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11/20/2014

All of Our Lives Matter! Trans Lives Matter!

November 14th-20th is Trans Awareness Week, leading up to Trans Day of Remembrance on the 20th. This is time to raise visibility for trans and gender non conforming people, speak the names of our dead, fight for the living and address issues that affect our communities and loved ones.

Here are a few articles and videos that TJFP is reading and watching as we relfect on what this week is about.  Please don’t forget how innovative, resilient, courageous and breathtaking we are.

All of our lives matter. Trans lives matter.

**WARNING: Some of the content in the following articles and videos may address violence, anti-trans violence, sexual assault, mis-pronouning and language that may not be suitable for all audiences**

Articles:

Remembering Us When We’re Gone, Ignoring Us While We’re Here: Trans Women Deserve More by Morgan Collado

Trans Remembrance and Resistance by Chase Strangio

Transgender Day of Remembrance: Critique is Resistance; Resistance is Revolution by L’lerrét Jazelle Ailith

Transgender Day of Remembrance: A Day to Honor the Dead and the Living by Shelby Chestnut

Mother, Transgender Daughter Seek Acceptance In Small-Town Wisconsin by By Galen Druke

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwyabmzqghE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUke4_LOUA4

 

 

 

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