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Transgender Day of Remembrance.

I am a woman, a wife, a transsexual, a geek, a lover, a fighter, a passionate person prone to flashes of anger and bouts of silliness. I love photography, drawing, reading, learning, and above all I love making peoples lives better, even if it's just a smile from a random stranger walking down the street with a camera in her hand. I am human. I am no threat to you, to your children, or to your world. I don't ask for the conflict that my very existance sparks with our culture... I've more than enough to handle without that. All I ask is to be given the basic respect that any human deserves.

Unfortunately we don't live in a world that regularly recognizes our right to a decent life. To many times people don't even recognize our right to live.

Today we remember our murdered sisters and brothers. If there is a DoR gathering near you, please, go. Regardless of if you are Trans* or Cis*, Gay, straight, bi, or none of the above, we need your help, and they deserve your remembrance.

DoR links:
Dolari.net - Transgender Day of Remembrance Webcomics Project
Taking up Too Much Space - How does racism affect transwomen, and why are so many WoC murdered?
Questioning Transphobia - Why the DoR
Transgriot - 412 names in 10 years
Little Light - The quick and the dead Little light on HRC and Remembrance.


And even if you don't visit any any of those things, please, there is something you must understand.