Friday, November 19, 2010, citizens of Maryville will hold their 1st Transgender Day of Remembrance. This is the 12th year that transgender people and their allies have honored those that were needlessly murdered through anti-transgender bias. We count it a good year when the death toll has decreased from one year to the next. Yet at the same time we know that most violent crime against transgender people goes unreported as such. The fallen that we will honor are only the ones that we know of. Our Transgender Day of Remembrance will actually be two separate events: a peaceful roadside (more…)
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Transgender Day of Remembrance 2010
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Knoxville TDoR 2009
Tonight I attended a Day of Remembrance like no other before. As expected, there was a candlelight vigil and a reading of the names of all of the transgender people killed in 2009. What made this different is what happened before hand. Before the vigil, about 15 people, mostly college students, gathered at the busy intersection of Kingston Pike and Concord, just a block from the Cumberland Strip. The participants held signs, sharing with passing drivers that today was the Transgender Day of Remembrance, how many transgender people have been killed in 2009, and other statements. For about an hour, (more…)
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11th Transgender Day of Remembrance
Jaime, my love and my life, you gotta love her. As we approach the 11th Transgender Day of Remembrance, tomorrow, November 20, 2009, I want to share with you something Jaime posted on her facebook profile: “This week I will have my profile picture blacked out in observance of TDOR (transgender day of remembrance). I am doing this for the many faces that will no longer be seen. Crimes and murders against transgender individuals have nearly doubled this year alone. In many cases when a transgender individual is killed their bodies are mutilated and often the perpetrators aren’t prosecuted; frequently (more…)
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Transgender Day of Remembrance 2010 Planning
*** Click here to see the newest information *** I’m still considering whether or not to organize a demonstration/candlelight vigil for Transgender Day of Remembrance 2010. This would be the first time such an event was held in Maryville. Last year, Riley Hill, a college student at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, organized an event that I really liked. If you view the photo album above you can see that several people gathered on the corner of Concord Rd./Neyland Dr. and Kingston Pk. There Conrad Honiker and others had made poster board signs for us to hold to inform (more…)
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