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November 21, 2009, 01:13:18 AM
Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009
Feministing
20 November 2009


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.
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Janet_Girl

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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
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heatherrose

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November 21, 2009, 01:48:18 AM Last Edit: November 21, 2009, 01:53:45 AM by Janet Lynn


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.



"I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you,
I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

So let's make the most of this beautiful day,
Since we're together, we might as well say,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor?" - Fred Rogers
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Janet_Girl

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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
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heatherrose

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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.


"I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you,
I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

So let's make the most of this beautiful day,
Since we're together, we might as well say,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor?" - Fred Rogers
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LordKAT

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November 21, 2009, 02:37:11 AM
Tiddly winks..sport? hmmm...
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