TransGriotLet Each Name...Sunday, November 20, 2011
TransGriot Note: This is Sass Rogando Sasot's speech to the 2011 Transgender Day of Remembrance event that happened in Amsterdam.
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/11/let-each-name.html
By Sass Rogando Sasot. Speech during the 2011 Amsterdam Transgender Day of Remembrance (Transgender Gedenkdag 2011) on 19 November 2011, 16.00-19.00, Homomonument.
As we recite the names of all those who we have lost to the violent hearts and hands of our fellow human beings, may we remember that these names don't just represent another statistic in the growing number of people who lost the grace of their lives to the indignity of transphobia. These names represent lives, real lives of people who lived, walked, cried, smiled, and loved among us. These names represent lives that deserved to be treated with nothing less than dignity.
