A Place to Be Seen: The Black Trans Cookout Returns

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“So then I would get to sit through the Angelito offering and they would make us stand, they would have a prayer session,” Sol Angel recalled, thinking back to her childhood in the Dominican Republic. That sense of ritual, of being seen and cared for in a small but meaningful way, shapes the work she now pours into

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