Trans Delight & Anti-Racist March in Brixton: 5 years in the past at this time on Saturday 14th September I photographed the beginning of London’s first Trans+ Delight march earlier than taking the tube to Brixton for an anti-racist march and rally.
London’s First Trans+ Delight March
Tons of met at Hyde Park Nook to march alongside Oxford Avenue to Soho Sq. in London’s first Trans+ Delight March, was each a celebration and protest for trans, non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming people and their household, mates and allies.
They marched to extend the visibility of the trans+ neighborhood and to protest towards the persevering with discrimination within the UK and world wide towards trans folks.
Many carried placards and posters with messages resembling ‘Trans Rights Matter‘ and ‘Trans Rights Are Human Rights’.
There was growing transphobia in British media, with trans folks being attacked on the streets, and this has continued to develop since 2019.
The charity Cease Hate UK stories that in “2020/2021, 2,630 Hate Crimes towards transgender folks have been recorded by the Police, a rise of 16% from the earlier yr” although they are saying the precise variety of incidents is far better as 88% of transgender victims of significant incidents didn’t report them.
Incidents reported to Cease Hate UK have been of “verbal abuse, threatening behaviour, harassment and anti-social behaviour, resembling having derogatory phrases shouted at them, having invasive or inappropriate questions requested of them or dealing with harassment from neighbours, co-workers or strangers. “
In 2018 Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists had disrupted the Delight March in London with an anti-Trans protest and there have been fears they could attempt to disrupt this march. There have been many feminists supporting trans rights on this march.
Extra footage at London’s First Trans+ Delight March.
Brixton anti-racist march
I took the tube from Inexperienced Park to Brixton the place Motion for Justice and Lambeth Unison Black Employees’ Group have been protesting towards the persevering with persecution of Windrush members of the family and different migrants.
They known as for freedom of motion, the closure of immigration detention prisons, and an finish to Brexit which is getting used to whip up immigrant-bashing and nationalism to ascertain a Trump-style regime in Britain below Boris Johnson.
I missed the beginning of the rally in Windrush Sq., however heard a number of of the audio system together with Eulalee who has been preventing the Residence Workplace for 16 years to stay within the UK together with her household and was carrying a ‘Extra Blacks! Extra Canine! Extra Irish‘ t-shirt.
Folks picked up their posters and marched the quick distance to busy Brixton Market.
Right here they stopped for extra speeches, with many consumers stopping briefly to pay attention and taking the fliers that have been being handed out.
The protest appears to get a really constructive reception out there.
Inexperienced MEP for London Scott Ainslie joined the protest to discuss his ‘LDNlovesEU‘ marketing campaign calling for an finish to Brexit.
After his speech the protesters picked up their posters and moved on alongside Electrical Avenue,
and become Atlantic Highway,
They then marched down Brixton Highway again to Windrush Sq. the place the protest ended with some transient speeches and pictures.
Extra footage on My London Diary at Brixton anti-racist march.
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