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The Trans Day of Remembrance is November 20th this year. Normally, I don't make news posts about all of the awareness icons that show up on the sidebar, but this one is important enough to me that I need to.
This day was started by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a trans activist, in memory of Rita Hester. She was a transgender woman killed in 1998. The day is a vigil for all of the transgender people killed in the previous year.
"The Transgender Day of Remembrance seeks to highlight the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence. I am no stranger to the need to fight for our rights, and the right to simply exist is first and foremost. With so many seeking to erase transgender people -- sometimes in the most brutal ways possible -- it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered, and that we continue to fight for justice."
- Transgender Day of Remembrance founder Gwendolyn Ann Smith
This may not be a very fun topic for Aywas, but this our reality -- mine, yours, everyone's. While it's difficult to hold a vigil online, please at least look at the list of transgender people killed this past year and remember them, think of them, at least once during the upcoming twenty four hours.
I would really appreciate it.
I personally donated $100 to GLAAD in honor of the day.
You can pick up a Transgender Pride Flag from the Advent Calendar today.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:03am
- Kita🦊
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:16am
Astra (#16365) it's sad, isn't it? That people are so filled with hate that they literally kill someone for being themselves. I can't understand the reasoning myself, to be honest. Disagreement is one thing but... murder?
- Mortem
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:16am
As a transman who has dealt with hate and bigotry and death threats I am glad there is an awareness to the trans people who have been killed they need recognition and to be rembered. I hope this opens peoples eyes about this.
- Firehazard
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:17am
Slash, ilu. Aywas is the only site I know of where there is such acceptance and support. -- Deja
- Diva
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:17am
While it is a good cause, maybe you should add a trigger warning to the news post? It's kind of hard to read and it might need a trigger
Posts like this in general should have a trigger warning just in case.
- Sandy
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:18am
How sad. How horribly sad. Prayers and love, and wishes for world peace and acceptance.
- SandTiger
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:24am
Personally, I think people SHOULD be triggered by this. It's terrible and needs to be shocking. Thank you very much, sincerely, Aywas admins.
- ♎ Astra ♎
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:25am
Kita & Riri (#3988) It really is. I don't get it at all. I don't understand that kind of hatred.
- ♎ Astra ♎
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:26am
1) I clearly don't know how to ping properly... let me try that again: Kita & Riri (#3988)
2) What's a trigger warning...?
- Cthulhu's Cousin
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Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:27am
Thank you so much. I appreciate this so much, and I'm sure my friends do too.
Posted on: Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:16am
Thank you for this, I'm a fan of a few Trans people and I support them 100%. Astra is right, one death is one too many. RIP to all who have died, you will never be forgotten. ;-;