AFC Founder Carl Siciliano talks with attorney, activist, and City Council candidate Alejandra Caraballo about the potentialities and limitations of legal efforts to achieve equality for transgender people, the tension between hate crime laws and criminal justice abolitionism, and the societal forces which continue to make transgender people targets of violence. Alejandra also speaks movingly about the recently deceased Lorena Borjas and how much she meant to the Trans Latinx community.
For more info:
On Alejandra Caraballo https://www.gaycitynews.com/alejandra-caraballo-dreams-of-shattering-a-glass-ceiling-in-brooklyn/
On the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund https://transgenderlegal.org/
On Lorena Borjas https://www.them.us/story/lorena-borjas-mother-of-queens-trans-latinx-community-died-coronavirus