Links for Transgender Day of Remembrance

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Ava Vidal: Transgender Day of Remembrance: why you, yes you, need to care
Eòghann Renfroe: Transgender Day of Remembrance Reminds Society That Trans Lives Are Valuable
Janet Mock: A Letter To My Sisters Who Showed Up for Islan Nettles & Ourselves at the Vigil
TransGriot: 238 names
Miss saHHara: I was jailed in Nigeria for being trans, now I’m proud and free
Kellee Terrell: Why the Transgender Day of Remembrance Matters to Black People
Samantha Allen: Transgender, dead and forgotten:

How could we shorten this list of the dead? What kind of politics would that goal require?

Because most people on the list lack basic economic security, it must be socialist; because the list is primarily made up of women, it must be feminist; because most of those women are people of color, it must be anti-racist. Because so many of these transgender women of color are sex workers, it must adopt a nuanced approach to sex work that respects its economic and personal necessity without ignoring its dangers. And because so many of these sex workers are in countries like Brazil and Mexico, it must be internationalist. If this politics seems impossible, consider that the safety of transgender people is impossible in its absence.

For the 238 people on this list and the countless others whose deaths were never reported, who were misgendered in death, or for whom suicide was the only way out of a world which rejected them.

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