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Title: RIP Chrissie Bates
Post by: Shana A on January 14, 2011, 09:23:39 AM
Post by: Shana A on January 14, 2011, 09:23:39 AM
RIP Chrissie Bates
Posted by Melissa McEwan at Thursday, January 13, 2011
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2011/01/rip-chrissie-bates.html (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.
Posted by Melissa McEwan at Thursday, January 13, 2011
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2011/01/rip-chrissie-bates.html (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.