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jordana lesesne - fight for our lives lyrics

[intro: jordana lesesne]
some people are born into this fight. we don’t choose it, it chooses us. i’ve been fighting it my entire life. in the year 2000, matthew gostlin and a gang of white men tried to murder me in a transphobic hate crime after i left a rave in ohio. were it not for an interracial couple who saved me, they probably would have.

i got receipts from this fight, in the form of nerve damage. today, i literally can’t feel half of my face as a result of their attack on mе. and they never spеnt so much as a night in jail. they never even were arrested. and my life was forever changed for the worse.

now, imagine if the situation had been reversed: imagine if i had been a young, white trans girl brutally beaten by a gang of black men. you d+mn well know they would have at least been arrested, and probably would have spent more than a night in jail. instead, i caught h+ll. you, like me, might be a veteran of this fight for social justice; or, this might be the first time that you yourself have stood up.

[black lives matter protesters]
no justice, no peace
no racist police

no justice, no peace
no racist police

no justice, no peace
no racist police
[jordana lesesne]
this moment, this movement, is not just about the deaths of tamir rice, michael brown, eric garner, breonna taylor, or george floyd: it’s also about the deaths of dana martin, itali marlowe, tony mcdade, zoe spears, ashanti carmon, riah milton, and too many others—black transgender people whose names almost never become a nationally trending hashtag.

[break]

[jordana lesesne]
like the late toni morrison said: “if you’re gonna hold someone down, you’re gonna have to hold on by the other end of the chain. you are confined by your own repression.” let me say that again: you are confined by your own repression.

so, this is not a game, this is not a meme, this is not a hashtag. we are not a joke. and silence is not an option: silence equals an excuse of the violence. and make no mistake: we learned to fight for our lives. oh, yeah, we’ll honor the dead, but we’ll fight like h+ll for the living.

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