November 20, 2011

  • Transgender Day of Remembrance

    In the past, I might've written something more. I most likely would have written a long eulogy trying to hammer home the importance of such an event, such a memory.

    But I'm too tired. Undoubtedly life taking a toll on me as well but also tired of so much death. Which, really, is less of a response and effort than They deserve.

    In the first nine months of 2011, 116 transgender people have been killed around the world; 221 since Novermber 20th, last year. There have been at least 681 murders in 50 countries since 2008.

    In your own way, do something to remember these dead. Do something outside of the expected gender roll you ascribe to (or are forced to inhabit), if you don't already do so. Say a prayer. Or just reflect: http://www.rememberingourdead.org/index.html#.

    But let no one forget.

     

    Réquiem ætérnam dona eis Dómine; et lux perpétua lúceat eis. Requiéscant in pace…