Aria Sa'id

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February 5, 2019February 5, 2019 ariasaid

Aria Sa’id announced as Executive Director of the Compton’s Transgender Cultural District

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:: such an incredible panel of amazing women! thank you @airbnb for having me as a speaker for last night’s “Women’s Safety” discussion. 💕 | 📷: @njdc07
:: 🌞
:: i’m secretly BEAT today, snapchat didn’t catch it #beychella playlist all day 💕
:: 👩‍🎨: @jeeheipark ❤️ | ✍🏾: @ariasaid
:: I JUST WANNA WAKE UP @ CP TIME
:: every time u see us we super fly, cause you know how we roll, holla at ur people ✌🏾
:: “People have asked me what I mean by Ms. Cheesecake. That means that you must not only have a body, but you must also be sexy.” - Paris Is Burning | 📷: @daddy.queen
:: @kweenculture ‘s “Getting Off: Post Op Girls Chat” was so much fun! thank you to bre & @honeyistheknife for leading a space for post op trans women to share space and sisterhood. Thank you to @oaklandlgbtqcenter for welcoming us with so much love ❤️
:: coffee first, please.
:: pretty thug out that tenderloin, hit me
:: i’m so boss, every time i pull up
:: just remember that i DID serve lqqks this past fall/winter and it should be noted. ✌🏾
:: “slow songs that’s for skinny girls; imma thick chick i need tempo” 🎶 🎵
:: thank you Better District 6 for such an incredible honor, celebrating the resilience and power of transgender people in the Tenderloin is what our core value in creating the @transgenderdistrict is about- and it means so much to me and the co-founders that our work be acknowledged by our Tenderloin neighbors. Awards can mean a lot of things, but this award reminded me to be more optimistic in our work towards liberation. This award symbolizes all the times transgender people have had to consistently compromise their dreams to survive. This award reminds me of the pain of transgender people being ostracised from broader society- in a time where 10, 15, 20 and 25 years ago we were both visible and invisible- where we were not allowed agency over our bodies, and our sanity. This award reminds me of the trans women who paved the way for me to walk the streets more liberated than the era before me- trans women who know the sounds of broken glass bottles, who know violence is around the corner. who know what it’s like to walk in an interview and be laughed it. this award reminds me of the pain trans people experience in losing family, friends and lives they know to be their authentic selves. this award reminds me of the the migration of trans people from across the world- we come to San Francisco in search of freedoms we only heard of- because the lands we were in were not safe for us to survive. this honor humbles me, and reminds me of why the work of reimagining a world where trans people are economically and socially empowered in our neighborhood is necessary to our future ❤️
:: i’m supposed to be grant writing right now.. 🙉 | 📷: @daddy.queen
:: congratulations to the rising leaders of the @coronorcal women’s leadership fellowship and all the incredible work CORO is doing to cultivate impactful leaders!
:: tonight is a high! thank you to the alliance for a better district 6 for the Civil Rights Award to the @transgenderdistrict | in addition, thank you to Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Mayor London Breed, Senator Scott Wiener, Assemblymember David Chiu, and Supervisor Matt Haney and San Francisco Board of Supervisors for the acknowledgments, and recognition of our work in creating the world’s first transgender district. Thank you so much for this moment ❤️
:: “all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun. you made jokes and sure, i may have even laughed a little but mostly you were not funny. mostly you were beautiful. mostly you were unremarkable, even your mediocrity was unremarkable. when friends would ask ‘what do you like about him?” i would think of you holding a bouquet against the denim of your shirt. i mean, you had my face as your screensaver for gods sake, do you know what that does for the self-esteem of girl with an apparition for a father? hey, do you remember the quiet between us in all those restaurants? all the other couples engrossed in deep conversation and us, as quiet as a closed mouth. that one afternoon when i asked ‘why do you love me?’ and you replied as quick as a toin coss ‘because you’re mad, because you’re crazy’ and i said ‘why else?’ and you said ‘that mouth, i love that mouth’ and i collapsed into myself like a sheet right out of the dryer. you clean, beautiful, unremarkable boy, raised by a pleasant mother, was i just a riot you loved to watch up close? there were times i picked arguments just so that we could have something to talk about. last week, i walked through the part of the city i loved when i still loved you, our old haunts. you know, even the ghosts have moved on.” 📜: Warsan Shire | 📷: @daddy.queen

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