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Title: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009
Post by: Butterfly on November 21, 2009, 01:13:18 AM
Post by: Butterfly on November 21, 2009, 01:13:18 AM
Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009
Feministing
20 November 2009
http://www.feministing.com/archives/018984.html (http://www.feministing.com/archives/018984.html)
This year the TGEU Trans Murder Monitoring project TDOR 2009 update has collected information about over 160 people killed because of other people's violent reaction to their trans presentation or identity. These numbers represent only those people we know about. We don't know how many trans folks were actually murdered this year - our identities are so rarely recognized and there is still so little awareness about trans issues and the violence trans folks face that it is safe to say many murders of trans folks went unreported.
Feministing
20 November 2009
http://www.feministing.com/archives/018984.html (http://www.feministing.com/archives/018984.html)
This year the TGEU Trans Murder Monitoring project TDOR 2009 update has collected information about over 160 people killed because of other people's violent reaction to their trans presentation or identity. These numbers represent only those people we know about. We don't know how many trans folks were actually murdered this year - our identities are so rarely recognized and there is still so little awareness about trans issues and the violence trans folks face that it is safe to say many murders of trans folks went unreported.
Title: Re: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009
Post by: Janet_Girl on November 21, 2009, 01:34:00 AM
Post by: Janet_Girl on November 21, 2009, 01:34:00 AM
I went to my very first one this year and I found it moving. Now if we can get it so there were a lot less names next year,
Janet
Janet
Title: Re: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009
Post by: heatherrose on November 21, 2009, 01:48:18 AM
Post by: heatherrose on November 21, 2009, 01:48:18 AM
Quote from: Janet Lynn on November 21, 2009, 01:34:00 AMI went to...
:icon_blink: ...and I stayed at the house and watched reruns of the National Tiddly Winks Championships.
Title: Re: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009
Post by: deviousxen on November 21, 2009, 01:53:10 AM
Post by: deviousxen on November 21, 2009, 01:53:10 AM
*nods head*
Title: Re: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009
Post by: Janet_Girl on November 21, 2009, 01:54:44 AM
Post by: Janet_Girl on November 21, 2009, 01:54:44 AM
Quote from: heatherrose on November 21, 2009, 01:48:18 AM
:icon_blink: ...and I stayed at the house and watched reruns of the National Tiddly Winks Championships.
That is because you are such a sports nut. And it was her first trip on our local Max train system. raspberry at Heather
Title: Re: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009
Post by: heatherrose on November 21, 2009, 02:05:19 AM
Post by: heatherrose on November 21, 2009, 02:05:19 AM
When I recuperate, I will post links to videos of the speakers
and the reading of the names of this past year's dead.
Title: Re: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009
Post by: LordKAT on November 21, 2009, 02:37:11 AM
Post by: LordKAT on November 21, 2009, 02:37:11 AM
Tiddly winks..sport? hmmm...