Visibility; A Poem For Transgender Day Of Visibility

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Visibility
A variety of meanings
A torch in the obsidian night
Glasses to sharpen an image
Colours against a background of grey.
But to me
Visibility cannot be achieved this way
Visibility is videos,
Images,
Representation
Visibility is
One day of the year
Thousands of voices singing
We are here
We are proud
And we are never backing down
Trans people are beaten
We are bruised
But we are far from broken
On this day of visibility
Through the violence
Through the venom filled words
We make ourselves known
Through the story's on the media,
When every day I hear of my brothers and sisters dying,
My siblings being murdered for who they are
My siblings killing themselves to end the pain
That is every day
That is not the visibility we want
We want hope and pride and strength
So on this day,
My trans brothers, sisters and siblings
We rise up and we say
We are here and we are never going away.

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