Stand With US While We’re Alive

To the ones who say they love me, to the ones who say they support me — I’m asking you to really hear me. Not just hear of me. Not just post about me when the world reminds you. Hear me now, while I am alive.

We are always told to be strong. To endure. To fight battles we didn’t start. And too often, we are only mourned once we lose the fight. Too often, Black trans people are remembered in hashtags and candlelight, in murals and marches after our lives have been stolen.

But I am alive now. We are alive now. And we need you to stand with us now.

If you truly support me. — if you believe in my life, my dreams, my leadership — I’m asking you to invest in me while I’m still here. Support my work. Invest in Black Trans Leadership. Invest in the creation of safer spaces where Black and Brown trans people can gather, heal, grow, and thrive.

Because the truth is: We are building spaces we were never meant to have. We are planting gardens where there was once only concrete. We are daring to dream of futures where we can live freely, without fear, without violence, without compromise.

We are doing this work on shoestrings budgets and broken hearts, fueled by love and rage and hope. And we need your real support — not just your sympathy, not just your sadness when the worst happens.

We need you to show up in the flesh, not just in your grief. We need you to fight with us, not just for us. We need you to recognize that nobody’s life will truly matter until Black Trans Lives Matter — not in theory, not in sentiment, but in action.

I’m not asking for charity. I’m not asking for pity. I’m asking for solidarity. For love that shows itself in real, tangible ways. For allyship that means risking something, changing something, building something alongside us.

Because we deserve more than memorials. We deserve more than moments of mourning. We deserve lives full of joy, safety, purpose, and community.

Support my work. Support our leadership. Support our existence.

Not later. Not after. Now.

Because we are worth of it. Because we have always been worth it. Because Black Trans Lives Matter — while we are here, breathing, dreaming, creating, and fighting for a world where we are no longer asked to die to be seen.