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RIP Agnes Torres Hernandez

Started by Shana A, March 17, 2012, 12:26:32 PM

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Shana A

March 17, 2012, 12:26:32 PM
Friday, March 16, 2012
RIP Agnes Torres Hernandez
Posted by Monica Roberts at 7:00 PM

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/03/rip-agnes-torres-hernandez.html

The international community of trans activists is one in which we are not only a close knit bunch, we tend to form friendships for life as we get to know each other.

When we're not busy e-mailing and chatting with each other trading strategy, tactics and information as to what has worked and what hasn't in our struggles in our various nations to advance trans human rights coverage, we'll quickly ->-bleeped-<- to what's happening in our personal lives or give each other the moral and emotional support we'll need to continue to do a job we all know can be a tough one. 

We are also painfully aware that in some nations, being an out, proud and open trans human rights activist takes tremendous courage because it can lead to being harassed by the powers that be you are fighting.  It can also be a death sentence as Cynthia Nicole Moreno's 2009 death in Honduras sadly pointed out.

Sadly, I won't get the pleasure to meet Agnes Torres Hernandez.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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