In Memory of Terri Williams Moore (1941–1976)

A trans historian considers the backward progress of the way media represents our dead. By Kat Listen to this article If you are thinking of transitioning but have yet to start the process you have probably spent some time looking for ‘trans stuff.’ Yes, that would include information about how to about the transition process medically and legally; I’m just old enough to remember when the Erickson Educational Foundation pamphlets (remember those?) weren’t too far out of date. But for many people that also includes finding – and keeping copies of – items about transitioning and/or people who have transitioned. Old newspaper articles… Old magazine articles… That was the extent of it when I was young and feeling helpless, blocked from going forward. No internet. Even finding old news items from outside your locality on microfilm – if you knew of their existence – was a daunting task. But now

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