Results for: dead to me
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Sasha Wall Is the 8th Trans Woman Murdered in the US in 2018
The 29-year-old Black trans woman was shot and killed in South Carolina.
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Brandi Seals Is the 28th Trans Person Murdered in 2017
Seals’ family called the 28-year-old Houston native a beautiful and loving person.
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On The Upside, Texas’s Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill is Dead, So
During a never-ending cycle of negative news on our feeds, a failed discriminatory anti-trans bill is definitely something to celebrate.
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28-Year-Old Josie Berrios Is the 13th Trans Person of Color Killed in the U.S. This Year
Berrios was one of the original and most beloved performers at Ithaca’s House of Merlot, a drag performance troupe that founded the Ithaca College Drag show for the Trevor Project in 2012 and has been raising funds for LGBTQ youth ever since.
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Trans Latina Monica Loera Murdered in Texas, Misgendered by Police and Media for a Week
To add to the tragedy, when Loera was murdered, she was misgendered by the Austin Police and local media, something that happens far too often.
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Black Trans Woman T.T. Murdered In Chicago, Is At Least the 20th Trans Person Murdered In 2016
While we don’t know the exact number and almost certainly never will, we know that she is at least the 20th trans person murdered this year, most of them being Black and Brown trans women.
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Shante Thompson Becomes 8th Trans Person Murdered in US So Far This Year
Shante Thompson, a Houston native and Black trans woman, was shot along with a man named Willie Sims late last night and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Black Trans Woman Maya Young Murdered Two Days After Another, Veronica Banks Cano, Found Dead
According to the TransHealth Information Project, Maya Young was described by friends as “truly a funny girl who was mad REAL and LOYAL.”
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Amber Monroe Becomes the 12th TWOC Murdered in the US This Year, We Must #SayHerName
Monroe, a Black trans woman from Detroit was just twenty when her life was taken away from her.
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News Fix: Sandra Bland’s Death is Being Thoroughly Investigated Says Prosecutor and More News Stories
A NYPD officer is being investigated for assaulting a black queer woman, Black Lives Matter protestors take over the Netroots Nation conference, Rachel Dolezal still stands by her views of herself and more news stories!
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“Law & Order: SVU” Adds Its Voice to the “Trans Debate” with the Confusing, Horribly Depressing “Transgender Bridge”
At one point in my notes I wrote “I’m really happy that they didn’t murder this trans girl,” only to watch her die in the hospital two scenes later. That’s how the whole episode went — any time I would get hopeful, they would let me down again.
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Ashton O’Hara, Black, Trans and Genderfluid, Has Been Murdered; I’m Running Out of Hope
O’Hara, a Black trans and genderfluid 25-year-old, is the 14th trans person murdered this year and the fifth murdered in the last month.
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Immigrant Trans Women Can Now Be Detained in Women’s Facilities, But the Fight Isn’t Over Yet
U.S. Immigration officials announced they’ll allow detainees to be housed in facilities that match their gender identity. While this announcement sounds good, many think it will have minimal effect on the lives of actual trans detainees.
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Listening to the Living and the Dead: Ruminations on #justiceforLeelahAlcorn
This post/essay/etc will be an exploration into what justice for Leelah Alcorn might actually look like and some of what is needed to ‘fix society.’
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Pay Us Some Mind: On the “Tragic” Humanity of Black Trans Women
“The queer and trans community can’t continue to strip us of our racial oppression, just like the black community can’t solely blame our deaths on our gender identities. We’re targeted for both.”
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Media Refuses To Grant Trans Women Dignity — Even Murder Victims
Often, trans people are treated as little more than curiosities. Even when they lose their lives to hate crimes and other violence, they are rarely treated as more than clickbait.
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Remembering Us When We’re Gone, Ignoring Us While We’re Here: Trans Women Deserve More
As we honor the memory of those girls who have been murdered, ask how you’re helping the living.
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The New Yorker’s Skewed History of Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism Ignores Actual Trans Women
Michelle Goldberg’s coverage of radical feminists’ attack on trans woman is disturbingly one-sided.