Stunning Posters Aim To Transform Trans Day Of Remembrance Into Resilience

For Transgender Day of Remembrance, coming up this Friday on November 20, the artist Micah Bazant partnered with Strong Families, a network of advocacy groups, to facilitate collaborations between trans artists and organizations that advocate for trans and gender-nonconforming people. Entitled Trans Day of Resilience, the project has produced eight visually powerful posters that both highlight the victims of anti-trans violence, and emphasize the power and resilience of the trans community in the face of oppression.

Here are the eight posters, along with their creators and the organizations they partnered with:

B. Parker for BreakOUT! of New Orleans, LA

B. Paker

Ebin Lee for SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW of Atlanta, GA

Ebin Lee

Micah Bazant for Audre Lorde Project of New York City

Micah Bazant

Mohammed Fayaz for Transgender Law Center, a national organization

Mohammed Fayaz

Rommy Torrico for TransLatina Coalition, a national organization

Rommy Torrico

Adelina Cruz for Coalition of Trans Women of Color of Albuquerque, NM

Adelina Cruz

Wriply Bennet for Black Lives Matter, a national organization

Wimply Bennet

Bishakh Som for Buried Seedz of Denver, CO

Bishakh Som

Trans visual artist Micah Bazant, who coordinated the project and created one of the posters, told BuzzFeed News that the endeavor is rooted in social change movements.

"I'm really excited about getting these posters into the streets for some of the trans marches of resilience," Bazant said. "It’s so inspiring to me that so many movements are supporting trans and gender-nonconforming people of color."

Bishakh Som, an artist who created a poster for the Colorado-based organization Buried Seedz of Reistance, told BuzzFeed News that they experienced a sense of belonging by participating in the project, believing that the art will allow trans people to be seen not only as victims.

"I hope to have everyone’s piece be part of a mosaic," Som said, "of building awareness around how multifaceted trans and gender-nonconforming people can be."