Collections by Michelle Brown WSG Tracee McDaniel

Collections by Michelle Brown

Tracee McDaniel’s personal motto is “Show up and participate for equality.” She was the first trans person to deliver the keynote speech at the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday celebration march and rally. Tracee marched in Washington, DC, and lobbied in support of a fully inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act and increased HIV/AIDS housing. She published “Transitions-Memoirs of a Transsexual Woman”, which chronicled her unordinary life growing up Trans in the South and then eventually in 1990 escaping to Los Angeles, CA to save her life from a domestically violent intimate partner relationship. It also details her evolution working in the corporate world by day and then effortlessly transitioning into her performance artist Alter-Ego by night to make ends meet. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Juxtaposed Center for Transformation which is an advocacy, consulting, and social services referral organization, specifically designed to empower the non-monolithic Trans and Gender Non-Conforming community. Juxtaposed Center’s vision is to act as a collective body to provide basic, necessary, and fundamental resources to the Trans community. It is also an anchoring organization for Trans Housing Atlanta Program Inc., which provides supportive and emergency housing resources to homeless and marginalized Trans and gender non-conforming people.