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What Two Bloodied Tragedies Can Teach About Transgender Women of Color

Started by Shana A, August 25, 2011, 10:37:23 AM

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Shana A

August 25, 2011, 10:37:23 AM
Posted on Advocate.com August 25, 2011 04:00:00 AM ET
What Two Bloodied Tragedies Can Teach About Transgender Women of Color
By Julie Bolcer

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/08/25/Killing_Fields_Tragedies_Spotlight_Challenges_for_Trans_Women_of_Color/

A recent wave of violence, including murders in New York City and Washington, D.C., puts an urgent focus on the predicament faced by many transgender women of color.

Earlier this month, advocates, friends, and elected officials gathered in East Harlem to mourn Camila Guzman, a transgender woman found stabbed to death in her apartment August 1. Sad and defiant, with personal tributes and chants of "queremos justicia" ("we want justice"), the evening marked the latest somber recognition for a transgender victim. It also delivered a potent reminder of the multilayered discrimination transgender women of color face because of their race, gender identity, and related factors.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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