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Remembering trans women & men lost to violence
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Linus....thank You so much for this thread!
We should never forget...... |
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Thanks for the thread Linus... and in case anyone hasn't seen the 'Remembering Our Dead' site before...
http://www.gender.org/remember/ |
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Thanks for the thread, Linus!
We recently had someone murdered in Baltimore. *deep sigh
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Fortunately no life lost, however, for those in San Fransisco, I just read there's going to be a rally tomorrow for a transwoman who was beaten this week.
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Idania Roberta Sevilla Raudales Location: Comayaguela City, Honduras Cause of Death: slit throat Date of Death: November 29, 2010 Idania was 58 years old. Source: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/02/01...in-two-months/ __________________________________________________ _____ Luisa Alvarado Hernández Location: Comayagüela City, Honduras Cause of Death: Stoned, beaten and burned Date of Death: December 22, 2010 Luisa was 23 years old. Source: http://hondurashumanrights.wordpress...e-in-honduras/ __________________________________________________ _____ Lady Óscar Martínez Salgado Location: Tegucigalpa, Honduras Cause of Death: Burned and stabbed Date of Death: December 22, 2010 Oscar was 43 years old. Source: http://hondurashumanrights.wordpress...e-in-honduras/ __________________________________________________ _____ Reana ‘Cheo’ Bustamente Location: Tegucigalpa, Honduras Cause of Death: Multiple stab wounds to the chest Date of Death: January 2, 2011 No age reported Source: http://hondurashumanrights.wordpress...e-in-honduras/ __________________________________________________ _____ Génesis Briget Makaligton Location: Comayagüela City, Honduras Cause of Death: Strangulation Date of Death: January 7, 2011 Génesis was approximately 23-27 years old. Source: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/02/01...in-two-months/ __________________________________________________ _____ Krissy Bates Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Cause of Death: Stabbed Date of Death: January 10, 2011 Krissy was 45 years old. Source: http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2...l_violence.php __________________________________________________ _____ Fergie Alice Ferg Location: San Pedro Sula, Honduras Cause of Death: Shot multiple times in the head and chest Date of Death: January 18, 2011 No age reported. Source: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/02/01...in-two-months/ __________________________________________________ _____ Tyra Trent Location: Baltimore, Maryland Cause of Death: Strangled Date of Death: February 19, 2011 Tyra was 25 years old. Source: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/0...n-vacant-home/ __________________________________________________ _____ Priscila Brandăo Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil Cause of Death: shot in the head Date of Death: March 2, 2011 Priscila was 22 years old. Source: http://www.allout.org/actions/priscila/taf __________________________________________________ _____ Marcal Camero Tye Location: Forrest City, Arkansas Cause of Death: Shot and dragged Date of Death: March 8, 2011 Marcal was 25 years old. Source: http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-marcal...,7869905.story __________________________________________________ _____ Shakira Harahap Location: Taman Lawang, Jakarta, Indonesia Cause of Death: shot Date of Death: March 10, 2011 Shakira was 28 years old. Source:http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/...killing/428416 __________________________________________________ _____ Miss Nate Nate (or Née) Eugene Davis Location: Houston, Texas Cause of Death: shot Date of Death: June 13, 2011 Née was 44 years old. Source: http://www.dallasvoice.com/trans-per...n-1079771.html __________________________________________________ _____ Lashai Mclean Location: Washington, D.C. Cause of Death: Shot Date of Death: July 20, 2011 Lashai was 23 years old. Source: http://www.metroweekly.com/news/?ak=6435 __________________________________________________ _____ Didem Location: Findikzade, Istanbul Cause of Death: Slit throat Date of Death: July 31, 2011 Didem was 26 years old. Source: http://www.tgeu.org/Didem_murdered_in_Istanbul __________________________________________________ _____ Camila Guzman Location: New York, New York Cause of Death: Stabbed several times in the back and neck. Date of Death: August 1, 2011 Camila was 38 years old. Source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...#ixzz1U9843Dpy __________________________________________________ _____ Gaby Location: Jalisco, Mexico Cause of Death: Beaten and burned. Date of Death: August 6, 2011 No age has been reported. Source: http://translate.google.com/translat...l-asesino.html __________________________________________________ _____ unidentified male dressed in women’s clothes Location: Paris, France Cause of Death: Stabbed Date of Death: August 24, 2011 She is estimated to be about 30 years old. Source: http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/pa...11-1577470.php __________________________________________________ _____ Gaurav Gopalan Location: Washington, D.C. Cause of Death: subarachnoid hemorrhage due to blunt-impact head trauma Date of Death: September 10, 2011 Gaurav was 35 years old. Source: http://metroweekly.com/news/?ak=6584 __________________________________________________ _____ Ramazan Çetin Location: Gaziantep, Turkey Cause of Death: Shot to death by her brother. Date of Death: October 6, 2011 She was 24 years old. Note: The transwoman had an accident and was seeking treatment at the local hospital. Her brother found out about the accident and went to the hospital and shot her to death in front of witnesses. Upon leaving the hospital he calmly said to the police, “I killed my brother as he was a transvestite. I cleaned my honour!” Source: http://www.advocate.com/Crime/Trans_...red_By_Brother __________________________________________________ _____ Shelley Hilliard Location: Detroit, Michigan Cause of Death: murdered, her body was decapitated and dismembered then burned. Date of Death: October 23, 2011 Shelley was 19 years old. Note: Her mother had to identify her torso at the medical examiner’s office on November 10, 2011. Source: http://tinyurl.com/7dlqula and http://tinyurl.com/6nodxyt and http://tinyurl.com/7s726rj __________________________________________________ _____ Jessica Rollon Location: Bergamo, Italy Cause of Death: Strangled Date of Death: October 30, 2011 Jessica was 32 years old. Note: Her body had been dumped on the side of the road and was not discovered for 3 days. As with most cases,the local news continues to disrespect her by using male pronouns and a male name. Source: http://tinyurl.com/7r6ez8g __________________________________________________ _____ Astrid Carolina López Cruz Location: Madrid, Spain Cause of Death: Beaten and stabbed Date of Death: November 4, 2011 Astrid was 30 years old. Source: http://www.abc.es/20111104/madrid/ab...-20111104.html __________________________________________________ _____ Cassidy Nathan Vickers Location: Hollywood, California Cause of Death: Gunshot wound to the chest Date of Death: November 17, 2011 Cassidy was 32 years old. Source:http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2...ywood_weho.php
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11-20-2011, 07:37 AM | #9 |
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weatherboi, thanks for posting this .
I read this article last night and it's horrible it bring you to the tears . These are just a cases that made a news . How many others we do not know about it ? |
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it is highly impossible to know how many trans sisters and brothers have fallen due to violence largely cause incidents go unreported and due to misreporting of their transgender identity. many of the articles attached to these names still use the wrong pronouns for the victims.
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Just wanted to get this back on the front page.
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Conference on Combatting Transphobic Hatred - Ankara
Really great video message for TDOR from delegates at the Combatting Transphobic Hatred conference in Ankara over the last few days, recognizing the high rate of violence and discrimination trans people in Turkey face on a regular basis:
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Transgender Day of Remembrance 2011: Nothing to Say
Filed By Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | November 20, 2011 11:30 AM | On the Transgender Day of Remembrance, I can find no fitting words of my own to say. Who's going to listen, anyway? I am too far from the days when I wanted to die, when people stopped to point and laugh at me on the street, when I lost my job and took anything I could find after months of joblessness threatened to put me on the street, when the need for human companionship led me down dangerous streets, Thumbnail image for Remembering-Our-Dead.jpgwhen I felt the imminence of violence in the air. I only have the memory of fear. I remember the gun leaning against the wall in the house of a man I had only recently met, and knowing that I would not live to see the morning. Our dead come most often from our most marginalized and vulnerable populations, the economically disadvantaged, people of color, sex workers. The world takes little notice of their deaths, except to scoff. We are not heard, and they know that no one will listen. When Duanna Johnson was beaten by that thug-like police officer in front of the cameras, punched her in the face as hard as he could with handcuffs across his knuckles, he knew in his soul that he could do it with impunity and he did. She later turned up dead. The jury couldn't agree on whether he'd done anything wrong. He later pled guilty and received only 24 months, and part of that was for tax evasion. If the police, who are the protectors of our society, can do this, there is a lesson for the brutes of our world -- no one is listening to their cries. There are thousands of stories like this. What is there to say in the face of this? What soothing words can we pour forth to assuage our guilt? Did the Roman citizens complain about the people torn to pieces by lions as the crowds watched? They did not; what would have been the point? There is no one to hear us. There is no one to hear us. From the 2008 Houston, Texas Transgender Day of Remembrance. Attendance was 150 people. Remember Me: My name was Duanna. While I moved from to Memphis to live as myself, I was forced into sex work by extreme poverty. One day, I was arrested and taken to the police station where one policeman held me down and the other began beating me while calling me a "he/she"€ť and a “faggot”. Fortunately, the police station'€™s video tape system caught it all on tape and someone leaked it to the press. Suddenly, a lot of people wanted to use me to make a point about how bad transgenders have it and I told them how bad it was. After the news died down, I went back to living in my apartment, which had no electricity or running water. My only friend was an elderly woman, but her husband told her to stop talking to me after he found out I was transgender. One night, I was standing on the corner and a couple of men ran up to me and shot me, leaving me to die in the street. I had been hoping to win my 1.3 million dollar lawsuit I had against the City of Memphis for the beatings I got by their police, but I won'€™t be able to pursue that now. The police have no leads and nobody has been held responsible for my murder. Location: Memphis, Tennessee Date of death: November 9, 2008 Cause of death: Shot to death
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Another TDOR video from Ankara. They had a march, and video shows one Turkish woman talk about the actions of the police trying to incite violence at the march, as well as the ongoing case of her friend (who was previously attacked by 3 police officers) who she believes the police came to try to intimidate.
I wonder what the real murder statistics for trans people are in Turkey, if assault by police is so frequent and goes unpunished. I also wonder how many more honour killings there are against trans people in Turkey and other Muslim nations, like the one mentioned on this year's list. It's frightening that the murders we don't know about likely hugely outnumber the murders we do know about. |
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yes , I agree with you 100 % ....., but what we can do about it except our ongoing fight and to be pro active and even so we are being ignored . I just read article last night what happened in India , it was a poor article on CNN about what happened over there , very limited info and I am hoping that Anderson Cooper wild get involved to more details . How transgenders got burned on that day due to electric failure ? I doubt that littler info .I feel it's just cover up . |
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http://www.gender.org/remember/
You know every year, every time I look at that page I feel a little sick and as I look at the beautiful faces again this morning I just think about the other night laughing over pizza with my little bro and listening to his recent adventures and dreams of the future, about one of the sweetest kindest women I know who's made me laugh and smile just about more than anybody, a man who I know just a bit but you don't have to know him well to know how much he loves his wife, kids and life and how he physically puts himself out there educating people to make a better world for others... and a guy who just lost his mom... etc. etc and then the idea that anybody would want to cause them pain makes me furious... If any one is sick and a danger to nOrMaL society it is that cop in the video up there and others like him... and when I see that vid w/ that cop I'd rather not say what I'd like to do to him. Sry for the rant but it all seems so stupid and I am just especially irritated by all this stupid shit people do right now. Peace Jett
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TDOR events guide
Here is a directory of Transgender Day of Remembrance events being held internationally:
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Transgender Day of Remembrance Orange County Equality CoalitionThere will be a memorial service and then a candlelight vigil; . The sponsors include OCEC, Church of the Foothills, OCFTM, PFLAG, TG Rainbow, Shift Happens, and The Center OC. Time: November 18, 2012 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm Location: Church of the Foothills Street: 19211 Dodge Ave City/Town: Santa Ana, CALIF Event Type: Candlelight vigil Organized By: Orange County Equality Coalition, Shift Happens, The Center OC |
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Virtual TGOR Event Online
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If you do not have an event near you, or you cannot get to one, here is a new International Virtual event online. It is being hosted by Standing on the Side of Love, an interfaith group sponsored by the UUA. The service will be hosted at: http://www.livestream.com/QuestforMeaning at 8:00 PM Eastern Time on Monday, November 19. Please join Standing on the Side of Love for a special interfaith service commemorating the Transgender Day of Remembrance—a service that can be attended by anyone with a computer and internet access. Together, we will mourn those are no longer with us, while also offering hope, beauty, and celebration of the living. Everyone is welcome to worship in this online space. Facebook info: https://www.facebook.com/events/432796256776510/ |
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