In rewatching “Paris is Burning” I was really aware of the moments that highlight the ways that oppression is cuts across different groups. I think it demonstrates the way that, at least as society was then and now, for many some level of oppression is inescapable. When Pepper LaBeija is discussing other trans women’s desire to fully transition, and their assumption that doing so will somehow solve their problems, Pepper expresses the ways in which all women are oppressed. Trans women are not only oppressed because they are trans, they are oppressed because they are women too. I think this is also something Venus Xtravaganza illustrates in discussing the moralizing of her sex work. She discusses the way she sleeps with men for money, or food, the transactional nature of her sex work and she compares it to heteronormative relationships. While Venus may not have other alternatives, sex work being her only means of supporting herself as work as employment for trans women has always been difficult to find, she is at least cognizant of the systems of oppression. I think she very astutely demonstrates the ways in which perhaps a cis-woman of privilege might be conditioned to not even recognize the systems that oppress her. Perhaps this demonstrates the ways in which addressing the oppressions trans women of color face might alleviate other women’s oppression in ways similar to those discussed by the Combahee River Collective.