March 31 is Transgender Day of Visibility, and in New York City, the Black Trans Femmes in the Arts collective is holding a series of events, including a ballroom and drag performance in Times Square.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.March 31 is Transgender Day of Visibility. It’s an international event to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people, and others on the nonbinary and gender queer spectra. The day also aims to draw attention to issues these communities face, like violence and discrimination.collective is holding a series of events, including in Times Square and at the Brooklyn Museum.
I was also studying to get my master's in art politics at NYU, and I realized that there wasn't a lot of art advocacy or awareness around Black trans people in the arts and the contributions that we've made to arts and culture, both in the United States and around the world. And so I wanted to bring more light to that and provide more resources for Black trans femmes in the arts.
I also heard from older trans women who've been openly trans since the '90s and have been living in New York their whole life say it was the very first time that they had a space that was specifically for them in a city like New York City. A lot of what's happening is that trans people are being included for visibility sake, but we need trans people at the administrative level, we need trans people that are in the rooms making decisions, trans people on the boards of these art institutions so that there could be a real deep structural change.We're starting the day with a performance live in Times Square from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. featuring some of our brightest artists from ballroom to drag to hip-hop.
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