Black Trans Media

03/31/2025

Meet Quinton Reynolds, Founder and ED of Game Changing Men based out of Atlanta. Quinton’s changing the game for Black Trans Men and Trans Masculine people. We presented a storytelling workshop at a summit he organized last year where we interviewed him

03/31/2025

Tonight we’re in the Bronx at BAAD the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance to showcase films we’ve made about Black Trans folks celebrate TDOV with us

Images from our interview with Hazel on community safety, see full video tonight.

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03/31/2025

Today is the International Trans Day of Visibility as Black Trans people we know it’s important to be seen yet hyper visibility doesn’t make us safer- we need to address racism and transphobia we need long term housing, access to food affirming care, space for joy on 4/11 join our zoom convo on global solidarity with Black Trans leaders moving beyond visibility.

03/28/2025

Meet Jasmine McKenzie, Founder of the McKenzie Project a Black Trans led organization based out of south Florida that’s been getting the work done for our communities. We had the honor to interview her last year about her work. Learn more about Jasmines story and her leadership watch the full video on our website blacktransmedia.org under the Media tab

03/28/2025

For over a decade our work has celebrated the power of Black Trans leaders, artists, organizers, and community builders like Jasmine McKenzie of the McKenzie Project, a Black Trans led organization based out of South Florida - check out her full interview: https://www.blacktransmedia.org/blank

03/28/2025

This afternoon Sasha Alexander our Founder and Co-Director will be a featured panelist at Portrait of Q***rness: A College of Staten Island x Q***r Voices NYC Film Series as they Celebrate Trans Day of Visibility and Women’s History Month with a powerful day of films, discussions, and community at Portraits of Q***rness.

This special collaboration between the College of Staten Island and Q***r Voices NYC highlights impactful films by Staten Island filmmakers, an industry panel powered by GLAAD Media, and a screening of the award-winning documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, followed by a talkback with director Lucah Rosenberg-Lee.

In addition to compelling cinema, enjoy a vibrant disco party, light bites, and community partner tables throughout the day. Whether you stay for the full event or drop in for select sessions, there are plenty of opportunities to be part of the experience. This event is free and open to the public!

This in-person gathering offers a unique space to experience powerful storytelling, engage in thought-provoking conversations, and connect with fellow film lovers. At a time when transgender communities face increasing challenges, it is more important than ever to find strength in diverse q***r narratives and honor those who have paved the way.

Event Details
📍 Location: Center for Performing & Creative Arts (Building 1P)
🎬 Screenings: Media Culture Screening Room (Room 223)
🎉 Disco Party & Community Partners: East Lounge
The College of Staten Island is accessible by these buses: S62, S93, and SIM 33C.
Free parking is available in parking Lot 1.

03/09/2025

The Deeper than Visibility Summit is happening March 31, 2025 in - REGISTER NOW!

This isn’t just another event. At the , we are bringing together policymakers, organizers, community members, and trans leaders to take action, build power, and shape the policies and cultural shifts needed to ensure Black trans people are not just seen, but protected, resourced, and empowered.

Through interactive panels, strategy sessions, and community-led discussions,attendees will work together to:

✔ Build and invest in Black trans leadership
✔ Address the urgent need for policy change.
✔ Foster safety and connection
✔ Take collective action
✔ Shape the future of trans rights

📅 Date: March 31, 2025
📍 Location: Atlanta, GA
🎟 Click the link in our bio to register.

Tag your people. Spread the word. Register now.

03/09/2025

ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!

HB1615 ARKANSA IS TARGETING THE TRANS COMMUNITY! And there’s goodies for the LGBTQI+ community as well.

Will be heard in Judiciary Committeeittee Tuesday 3/4/25.

Start blowing up those phones. Show up for the hearing if you can!

Republican Robin Lundstrum of Springdale filed an amendment to the Arkansas Religious Nondiscrimination Act that would greatly expand faith-based civil-rights exceptions. The bill creates broad religious exemptions to allow individuals and organizations to deny services based on their religious belief about gender identity.

The bill would allow healthcare providers to legally refuse hormone therapy, surgical consultations, and even routine medical care to transgender patients if they claim a religious objection. Housing providers could deny rentals, and employers could enforce strict biological s*x-based dress codes and bathroom policies. It amounts to a full-scale repeal of identity-based protections.

The bill starts with a definition of gender and defines "belief about biological s*x or marriage" to include a belief "that 'male' or 'man' or 'female' or 'woman' refers exclusively to a person's immutable biological s*x as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at the time of birth."

The bill prohibits the state from taking “discriminatory action” against people who maintain "separate dress codes, restrooms, spas, baths, showers, dressing rooms, locker rooms, or other intimate facilities or settings based on biological s*x.” State employees who express beliefs about biological s*x based on the definition above, both in and outside the workplace, are protected.

In addition, the bill would protect individuals from having to "assist or provide professional services to a client or potential client in pursuit of goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with the person's sincerely held religious belief.”

In practical terms, this means that businesses will be allowed to refuse to accommodate transgender individuals, healthcare providers will be allowed to decline providing gender-affirming care, and educational institutions will be allowed to enforce biological s*x-based policies.

Finally, the bill specifically provides protections to employees who refuse to perform or solemnize q***r marriages, based on religious beliefs.

03/09/2025

03/09/2025

Tonight at Dear Black Trans Man you are loved we created powerful images of ourselves and eachother in a space of love, vulnerability, joy, pain, possibility, gratitude, and connection. Together we laughed we cried we talked about love and not being loved what it’s means to be in this moment/across generations. We got to reflect how we wanted to see Black Trans Men and Trans Masc folks in relationship with self and each other and wait until you see the photos by gifted comrade photographer Texas Isaiah of us embodying thank you to everyone who pulled up

03/06/2025

Dear black trans man you are loved.

Black Trans Media is holding space curated by and for us to come together and love on ourselves and each other. Uplifting the power of Black Trans love thru visual narrative we will embody and imagine what love looks like individually and collectively for us as Black Trans men and Black trans masculine people. We are thrilled to be working with photographer Texas Isaiah to nourish photographic images of us. If you are interested to take part we are popping up this weekend and every month in Bedstuy Brooklyn at Black Trans Media RSVP to black trans media due to limited space

Next session will be Saturday April 12th if you can’t make it. And monthly after that!

02/24/2025

Join us this Friday in NYC on February 28, 2025 from 6 - 10pm for our monthly Open Mic, a night filled with electric performances, conversations, prizes, dinner and a Turn Up/Dance Party.

Honoring the Life of Phoenix Nastasha Russell our Poet Laureate who is a Trancestor now, we will uplift her legacy by Celebrating her life and the power of our frameworks Black Trans Love is Wealth / Black Trans Futures and the role it has in our lives.

Email us at [email protected] to rsvp and/or to secure a slot in our Open Mic line up, they often fill up fast so take your time and hurry 🙂 See you soon 💕

02/21/2025

It’s been a hard week of loss, grief, fear, and rage for Tahiry, Sam, and beyond. We’re opening up Black Trans Media tonight and next week for Black Trans folks to gather to mourn, strategize, and take care. Reminder we hold meditation led by/for Black Trans men + trans masculine ppl every Monday + Friday noon on zoom. Black trans creatives is every Wednesday and next Friday our open mic comes back! Black Trans Love is wealth we will continue our work to love on our ourselves and our siblings

02/12/2025

Honoring Phoenix Nastasha Russell

A mother, sister, daughter, cousin, aunty and the embodiment of black trans resistance and change. She is Black Trans Medias Poet Laureate, a significantly outstanding performer whose words would encapsulate you in emotions taking you thru chapters of a story in just a reading, Oeee she was always that good and remarkable. A thought leader, a very powerful and intelligent woman. She was also a very loved community member and a fierce advocate for lgbtq people particularly black trans people. One who wasn’t enthralled with the pursuit of recognition rather busy making sustainable change. She was such a great spades player and would often have people hesitant to play if she wasn’t on their team, a very joyful spirit whose passing felt too soon, it seems the universe needed her more in another dimension. She had so many dreams and goals that she was actively working on and yet she accomplished so much in her short time with us in this realm.

Celebrating her transition also felt extremely hard, thinking of her sheer smile would light up even the darkest corners of any place and can make you reminisce and reflect on how at times the world doesn’t seem as bright and although this year marks her 6th birthday without us, making her 62 years old it doesn’t get easier to process. She was introduced to the world February 3,1963 and transitioned February 8th 2019 at 56. This year we laugh, dance, smile and share our creativity in her honor.

Her passing also serves as a reminder that there is such a vibrant legacy that lives within us, and those stories need to live outside of the echoes of our hearts and minds. She would want us to pursue our wildest dreams despite what the political landscape would have us believe.

To encourage and continue to move our black trans collective resistance onward. We uplift her time in this dimension because it reflects what you can be when you lead with the visions you have for yourself and although there may be external forces that work to limit your potential as black trans people we must never do that to our possibilities.

This month for our Open Mic, the last Friday we will center and celebrate her with a night of performances and more. Stay tuned for more details.

01/15/2025

Friday we sat down with Ugandan Trans activist Ruthra at our space for an interview. He’s seeking safety from the anti lgbt laws back home while also raising resources for Trans people needing shelter in Uganda. For his bday we are raising $900 to keep the shelter open!

01/04/2025

It's a new year still our fight for Black Trans liberation continues. Help us fundraise for a Black Trans comrade in DC who needs immediate support with housing/economic resources (last slide).

Shout out to our sisters Isabella and Twinkle who we supported mobilizing to document the Gender Liberation Rally in September. Images taken by Isabella Delacroix.

01/04/2025

11/19/2024

Tonight our Living Altar has been a powerful space to honor (Black Trans) folks here + beyond. Dee Dee Watters reminded us through the power of spirit and art that everyone of us have the right to wear our crown in our lifetime.