades of lute women of African descent on a national level Zuna invisibility causes a revolution taking bold in this era of politics, single-issue queer contents stage to remind us all what we.
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