Black History Month - Black Trans Women - February 7th

Today I want to focus on a Black trans woman whose work has focused less on recognition and more on making sure people actually survive: Ceyenne Doroshow. Ceyenne Doroshow is a Black transgender activist from New York City who has spent years supporting trans women who are unhoused, incarcerated, or living in extreme poverty. Having experienced homelessness and survival sex work herself, she built her advocacy around the needs she understood firsthand. Rather than speaking only in policy spaces, she focused on direct care and immediate help for people who were often ignored even within LGBTQ+ organizations. She founded G.L.I.T.S. (Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society), which provides housing assistance, food, healthcare support, and resources specifically for trans people, particularly Black trans women. Doroshow’s work shows that activism is not always speeches or headlines. Sometimes it looks like helping someone get a place to sleep, access medication, or simply be treated with dignity. Her legacy is still being written, but her impact is already clear in the lives she has helped stabilize and protect, reminding us that community care has always been at the center of Black trans history.