Student choreographers showcase their talent
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A look into the life of Jan Adkins; SJCC English professor and author
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Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019
Jaguars roar to comeback victory
The Voice of San Jose City College students Since 1956
Volume 88 Issue 5
Transgender deaths remembered BY JOEANNA LOPEZ
was happening and spoke up to help out. “We need our allies,” Johnson In 2018, there were 22 total said nodding, “we very much deaths in the United States trans- need our allies.” Kelly Kelly, 53-year-old trans gender community. “I’m tired of this. This has to female actor, writer and producstop,” said Dana Johnson, Com- er made it a point not to highmissioner of the County of San light all the activism she’s done Mateo LGBTQ Commission, but rather to credit her mentors, share titles of who has moderresources and ated Transgender to tell why she Day of Rememhas focused on brance ceremostepping back nies for more to examine than 14 years. and “unpack All those who my own whitefilled the Auditoness.” rium on Nov. 19 Kelly exwere welcomed Dana Johnson, San Mateo the to the ceremony, LGBTQ Commision commisioner plained harm that is presented by done by taking Safe Zone and the SJCC President’s Arts and the lead role in settings where her Lecture Series in the Technology experiences are not the majority and how that only retriggers trauBuilding Room T-415. Johnson presented an engaging ma; resulting in emotional labor program and spoke about the dif- done by the underserved because ference between gender identity she cannot and simply will not and gender sexual orientation, ever experience their trauma beshared their coming out stories cause she is “white-passing.” Part of the ceremony includes and gave their testimonial about the danger that comes with being holding space for the victims. With the lights dimmed, the alan African-American transgentar set up complete with 25 cander. In the U.S. this year alone, 24 dles gleaming as a photo slideof the 25 victims whom we have show with a brief eulogy for each lost to anti-transgender violence individual was shown while the ceremonial reading of names “say are African-American. “There’s a group that’s being their name” was done by guest targeted,” Johnson said after shar- speakers Johnson, Kelly and Lily ing their near-death experience in Zheng. “This event could be triggerOakland a few years ago. The person who pulled a gun ing but it genuinely opened my on them that evening in Oakland eyes to many issues that hopefatefully pulled on a jammed trig- fully will gain more awareness,” ger while a passerby saw what said attendee Kenya Ortiz, firstTIMES STAFF
“We need our allies, we very much need our allies.”
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year SJCC student via email correspondence. Diversity and inclusion consultant and author of “Ambiguity in the Workplace: Transgender and Gender-Diverse Discrimination,” Zheng reminded the room that transphobia intersects with other systems of oppression, such as, “workplace discrimination and the broken American dream,” and that everyone in the room “could do something about this in a way that the next person can not.” Zheng said, “It’s more than just going to TDOR events and feeling pity for transgenders, it’s about leaving more aware and prepared for the work that needs to be done.
PHOTO BY JASON LIN/TIMES STAFF Kelly Kelly, a trans female actor, writer and producer speaks to the crowd in the auditorium of Room T415 on Nov. 19. Kelly explained on how that despite the activism she’s done, she’s stepping back to examine and “unpack my own whiteness.”
PHOTO BY JASON LIN/TIMES STAFF Dana Johnson, Kelly Kelly, and Lily Zheng read out the names of the transgender individuals who died in 2019 in the auditorium of Room T412 on Nov. 19. In the United States, there were 22 deaths in the transgender community in 2018.
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