I went into heavy fact-checking mode in my piece for Assigned today, writing about what we do and do not know about the numbers of trans people who die violently.
The article I called out was conservative bullshit published by the National Review, but they're not the only ones who I've seen treat the HRC list as if it represented every trans person to have died violently. #trans#TDOR#news#journalism#factcheck
#Queer Activists Redecorated key sites of transphobic cultural production and policymaking across #Naarm in observance of #TransDayofResistance
Excerpt: "#TERFism loves #Zionism loves racism loves classism, and they all love pigs — but we bash back against the reactionary culture wars designed to divide and conquer working classes on stolen lands everywhere! We resist settler colonial Zionism just as we resist the gender fascism brought to stolen lands. While different but interconnected genocides are taking place in front of our eyes across the globe: from this colony to #Gaza to #florida we cannot just ‘remember’ the dead, we must fight like hell for the living."
I'm out at work (being part of the community actually landed me the job since I now work for a program that helps queer people get jobs; I'm also out to our clients) and was asked if I wanted to write something for #TDoR. I said absolutely.
I'm not going to recount what I said, it was short and benign because I didn't want to re-traumarize anyone who was obligated to be there, but in the course of writing my little speech I looked up the names of the Canadians we've lost this year.
Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we commemorate and honor our transgender and non-binary siblings who lost their lives to anti-trans violence.
Let us continue to advocate for those who are no longer present as well as those who are. The time to show solidarity is now. On this day, and every day, we stand with you.
The producer and singer of this track came out as a trans women later in life and went by the name Nini Nobless. Sadly she passed away from cancer at the age of 74 in August 2023.
Absolute stomper of a track and so tender and sexy and queer. They played it at the last Beauty and the Beat down in London and I was tripping so hard, I felt like I was in heaven (either the religious one or the nightclub).
Bought it on vinyl and it just arrived today. Going to spin this one at every opportunity. I really feel it deeply.
TDoR 2023: 321 trans people were murdered over the last year. Today we mourn the dead. We fight like hell for the living today, tomorrow, & every day to come. 🏳️⚧️ #TDoR
heute ist der #transdayofremembrance. Wir gedenken heute den 321 Opfern von Gewalt, die im vergangenen Jahr ermordet wurden, aber auch denjenigen, die ihr Leben aufgrund fehlender Akzeptanz aufgaben.