About Us Black Lives Matter Our lineage From Stonewall, forward. The echoes of Marsha P. Johnson's defiant stand at Stonewall still reverberate today, but the struggle for Black trans and non-binary rights stretches long before and well beyond that night in 1969. At Black Trans Alliance we inherit both that proud history of resistance and its unfinished business — tearing down the systemic oppression that still threatens our community. A Black trans woman helped ignite the modern LGBTQ+ movement over fifty years ago. Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera did not wait for permission to lead — they organised, they sheltered each other, they fought. Today we carry that work forward: campaigning to dismantle the discrimination and violence that still threatens far too many Black trans and non-binary people in the UK. But we cannot win these battles alone. That is why our work is intersectional by necessity, not by trend. Black trans and non-binary people live at the intersection of multiple structures of power, and any liberation strategy that ignores any one of them will fail us. A note on intersectionality “ Intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects. — Kimberlé Crenshaw, 1989 For us, intersectionality is not a buzzword. It is the lived reality of Black trans and non-binary people whose lives are shaped by the simultaneous force of anti-Black racism, transphobia, misogyny, and economic precarity. We refuse to treat these as separate fights. They are interlocking systems — and they demand interlocking resistance. In that same spirit, we stand with the global Black Lives Matter movement to confront the anti-Black racism endemic in our institutions — in policing, in healthcare, in education, in housing. Our shared liberation is intertwined across lines of gender, sexuality, and race in the fight against white supremacy. The fight didn't start with us. It will not end with us. What we can do — what we are doing — is keep faith with the people who organised before us, and prepare the ground for the people who will organise after. In solidarity #BlackLivesMatter Manage Cookie Preferences