It occurs to me that, while winter-season holiday shopping and promotions often start sometime during the summer, September has arrived and I haven’t done a thing for TDOR.
Neither, I am betting, have you. The list:
• Zella Ziona, 21, Montgomery County, Maryland, 15 October 2015.
• Kiesha Jenkins, 22, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6 October 2015
• Tamara Dominiguez, 36, Kansas City, Missouri, 15 August 2015
• Elisha Walker, 20, Smithfield, North Carolina, 13 August 2015
• Kandis Capri, 35, Phoenix, Arizona, 11 August 2015
• Shade Schuler, 22, Dallas Texas, 29 July 2015
• Amber Monroe, 20, Detroit, Michigan, 8 August 2015
• K. C. Haggard, 66, Fresno, California, 23 July 2015
• India Clarke, 25, Tampa, Florida, 21 July 2015
• Ashton O’Hara, 25, Detroit, Michigan, 14 July 2015
• Jasmine Collins, 32, Kansas City, Missouri, 23 June 2015
• Keyshia Blige, 33, Aurora, Illinois, 7 March 2015
• Mercedes Williamson, 17, Rock Creek, Alabama, 30 May 2015
• London Chanel, 21, North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 18 May 2015
• Kristina Gomez Reinwald, 46, Miami, Florida, 16 February 2015
• Bri Golec, 22, Akron, Ohio, 13 February 2015
• Penny Proud, 21, New Orleans, Louisiana, 10 February 2015
• Taja Gabrielle DeJesus, 36, San Francisco, California, 1 February 2015
• Yasmin Vash Payne, 33, Los Angeles, California, 31 January 2015
• Ty Underwood, 24, Tyler, Texas, 26 January 2015
• Lamia Beard, 30, Norfolk, Virginia, 17 January 2015
• Papi Edwards, 20, Louisville, Kentucky, 9 January 2015
These are the murders. We’re still counting the suicides.
Please say their names, every one of them.
And Heaven help us, let it stop here and now.
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Our thanks to Mitch Kellaway and Sunnivie Brydum at The Advocate; this is a harrowing list compiled from grim duty, and we really should be keeping our own tally. Meanwhile, at least someone has. Please … #SayHerName.
Kellaway, Mitch and Sunnivie Brydum. “These Are the U.S. Trans Women Killed in 2015”. The Advocate. 27 July 2015.
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