Three More April African-American Transwomen Deaths
I’m beyond sick and tired of being sick and tired of the near genocidal levels of anti-trans violence that are taking away far too many under 30 transwomen of color before they’ve had a chance to live their lives. We are not only losing them, but their potential contributions and talents toward building all the communities we intersect and interact with. TransGriot April 5, 2013 29 year old Kelly Young, 30 year old Ashley Sinclair and 20 year old Ce Ce Acoff until this month were living their trans lives. Now they are all dead because they were fighting the just battle for self determination of their own identities. Translation from Jordana’s eloquent quote: they died because somebody hated the fact they were trans and arrogantly presumed they had the power to erase them from this plane of existence. Kelly died on April 3 in Baltimore, MD. 48 hours later
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“Three More April African-American Transwomen Deaths” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to violence, safety, and dehumanization, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
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The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning violence, safety, and dehumanization. Published in 2013 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at that moment.
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Three More April African-American Transwomen Deaths | The Transadvocate http://t.co/weepLaJZka
Heather A Scott (@TransNewsWire)
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Via @transadvocate: Three More April African-American Transwomen Deaths http://t.co/7zVCyUspkA #trans #lgbtqia
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