[Wamvan] Facing and Fighting Transphobic Violence

[Tami Starlight]

Great posting Meenakshi - difficult for sure.

Joanna,
There really is none.
There is some groups in the southern Ontario region, and perhaps 1 in the
Montreal area.
Nothing really that specifically focused in the coast region.
Some may claim, but ya........not.

The Van trans day of remembrance has potential to address this, but,
difficult to get some critical mass to organize it.

Basking in the semi dry warmth in Lytton, BC.
(+21 ....ahhh......)

Miigwetch/Thank you/Merci
*Tami M. Starlight*
Unceded & occupied Coast Salish Territory
Vancouver, Canada
tamistarlight at gmail.com

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Joanna Chiu <chiu.joanna5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for sharing, Meenakshi. Are there Canadian orgs doing actions
> around transphobic violence? And are there any groups based in Vancouver?
>
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> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Meenakshi Mannoe <
> meenakshi.mannoe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Facing and Fighting Transphobic Violence for Both the Living and the
>> Dead: CeCe McDonald and Brandy Martell
>>
>> *by Ianna Hawkins Owen*
>>
>> *Cross-posted from Tikkun Daily<http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2012/05/02/facing-and-fighting-transphobic-violence-for-both-the-living-and-the-dead-cece-mcdonald-and-brandy-martell/>
>> .*
>>  <http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/wp-content/uploads/memorial2.jpg>
>>
>> The corner of 13th and Franklin in Oakland, California, has become a
>> makeshift memorial site for Brandy Martell. Credit: Photo by A.M. (
>> http://transfeminism.tumblr.com).
>>
>> It is not easy to mourn the dead, it’s an assignment without hope of
>> closure. Nor is it easy to defend the living, but for other reasons. The
>> living pose questions that we hesitate to answer: Whose bodies are
>> grievable? Are our responses sustainable? How much do we have to give, for
>> whom, and for how long? We do not sign up for shifts of pain, they spirit
>> us away. But we do we have a choice to show up – in myriad ways, to make
>> eye contact, to pack the court, to pick up the phone. We must not remember
>> the dead at the expense of the living but instead balance our dedication to
>> freedom.
>>
>> Just three nights ago here in downtown Oakland Brandy Martell<http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/05/brandy-martell-killed-in-oakland.html>,
>> a trans woman of color, was murdered. There were a lot of people gathered
>> at an emergency vigil on Sunday night at the site of her passing on 13th
>> and Franklin. Friends, community members, and family spoke and witnessed,
>> shouted and cried. An Occupy Oakland street medic, who happened to be out
>> late that night responding to another shooting (despite a curfew order),
>> described trying to save Brandy’s life with CPR and pressure applied to her
>> bullet wounds while the police came late and stood idly by as she died.
>>
>> Not having known Brandy or her friends, I showed up because, among other
>> reasons, this happened in my neighborhood. The next day when I woke up, I
>> read that CeCe McDonald <https://supportcece.wordpress.com/>’s trial was
>> just beginning. Having survived a racist and transphobic attack, she is
>> facing not justice but two counts of “second degree murder” for defending
>> herself. Today she has taken a plea and as her supporters there are things
>> that we must do and things we mustn’t do. We must respect her decision.
>> Yet, we must not allow the state to gaslight her determination to live.
>> CeCe still needs our support. She needs our energy and efforts not only as
>> she awaits sentencing, not only if/as she moves through the system, not
>> only in the days when she is free again. As the old saying goes, “the heart
>> is a muscle the size of your fist”; so long as it flexes within you, pray
>> with it for Brandy, fight with it for CeCe, and speak from it with one
>> another.
>>
>> Are you hurting? We shall be free.
>>
>> Visit ColorLines<http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/05/report_cece_mcdonald_takes_plea_deal_in_minneapolis_murder_case.html> for
>> an update on CeCe’s plea.
>>
>> Here’s what out-of-towners can do<http://freececemcdonald.tumblr.com/post/22012029427/out-of-towners-we-need-yr-help-supporting-cece?og=1> to
>> support CeCe (still relevant).
>>
>> *Ianna Hawkins Owen **is a graduate student in African Diaspora Studies
>> at UC Berkeley. **In New York she organized with All City and the Audre
>> Lorde Project. Her research interests include failure, desire, and
>> abolition.*
>>
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