RIP Chrissie Bates

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RIP Chrissie Bates
Posted by Melissa McEwan at Thursday, January 13, 2011

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2011/01/rip-chrissie-bates.html

Something I've been thinking about over the past couple of days is how a lot of the language of violence in this culture isn't actually explicitly violent. Marginalizing language is implicitly violent language, because people who are marginalized are at increased risk of violence.

I was thinking about this all day today, working a post in my head in the vague way that posts tend to do before I actually write them.

And then I read this article about Chrissie Bates, a trans woman who is Minneapolis' first homicide victim of 2011, a trans woman we'll be remembering in November of this year, when we do the grim work of compiling the names of the dead for the Transgender Day of Remembrance.