SAY HER NAME.

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by Mesa Tinger9 views·Updated Dec 10, 2022
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  1. Hello. My name is Mesa. And here I'm going to be presenting
  2. my Queer studies final portfolio.
  3. It is titled Say Her Name. And it highlights
  4. the stories and experiences of transgender and trans feminine
  5. individuals throughout history and into the present.
  6. The first section of my portfolio
  7. is a presentation on Presi
  8. and it goes through the history.
  9. Um, just a brief,
  10. a brief history on transgender rights experiences
  11. and influential women and individuals um,
  12. in our history that kind of created the Foundation for the queer movement.
  13. The second part is a piece of art that I created that I will share eventually.
  14. Um,
  15. and then a poem that goes along with it honoring
  16. the lives of three transgender women who were murdered.
  17. Um, and you will see as I go on,
  18. there will be more links to videos within the document that I
  19. share here that will bring you to the sharing of those pieces.
  20. The purpose of this project is to remember to remember the faces,
  21. to remember the stories,
  22. to remember the names to realign with what's actually true with what's actually
  23. going on in our world and what has been going on throughout history
  24. to inspire
  25. and to call for change.
  26. So much of this.
  27. So many of these individuals, so many of these names have been overlooked
  28. have not been spoken to,
  29. have not been
  30. honored in the way that they should in the lives that they were.
  31. So here I call for these names to be heard for research to be done for
  32. movements to come into action so that we
  33. can actually change and fight for these rights.
  34. The audience
  35. of this project here is anyone and everyone who wants to receive.
  36. I am moving within the context of wanting to inspire individuals through beauty,
  37. through art
  38. and through action
  39. and by putting these experiences onto paper.
  40. I hope that you feel moved enough to deepen into your
  41. your own understanding of it all as well
  42. and to remember to remember to remember
  43. in the context of this project is throughout history, at least in the beginning,
  44. the presentation goes through some history, goes through some present, present
  45. political um
  46. experiences and strife.
  47. And it's so ongoing. It's so ongoing.
  48. Everything that affects transgender women in the present, um, and then
  49. going into lives that have been lost and creating art out of
  50. that so that we can move with inspiration and honoring and reverence for
  51. these individuals. So I hope you enjoy and feel moved as we dive in.
  52. Thank you.