71 names, thus far, and an addendum to my last post about Day to End Violence

[Natasha]

71 names, thus far, and an addendum to my last post about Day to End Violence

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/71_names_thus_far_and_an_addendum_to_my.php
Gina de Vries
December 17, 2008 10:00 AM

Oh, God. I'm letting out a long and sad breath.

I spent my morning researching names of murdered sex workers for International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Melissa Gira Grant from Sex Workers Outreach Project sent me a list of 50 names to add to. I gathered 21 new names, with deaths dating from 1996-2008. I'm not even done with all my research yet.

A disproportionately high number of the people on the list were trans women and MTF-spectrum gender-non-conforming people. As a queer, femme, genderqueer cissexual woman who builds my life, chosen family, and community -- and especially my sex worker and sex worker ally community -- with trans women, that fact just breaks my heart so bad.