Racial Justice Statement

19 June 2020

T-Cal stands in solidarity with the protests, uprisings, and rebellions against the police killings of Black people and all forms of violence against Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and trans communities. 

We condemn state-sanctioned violence, white supremacist vigilantism, the continued murders of Black trans women, and all forms of systemic violence enacted against BIPOC communities. We support the call for fundamental, deep change of systems of policing and criminal justice that involve the surveillance and over-policing, incarceration, and unnecessary use of force in communities of color and specifically in the Black community. We support the demand for the abolition of police and the call to build community-based responses to violence, structures that prevent the loss of BIPOC lives, undermine mass-incarceration, and actually provide safety, reconciliation, and justice for our communities.

Our intention is to share within our group and the community about the ways that racial justice intersects with and disproportionately affects the Black trans community.

Erika Howard

Director, T-Cal (Trans and Nonbinary Support Group)

Registered Student Organization at the University of California, Berkeley