TWOCC -Trans Women of Color Collective

TWOCC -Trans Women of Color Collective

An organization run by Executive Director, Dr. Lourdes Ashley Hunter, a Black, disabled, non-binary transgender woman who has spent more than two decades as an activist and organizer fighting against what Hunter described as the “state-sanctioned violence” committed against her multiple marginalized identities.

“TWOCC is my dream,” Hunter said. “It’s my passion, something I’m able to do without restriction whatsoever…We all deserve to see ourselves affirmed and celebrated and loved.”

Hunter said one of the biggest challenges of running TWOCC is helping people understand the mission, that the organization is of course there to respond to the problems facing transgender people, but that it also seeks to actively create a world where the beauty and talents of transgender people are acknowledged and applauded.

“Our biggest challenge was getting folks to understand we were reimagining and creating a world we saw ourselves successful in, that we saw ourselves affirmed and celebrated in,” Hunter said.

Molly Sprayregen, Dr. Lourdes Ashley Hunter On How The Trans Women Of Color Collective Celebrates Trans Lives. 2021. Forbes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollysprayregen/2021/02/16/dr-lourdes-ashley-hunter-on-how-the-trans-women-of-color-collective-celebrates-trans-lives/?sh=623efa002973

https://www.twocc.us/

(2015) TWOCC Trans Women of Color Collective. United States. [Web Archive] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0029496/.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollysprayregen/2021/02/16/dr-lourdes-ashley-hunter-on-how-the-trans-women-of-color-collective-celebrates-trans-lives/?sh=623efa002973