Panel: International Transgender Day of Visibility –  A partnership with Mirror Mem
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2021-03-29

In honor of Transgender Day of Visibility, Mirror Memoirs hosts a panel of transgender, non-binary and intersex child sexual abuse survivors of color. Amita Swadhin will moderate a conversation between three Memoir Memoirs survivor storytellers, Ebony Ava Harper, Ducky Jones and Santos LaRose, on how our movements can better support the healing and leadership of survivors who are often left out of the conversation.


Survivor-led movements to end sexual violence are beginning to recognize how systemic oppression creates an environment for rape culture to thrive. A 2012 study from the American Academy of Pediatrics found gender non-conformity in childhood is a risk factor for sexual abuse, with gender non-conforming male-assigned-at-birth children most likely to be sexually abused. Yet too often, our movements to end gender-based violence do not intentionally uplift the leadership of transgender, non-binary and intersex survivors. 

Featuring
Amita Swadhin (they/them) 
Ebony Ava Harper 
Ducky Jones
Santos LaRose