An excerpt from Lani Guinier’s keynote lecture at the 2008 Scholar & Feminist Conference, “The State of Democracy: Gender and Political Participation,” held on March 1, 2008 at Barnard College.
Tourmaline talks about learning and sharing histories of trans women of color, including Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), as a strategy to transform and heal from historical isolation and