Ten Years-400 Dead...And Counting
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2008/11/ten-years-400-deadand-counting.htmlMonica Roberts
11/20/2008
Today is the tenth anniversary of the Transgender Day of Remembrance. It's the day transgender people around the world pause and remember our fallen brothers and sisters along with our allies and friends.
It's also a day of mixed emotions for me. One of the people we'll be remembering this year is one of my friends.
Instead of lighting 30 candles on her birthday cake next month, instead we'll be lighting one candle for Nakhia 'Nikki' Williams at our 7 PM EST ceremony in the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary's Caldwell Chapel later tonight. She unfortunately is one of the 27 transpeople killed this year due to the senseless anti-transgender violence directed at us.
