Read Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton, a book that examines the intersections of Blackness and transness across American history.

AF3IRM Hawai’i - A grassroots, completely unfunded transnational feminist activist organization led by Native Hawaiian, Black, immigrant, queer, and gender diverse women of color. The group’s membership includes women with lived experiences within the commercialized sex industry. Members are committed to militant movement-building from the United States and effect change through grassroots organizing, trans-ethnic alliance building, education, advocacy, and direct action.

https://blackaids.org/ - Black AIDS Institute (BAI) is dedicated to ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Black community. BAI is the only uniquely and unapologetically Black HIV think and do tank in America. It believes in achieving complete freedom for Black people by eradicating systematic oppression so that we can live long, healthy lives.

https://marshap.org/ - The Marsha P. Johnson Institute (MPJI) protects and defends the human rights of Black transgender people. It does this by organizing, advocating, creating an intentional community to heal, developing transformative leadership, and promoting our collective power.

https://soundcloud.com/danella-xuc/tracks - Marsha’s Plate: Black Trans Podcast - A lively podcast that centers the Black perspective and features three friends who come together every Thursday to share opinions. Hosted By Diamond Stylz, Mia Mix, and Zee, all Houston-based digital strategists, Black feminists, civil right advocates, and Black trans people. They explore topics of gender, current events, politics, and scumbags all around the world upholding systems of oppression through a Black trans feminist lens. With a funny no-holds-barred style, they introduce new perspectives, stories that connect you to transness, and trans community leaders around the country.

https://blacktrans.org/ - The National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition is the only social justice organization led by Black trans people to address collectively the inequities faced in the Black transgender human experience.

https://swopusa.org/- Sex Workers Outreach Project -USA (SWOP-USA) is a national social justice network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of people involved in the sex trade and their communities focused on ending violence and stigma through education and advocacy.

Sex Workers Project – A national organization that defends the human rights of sex workers by destigmatizing and decriminalizing people in the sex trades through free legal services, education, research, and policy advocacy.