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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>My name is Devon, I am a beautiful, intelligent black trans woman. See you at the ball room</description><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social</link><title>@devonsparls.bsky.social - Devon Sparks</title><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3meaco2sllm2m</link><description>Injustice exists when institutions refuse to learn. Schools, workplaces, and healthcare systems must change to meet the needs of Black trans women, not force them to adapt to harmful environments.</description><pubDate>07 Feb 2026 01:52 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3meaco2sllm2m</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3meac2vri3e2c</link><description>Violence against Black trans women is not random. It is the result of hatred being tolerated and normalized. When their deaths are ignored or misreported, injustice deepens, sending the message that their lives are disposable.</description><pubDate>07 Feb 2026 01:41 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3meac2vri3e2c</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3meabfkzler2m</link><description>The right to exist includes the right to be visible without danger. Black trans women should be able to express themselves freely, without fear that authenticity will invite violence, ridicule, or punishment.</description><pubDate>07 Feb 2026 01:29 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3meabfkzler2m</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3meaaowfeu22t</link><description>Black trans women live at the intersection of racism and transphobia, where harm multiplies. Discrimination limits access to housing, healthcare, and safety. These barriers are not accidents they are built systems that continue to fail and endanger them.</description><pubDate>07 Feb 2026 01:16 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3meaaowfeu22t</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3meaa5z7jwe2p</link><description>The right to exist includes the right to be visible without danger. Black trans women should be able to express themselves freely, without fear that authenticity will invite violence, ridicule, or punishment.</description><pubDate>07 Feb 2026 01:07 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3meaa5z7jwe2p</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3mea7n54dge2p</link><description>Injustice exists when people stay silent. Neutrality allows harm to continue. Choosing to care, to speak up, and to protect Black trans women is an active step toward justice, not an optional gesture of support.</description><pubDate>07 Feb 2026 00:58 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3mea7n54dge2p</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3mea6y6qt6s2v</link><description>Black trans women live at the intersection of racism and transphobia, where harm multiplies. Discrimination limits access to housing, healthcare, and safety. These barriers are not accidents they are built systems that continue to fail and endanger them.</description><pubDate>07 Feb 2026 00:46 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3mea6y6qt6s2v</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3mea6fy3evc2v</link><description>Black trans women deserve economic stability and opportunity. Poverty is not a personal failure but the outcome of discrimination. Fair access to jobs, education, and resources is a matter of justice.</description><pubDate>07 Feb 2026 00:36 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3mea6fy3evc2v</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3mea5xtofeg2b</link><description>Violence against Black trans women is not random. It is the result of hatred being tolerated and normalized. When their deaths are ignored or misreported, injustice deepens, sending the message that their lives are disposable.</description><pubDate>07 Feb 2026 00:28 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3mea5xtofeg2b</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3mea5da47pe24</link><description>The right to exist includes the right to be visible without danger. Black trans women should be able to express themselves freely, without fear that authenticity will invite violence, ridicule, or punishment.</description><pubDate>07 Feb 2026 00:16 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3mea5da47pe24</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3mea4rlejar2m</link><description>Injustice exists when Black trans women are excluded from conversations about justice itself. Movements that ignore them reinforce harm, even while claiming progress. True justice cannot be selective or conditional.</description><pubDate>07 Feb 2026 00:06 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3mea4rlejar2m</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3mea4b3xjbp2b</link><description>A future that includes Black trans women is a future rooted in dignity and truth. Their right to exist is absolute. Ending injustice begins by honoring that truth and refusing to let it be ignored.</description><pubDate>06 Feb 2026 23:57 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3mea4b3xjbp2b</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3mea3pqtltz2u</link><description>The right to exist includes the right to be visible without danger. Black trans women should be able to express themselves freely, without fear that authenticity will invite violence, ridicule, or punishment.</description><pubDate>06 Feb 2026 23:47 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3mea3pqtltz2u</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3mea356c6ld2o</link><description>Violence against Black trans women is not random. It is the result of hatred being tolerated and normalized. When their deaths are ignored or misreported, injustice deepens, sending the message that their lives are disposable.</description><pubDate>06 Feb 2026 23:37 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3mea356c6ld2o</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3mea2nlnhdc2p</link><description>Black trans women matter. Their lives are valuable, sacred, and nonnegotiable. Injustice exists, but so does the power to resist it. Affirming their right to exist is not radical it is human, necessary, and long overdue.</description><pubDate>06 Feb 2026 23:28 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3mea2nlnhdc2p</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3me7zxg3v6r2c</link><description>Yet Black trans women persist. They create families, art, movements, and futures. Their resilience is powerful, but it should not be required for survival. Strength should be a choice, not a demand placed on them by oppression.</description><pubDate>06 Feb 2026 23:16 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3me7zxg3v6r2c</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3me7zdoqy6u2b</link><description>Solidarity means showing up even when it is uncomfortable. Supporting Black trans women requires action, not just agreement. Justice grows when people choose courage over convenience.</description><pubDate>06 Feb 2026 23:05 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3me7zdoqy6u2b</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3me7ywpthdc2b</link><description>Black trans women deserve lives filled with safety, softness, and possibility. They should be able to walk through the world without fear, knowing their existence is not up for debate and their presence does not require justification or defense.</description><pubDate>06 Feb 2026 22:58 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3me7ywpthdc2b</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3me7yayxxxz24</link><description>Injustice exists when society questions the humanity of Black trans women. It appears in laws, media, and silence. It shows up when their identities are mocked, denied, or erased, and when their survival is treated as controversial instead of essential.</description><pubDate>06 Feb 2026 22:46 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3me7yayxxxz24</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3me7xpqvuky2b</link><description>Injustice exists when systems profit from their pain. When healthcare excludes them, employment shuts them out, and policing targets them, harm becomes routine. These conditions are maintained by choices, not inevitability, and they can be changed.</description><pubDate>06 Feb 2026 22:36 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:o77f26bqpy3ccwizn3txjwis/app.bsky.feed.post/3me7xpqvuky2b</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/devonsparls.bsky.social/post/3me7x74fomb2b</link><description>A future that includes Black trans women is a future rooted in dignity and truth. 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