Transgender Day of Remembrance 2011: Nothing to Say
Filed By Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | November 20, 2011 11:30 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/11/transgender_day_of_remembrance_2011_nothing_to_say.phpOn the Transgender Day of Remembrance, I can find no fitting words of my own to say. Who's going to listen, anyway? I am too far from the days when I wanted to die, when people stopped to point and laugh at me on the street, when I lost my job and took anything I could find after months of joblessness threatened to put me on the street, when the need for human companionship led me down dangerous streets, when I felt the imminence of violence in the air. I only have the memory of fear.
I remember the gun leaning against the wall in the house of a man I had only recently met, and knowing that I would not live to see the morning.
Our dead come most often from our most marginalized and vulnerable populations, the economically disadvantaged, people of color, sex workers. The world takes little notice of their deaths, except to scoff.
