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Who is allowed to be a victim? | Travis Alabanza | TEDxBrum

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"I'm here to talk about the violence in silence; I don't want to call it by-standing, that sounds passive. I want to talk about the active choice in silence." A powerful and poetic story of survival as a black, trans, gender non-conforming person. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

"I'm here to talk about the violence in silence; I don't want to call it by-standing, that sounds passive. I want to talk about the active choice in silence." A powerful and poetic story of survival as a black, trans, gender non-conforming person. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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