Stephanie and Ukea: 10 Years Later

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Stephanie and Ukea: 10 Years Later


Monica Roberts | Posted: 08/12/2012 12:55 pm


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/monica-roberts/stephanie-ukea-10-years_b_1770311.html


On August 12, 2002 on the same 50th and C Street corner in SE Washington, DC in which the car accident occurred that eventually took transwoman Tyra Hunter's life due to medical transphobia, transteens Stephanie Thomas and Ukea Davis died in a hail of automatic gunfire.

Ten years later, this double murder still hasn't been solved. It saddens me and other DC-area transpeople who remember that horrific crime that it hasn't.

As I said in the 2011 post I wrote at my home blog on the ninth anniversary of this despicable murder:

    These young sisters died because somebody hated them so much for transitioning that they felt they had the right to violently terminate their lives. I don't want people or the trans community to forget what happened to these young African descended transwomen or why they are no longer here on planet Earth with us.

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TransGriot



Stephanie and Ukea-Ten Years Later


Sunday, August 12, 2012


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/08/stephanie-and-ukea-ten-years-later.html





TransGriot Note: I was originally just going to publish this piece here, but decided it needed a major signal boost.   Since HuffPo Gay Voices extended me an invitation to write for them, I decided to have it posted there as well since the 10th Anniversary of the execution style killings of Stephanie Thomas and Ukea Davis and the fact their killers are still walking around free needed to be pointed out.