#(ditto if he weren't Black or unhoused! but like. these things all intersect. :/)

[aeide-thea]

[murder cw]

it would pretty definitely be derailing to bring this up on the post in question but one does wonder why jay caspian kang chose to gender all of the unhoused people whose deaths he enumerates in that paragraph except for the trans man he mentions, banko brown, whom he just calls a 'person' 🧐

#like you think 'maybe this was someone nonbinary?' #and then you do a google and article after article‚ including ones that very much engage with and quote his community‚ are like 'he.' 'man. #anyway. absolutely tangential to the main point there but i AM squinting! #(also like. i say tangential but is it really. might brown have struck the security guard as less suspicious/dangerous if he weren't trans. #(ditto if he weren't Black or unhoused! but like. these things all intersect. :/) #jay caspian kang #banko brown #transphobia