How 'Pose' Season 2 Shined a Necessary Light on the Black Transgender Lives Matter Movement (Exclusive)
(Spoilers for the episode, which first premiered on July 9, 2019 on FX, and is now streaming on Netflix.) It is also a reflection of the many transgender people who have lost their lives in the decades since. In 2019, in the wake of the increasing numbers of deaths, the American Medical Association even called the violence against the transgender community an epidemic, stating that transgender women were most at risk. She got her trophy, she got her 10s across the board [before] finally being laid to rest, Mock says of the fanciful sequence. It felt like it was a beautiful send-off for us both, Ross adds, before paying tribute to the real transgender women who lives were lost.
Janet Mock on the Parallels Between the George Floyd Protests and the 1969 Stonewall Riots (Exclusive)
So on that fateful night in 1969, when they [rose up] together to say, Were tired of this policing. Furthering Mocks point, GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis says that the LGBTQ movement really caught fire [with] allies coming on. Now were having less conversations about why we should center black lives in this conversation. So what I would say to them, in this time period, is to refocus yourself in this. And then from there, you build more and more and more to be an activist or to be a co-conspirator in our movement.