Marti Abernathey is contributing editor on Bilerico.com and Transadvocate.com's blog mother. She's also a podcaster, activist, and radiologic technologist in Indianapolis, Indiana.
She's been a part of various internet radio ventures such as TSR Live!, The T-Party, and The Radical Trannies, to name a few.
As an advocate she's previously been involved with the Indiana Transgender Rights Advocacy Alliance, Rock Indiana Campaign for Equality, and the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition. She's taken vital roles as a grass roots community organizer in The Indianapolis Tax Day Protest (2003), The Indy Pride HRC Protest (2004), Transgender Day of Remembrance (2004), Indiana's Witch Hunt (2005), and the Rally At The Statehouse (the largest ever GLBT protest in Indiana - 3/2005).
Marti has also lobbied in Washington, D.C. with various national organizations.
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I see what Marti was advocating, a bit better than when she originally posted. I agree that UE is probably not going to be visible next year, and my own congressman has told me not to expect it. I will probably still advocate for defeat of a non-inclusive ENDA, but I respect her reasons for not doing so.
Do we have any particular organizations in mind? NOW would seem an obvious one; perhaps NAACP (and some t advocates I know of have that in mind). Frankly, I've pretty much given up on Federal work for now, in favor of state progress, since the iron has been hot in our state.
I still expect that, even if we're working with other orgs, and not mentioning them, that HRC will continue to lock us out of offices. I'm not sure how to deal with that. There's a certain part of me that can't let Solmonese off the hook for his lying.
Certainly a discussion worth listening closely to.