Author: Malakai Cote

Author

Malakai Cote

Dr. Coté is of Exoduster lineage that also extends back to the Mende and Yoruba peoples of present day Sierra Leone and Nigeria. He is the Executive Director of the Gender Health Center in Sacramento, CA and fam is also the Clinical Training Director at University of California, Santa Barbara's Hosford specialty clinic, Kindred Collective for Healing and Liberatory Traditions which trains the next generation of healers and scholars working towards liberation, rooted in ethics of love and care. Fam primarily works with folxs navigating the impacts of intergenerational trauma and resilience whose complex and diverse identities span human/personhood experience.

Black Love, Rooted

Ancestral Gratitude: Honoring Black Trans Lives and Legacies

by Malakai Cote November 26, 2025 0

Our trans elders and transcestors have always provided the blueprints for how to live and love expansively. Through courage and care, they showed us how to nurture... Read more.