For Black trans women, a chosen mother means love — and a vital line of defense
Jeynce Poindexter was 14 when home stopped feeling like home. Her mother could not accept that she was transgender, Poindexter said, and staying would have meant negotiating an identity she already knew was not negotiable. So she left. What came next for Poindexter was survival,
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Honors mothers and motherhood. Anna Jarvis kicked it off in West Virginia in 1908 to remember her own mother; it became a US national holiday in 1914 and spread to dozens of countries. Most observe it on the second Sunday of May — though Mexico, Spain, the UK and others run on their own calendars.
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