I am so tired of explaining to non-American friends how exhausting & dangerous it is to be trans, Black, disabled or poor in the US. How we were wanted dead before this & our deaths are still mostly invisible. How far the exported, curated image of the US always was from reality.

I& #39;m also grieving for all the trans people who are dying of covid whose deaths won& #39;t even be recorded, whether bc they never had access to medical care in the first place &/or bc they don& #39;t have ID in their real gender with their real name. Those of us erased even in death.

On a related note, from an article over at Africa Is a Country: " #COVID19 has highlighted a long-term failure among some states to sustain public health, to sustain life, through their commitment to neoliberal agendas to end state welfare in favor of privatization. ..."

"...The US & British govt& #39;s are particularly egregious in governing on the basis of [...] affordable death through privatization... The power to dictate who may live has been outsourced & increasingly privatized, available only to those who can afford it." https://africasacountry.com/2020/04/the-necropolitics-of-covid-19">https://africasacountry.com/2020/04/t...