#trans day of remembrance
TodayisTransgenderDayofRemembranceandResilience.
This day is an incredibly important day for the trans community. Today, we must take the time to mourn our trans and nonbinary siblings who were lost to anti-trans violence and suicide. We must remember how beautiful, strong, and amazing they were. We must remember the struggles they endured and the sacrifices they made to make things better for our community. We must remember everything they suffered through and everything they did and give our thanks to them.
And in mourning of these incredible individuals, we are reminded why we continue to fight. We fight not only for those of us who we’ve lost but also for those of us who are still here. We must fight against our internal struggles, transphobia, anti-trans legislation, people who seek to harm us, and more to work towards a better future for ourselves, the future our late siblings dreamed of seeing. Wewillcreateabetter,brighterfutureforourselvesandourcommunity!!!!!
But to do this, we have to work together. We need to uplift each other, give each other love, and offer acceptance and understanding to one another. We need to support each other as much as we can, or we will not make it. We have to stick together. We must be united to win this fight, to stop violence against us, and to do our trans and nonbinary siblings justice.
And let us not forget that, just like our trans ancestors, we are strong, too! We are resilient, too! We can make it through this fight and come out on top! Even at our weakest, we continue to fight for ourselves and for each other! And even when we can’t fight anymore, we still have thousands of trans and nonbinary siblings next to us and fighting for us! Because our community is full of neverending strength and bravery. Our community is full of remarkable individuals who never give up, who REFUSE to give up! Neverforgetthat.
Neverforgetthosewhofoughtforus.Andneverforgetthereasonswhywecontinuetofight♡♡♡♡♡
Here’s the accessible version:
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance and Resilience.
This day is an incredibly important day for the trans community. Today, we must take the time to mourn our trans and nonbinary siblings who were lost to anti-trans violence and suicide. We must remember how beautiful, strong, and amazing they were. We must remember the struggles they endured and the sacrifices they made to make things better for our community. We must remember everything they suffered through and everything they did and give our thanks to them.
And in mourning of these incredible individuals, we are reminded why we continue to fight. We fight not only for those of us who we’ve lost but also for those of us who are still here. We must fight against our internal struggles, transphobia, anti-trans legislation, people who seek to harm us, and more to work towards a better future for ourselves, the future our late siblings dreamed of seeing. We will create a better, brighter future for ourselves and our community!!!!!
But to do this, we have to work together. We need to uplift each other, give each other love, and offer acceptance and understanding to one another. We need to support each other as much as we can, or we will not make it. We have to stick together. We must be united to win this fight, to stop violence against us, and to do our trans and nonbinary siblings justice.
And let us not forget that, just like our trans ancestors, we are strong, too! We are resilient, too! We can make it through this fight and come out on top! Even at our weakest, we continue to fight for ourselves and for each other! And even when we can’t fight anymore, we still have thousands of trans and nonbinary siblings next to us and fighting for us! Because our community is full of neverending strength and bravery. Our community is full of remarkable individuals who never give up, who REFUSE to give up! Never forget that.
Never forget those who fought for us. And never forget the reasons why we continue to fight ♡♡♡♡♡
Today is transgender day of remembrance. I’m sure plenty of people are seeing posts go by about remembrance, better said than I could manage- and so, I’d instead like to ask people to spare a thought for the lives, work and struggles of people still living, too. It’s a commonly repeated refrain that it is easier to “remember” the most vulnerable among us once they are gone than it is to pay them mind when they’re alive. It’s also very true.
Want to help people still alive? Particularly groups helping those who face the brunt of violence, such as transgender women of color? Check out these places:
- Lambda legal (committed to LGBT and HIV+ legal work, does trans outreach specifically)
- Trans lifeline (suicide hotline by and for trans people in the US)
- Sylvia Rivera law project (campaigns broadly on trans rights and provides resources)
- Mermaids UK (UK charity that supports trans youth and their families)
- Sparkle (the UK’s biggest trans charity)
In honor of Trans Day of Remembrance, I drew portraits of all the trans people who were killed since this time last year that I could find pictures of. (Two are included as written names only–K.C. Haggard and Fernanda Coty Olmos.)
TDOR is a time for remembering all the trans lives lost to a system designed to fail them, and more of us have been killed this year than in any other. Plus, this is only the ones who were murdered; so many more are lost to suicide and drug overdose. Laverne was right–this is a state of emergency.
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Happy Trans Day of Remembrance.
Take time today to remember all the lives lost due to transphobic acts of harassment and violence. 350+ people just this year have died due to physical violence against trans people and countless commit suicide every year. Our siblings are losing lives to hate but we will not let them be forgotten.
Take care of yourselves today as you grieve and ache. Give yourself the grace to feel. Spread love to your trans siblings, today and every day.
Much love, Beloved
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Wishing us all an honorable Transgender Day of Remembrance and Resilience ️⚧️❤
I decided to have some fun this Trans Awareness Week and sketch up some canon trans characters from shows I watched.
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day where we remember the transgender people that were murdered in the last year. Trans people, especially trans women of color and sex workers face violence at a wildly disproportionate rate.
As we remember those taken from our communities we tell the world that we are not gone and are not silent in the face of a world that often wants to destroy us rather than acknowledge us. We also give the dead the dignity of their names and pronouns that are too often erased the moment they are killed. And we look inward as communities to challenge ourselves to be more supportive and inclusive to the most marginalized of us. Too often the movements, resources, and spaces we are making do not benefit those of us who are in the most pain and/or are dying.
Take a moment today to think on the emptiness left behind by these murders. Learn the victims’ names, pronouns, and dreams. Think about all that they could have done and changed and built. The vacuum left behind is towering. It can feel overwhelming. Let that feeling of loss sit with you for a moment and feel the weight. But then, my trans siblings, fill it. Create and sing and love and teach and fill that vacuum space with the beauty that it deserves. Support other trans people in using their voices to fill that space. And fight to keep our communities safe. We are all worthy of so much more.
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Wishing everyone strength and community support on this transgender day of remembrance.
TDOR 2020. Each candle represents one of the 350 transgender individuals killed this year globally. The United States, where I live, had 37 cases of fatal violence against trans people.
On this day, we remember those we have lost.
Statistics reported by Forbes and the Human Rights Campaign.
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High resolution poster of punk rock, indigenous radical queer warrior, Fred Martinez. As with all our posters, feel liberated to print out and wheatpaste at will!
Fred Martinez was nádleehí, a male-bodied person with a feminine nature, a special gift according to his ancient Navajo culture. But the place where two discriminations meet is a dangerous place to live, and Fred became one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at sixteen. Between tradition and controversy, sex and spirit, and freedom and fear, lives the truth—the bravest choice you can make is to be yourself.R.I.S.E.
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http://twospirits.org/
https://www.facebook.com/RISEIndigenous
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TRANS DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
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Today we honour all those who have lost their lives to transphobic violence and discrimination.
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Happy Trans Day of Remembrance and Resilience!
A queue’d, quick sketch before I go away sans Wifi.Even just since I came out, and even with the setbacks, things are getting easier for the people coming after me. I’m grateful for - and proud of - that every day.
[Description for screen readers: the phrase “Remember the dead, and fight like hell for the living” handwritten in black on a white circle. Within the white circle is a black circle, showing two hands holding onto each other, and one helping the other up. One hand wears a pink and blue bracelet with “TDORR” handwritten in white. Surrounding the hands are burning candles in trans pride colors: baby blue, pink, and white.]
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Today, November 20, is the Trans Day of Remembrance, a day to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia.
We honor those who found the courage to be true to themselves in the face of transphobia.
Although I am not trans myself, day in and day out, your stories have given me the courage to live life to the fullest and not let adversity and homophobia be my downfall.
Those whose lives were taken shall never be forgotten for they are still among us. They are the very foundation of our community. We are not just a collection of random queer individuals. We have come together with a purpose. There is still a long way to go. We must look up to our trans siblings who were true to themselves despite being condemned, hated on, and taken away from us, and draw courage from them.
Violence and transphobia will never win. Community, truth, and acceptance shall prevail.
In your footsteps of truth and courage I shall follow. Now and always.
Thank you.
Rest in peace.
Rita Hester (1963-1998) || 20/11/19
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance, a day to honour all those who have lost their lives to transphobic violence and discrimination.
The murder of Rita Hester in her own apartment, two days before her 35th birthday, inspired the “Remembering Our Dead” web project and the TDoR.
If listening to people describe Rita Hester is even a fraction as pleasurable as it was to be around her, then she must have been a phenomenon.
Rev. Monroe describes her as “ebullient, glamorous, and a ‘sister-diva-friend’ with attitude, sassiness, and style.”
“I wasn’t a close friend of Rita’s but knew her like one knows folks in the community where you laugh and lollygag and play catch-up with them,” she told The Daily Beast.
Hester was a rock and roll musician and a performer who danced at venues like Jacque’s Cabaret. At the time of her death, she had been out as a woman for several years. She was well established in the community, a beloved and ubiquitous Boston presence. Everyone knew Rita and vice versa.
331 trans people have been reported murdered worldwide, this year. The real number is estimated to be higher.
One of the several ways TDoR can be observed is by supporting trans rights organisations. If, like me, you live in Ireland, check out TENI - the Trans Equality Network Ireland. This organisation is ‘dedicated to ending transphobia, including stigma, discrimination and inequality and continues in the struggle for social, political and legal recognition of trans people in Ireland.’
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living.
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21.11.20 TokyoTransMarch / #TransDayOfRemembrance
On this trans day of remembrance I’d like to suggest that we all try to make more of an effort in the wlw community to include, support, listen to, uplift, learn from, and celebrate our trans siblings! Or what’s the point of being in a community?? And a reminder that trans women are women, and trans lesbians are lesbians, and enrich lesbianism. I hope one day that we will not need to have a trans day of remembrance any longer, and I want to try and do my part to help that!
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Honor those killed in anti-trans acts of violence; mourn the lights in our community that have gone out; say their names and tell their stories; and vow to fight for those still with us.
