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2022.11.12 TOKYO TRANS MARCH @ Shinjuku,TOKYO / #TransDayOfRemembrance / Part1
#transgender#transrightarehumanrights#trans pride#trans day of remembrance#trans rights#trans positivity#transisbeautiful#queer photography#queer pride#queer love#queer#lgbt#lgbtphotographer#lgbtq positivity#lgbtq community#lgbtqplus#pride 2022#lgbtqia#tdor#tdor2022#documentary photography#documentary#japanese photography#japanese street photography#japan street#japan photos#tokyo photography#transgender day of remembrance#TransDayOfRemembrance
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include trans men and mascs in your posts about and events on trans day of remembrance. that’s it that’s the post.
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Today is Trans Day of Remembrance and we honor the lives of trans, Two-Spirit, non-binary and gender diverse people who have lost their lives due to transphobic violence. The world is not getting safer with anti-trans legislation and violence on the rise.
A few things you can do:
- center and uplift the voices of trans, Two-Spirit, non-binary and gender diverse folks— especially those at the intersections of oppression (such as BIPOC, trans femme folks, sex workers and folks with disabilities)
- donate to organizations who provide support (such as financial, community, healthcare, legal and legislative advocacy) to trans folks
- stay informed on trans issues globally and nationally— but also locally. At lot of really actionable change begins close to home.
Names stories and memorializations of those we lost and were senselessly taken from us this year:
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To this day, the 1998 stabbing of Rita Hester — whose murder sparked the “Remembering Our Dead” web project that became the catalyst for the annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20 — remains a cold case.
Rita’s death occurred in an era when the “trans panic” defense — a defendant melodramatically pleads temporary insanity for a killing — was a legal strategy.
On November 28, 1998, Rita was found in her first-floor Boston apartment with 20 stab wounds to her chest, just two days before her 35th birthday.
Her murder occurred six weeks after Matthew Shepard’s in Laramie, Wyo., which became an internationally known homophobic hate crime. In 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
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the first victim of the colorado springs club q shooting has been identified as trans man daniel davis aston, formerly of tulsa. he had moved to colorado springs and began bartending at club q, where he found community and seemed to be thriving.
that any of my community was murdered on the eve of tdor is awful enough. that a trans sibling was among them is just utterly gutting.
i'm sorry, daniel. i'm sorry we failed you. you deserved to be safe.
as randy says in his tweets, daniel will be remembered as he lived: vibrant and fearless, exquisite and kind.
#cw homophobia#cw transphobia#cw violence#colorado#colorado springs#colorado springs shooting#club q#transphobia#homophobia#violence#daniel davis aston#trans day of remembrance#tdor#tdor2022
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Today is Trans Day of Remembrance
Today, I ask that if trans ppl are usually not at the forefront of your mind, give some thought to how you can show up for us with more than platitudes.
I recommend:
🏳⚧Looking up antitrans legislation in your community and contacting your rep about it. (US site: http://bit.ly/3UQDz0A)
🏳⚧Donating to the Transgender Law Center @ https://transgenderlawcenter.org/donate (or a trans charity in your country)
🏳⚧Telling your transphobic uncle that he's an asshole
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Today marks Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR). On this day it is customary for trans people like myself to gather and remember the trans lives lost to anti-transgender violence in the past year. Trans in Welsh is Trawsryweddol (archaically, Trawsrywiol)
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We miss you, Kitty.
We miss you, Wren.
Every day is TDOR.
Remember the dead. Fight for the living.
Trans rights are human rights. Trans lives are human lives.
💙💗🤍💗💙
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Today is Trans Day of Remembrance (November 20th, 2022) 🏳️⚧️
The Trans Murder Monitoring Project’s 2022 update published by TGEU has 327 reports.
Here’s a list of 390 reports.
[Image Descripton: A graphic from the Transgender Law Center with the title “Trans Day of Remembrance 2022.” Below it are the names of those we’ve lost this year: “Amariey Lei. Duval Princess. Naomie Skinner. Cypress Ramos. Paloma Vasquez. Matthew Angelo Spampinato. Elise Malary. Tatiana Labelle. Kathryn Newhouse. Kesha Webster. Miia Love Parker. Ariyanna Mitchell. Fern Feather. Ray Muscat. Nedra Sequence Morris. Chanelika Y’ella Dior Hemingway. Sasha Mason. Paris Rich. Deedee Hall. Brazil Johnson. Shawmayne Giselle Marie McClam. Kitty Monroe. Martasia Richmon. Toi Davis. Keshia Chanel Geter. Cherry Bush. Marisela Castro. Hayden Nevah Davis. Dee Dee Kandii Redd. Jasper Aaron Lynch. Maddie Hofmann. Dede Ricks. Regina “Mya” Allen. Acey D. Morrison. Semaj Billingslea. Tiffany Banks. And those we have yet to learn and love. We cherish. We rememeber. We will rise.” The trans flag colors are to the left.]
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2022.11.12 TOKYO TRANS MARCH @ Shinjuku, TOKYO / #TransDayOfRemembrance / Part2
#transgender#transrightarehumanrights#trans pride#trans day of remembrance#trans rights#trans positivity#transisbeautiful#queer photography#queer pride#queer love#queer#lgbt#lgbtphotographer#lgbtq positivity#lgbtq community#lgbtqplus#pride 2022#lgbtqia#tdor#tdor2022#documentary photography#documentary#japanese photography#japanese street photography#japan street#japan photos#tokyo photography#tokyo street photography#photojournalism#TransgenderDayOfRemembrance
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Today, on this Transgender Day of Remembrance, I remember and honor the trans people who have passed on, while sending love, compassion, strength, and bravery to my trans siblings here on Earth.
May every single trans person live with authenticity, and know that the universe is complete because of them. May every single trans person feel loved, today and every day.
My altar set up for Trans Day of Remembrance.
The iPad is acting as a digital photo frame, playing a slideshow of trans people (some I knew personally, some I did not) who have passed on. Pictured is Venus Xtravaganza. Also included on the slideshow are Leelah Alcorn, Blake Brockington, and Brandon Teena, among two people whom I am blessed to have known: Theo and Felix.
#christian witch#witchcraft#witch#witchblr#my altar#trans spirituality#queer spirituality#trans day of remembrance#tdor2022#trans christian#transgender#trans is holy#prayer#manifestation#lovingkindness#meditation
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Trans Ancestor Rite 2022
This year’s Ancestor Rite is coming up quick and we’ve finally gotten some solid information about what needs to change this year.
After seven years of conducting the Rite in its current form, this year’s divination with the relevant helping spirits has provided us with some new guidelines around ritual format that we have been hoping for for some time. Here’s how we’re thinking about it:
Assuming our past years’ work has been effective, there are now a good deal of trans ancestors, people who were alive both recently and longer ago, who feel themselves in connection with us, who have received the care and honor we offered through previous years’ elevations, who are bright and well and who can tend the line from the other side.
Most ancestral practices discourage interfacing directly with the troubled dead; instead, the ongoing practice of the living is to honor and connect with our bright and well ancestors. Practitioners then ask these bright ancestors to care for the troubled dead, to bring them into healing, and to place blessings around the familial line. So this year we are shifting to that model instead of trying, as living practitioners, to offer peace that we do not ourselves know to the recently passed. Therefore, here are some new ritual guidelines to try.
1. We’re still preparing an altar and spending the nine nights leading up to the Trans Day of Remembrance with it. The altar should now celebrate and honor the bright and well trans ancestors and helping spirits that you honor in your work year round or that you wish to invite into your practice.
2. Instead of placing the altar on the ground, you should now put this altar in a place that you can sit with it every night. We won’t be physically elevating the altars this year. It can be a part of your existing altar setup if you have one, or it can be on a dresser, table, shelf, or wherever works for you.
3. Work the altar every night for nine nights, beginning on November 12th and ending on November 20th. We have some ideas for what working the altar will mean for us, but your ideas are also welcome and encouraged! We recommend that you still light a dedicated candle and offer a fresh glass of water. You can also offer them incense or other smoke, cut flowers, a drink or a meal, prayers, poems, music, dancing, whatever you feel called to offer. These offerings should be directed towards the bright and well trans ancestors that we have been working with for the last seven years, and any others that you are connected to – not to the recently passed.
4. We have a new base prayer that you can build around, with which we’ll be asking those bright and well ancestors to care for our troubled dead and to lay a blessing around the line, and we’ll be honoring and celebrating them for stepping up to do that work with us.
5. It’s fine to still read the list of names if that’s part of your annual practice, but instead of speaking directly to those family members who have passed in the last year, we are now identifying them by name to the bright and well ancestors and helping spirits and asking them to look after them.
6. Note: It’s still important not to put any images of living people on your ancestor altar!
We’re glad to be stepping into this new phase of the Trans Ancestor Rite for a couple of reasons. We hope that this format will be less grueling on practitioners – we’ve definitely felt the weight of trying to allow the trauma of hundreds of troubled dead to process through our living bodies for nine days in a row, and we don’t want to be guiding our community through ritual practices that feel like torture! We’ve also felt less than awesome about using the elevation format – it’s not from a closed practice, but we are using it out of context and that’s not a great way to operate. (Also the individual that we directly learned this from has gone vocally fascist over the last few years and we are glad to no longer feel like we have to be using her work!)
We welcome any questions or feedback! Have you been getting other information from your divination? Do you have practices that you have been finding effective for connecting with the bright and well trans ancestors? What are you thinking about for this year?
Let us know if you’re participating this year! Please share photos of your altars, or what offerings you’re making! If you tag posts #TROE2022, we’ll feature them on the blog!
In solidarity,
En la lucha,
Mir veln zey iberlebn,
Mod Rocket
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my body has been wracked with grief since the shooting at Club Q on Trans Day of Remembrance, exactly 42 years after the shooting in Greenwich at multiple gay bars. That it happened in the same week a gay bar in nyc has had a brick thrown through their window 3 times. for all the moments we don’t make the news for.
i don’t have anything transformative to say and i’m beyond empty. yet, i still find myself dreaming through death and massacre and criminalization,
of a world where we live long lives
of a world i get to meet you
of a world we kiss our lovers and friends not worrying it’ll be the last
of a world where you get home safe, a world where you got home safe.
i’m waiting for your “got home safe” text. i’m waiting to hear the door unlock and to know you survived.
i feel desperate to keep going, not out of spite but dedication. for every moment taken away from us i will carry you with me. and if an early grave comes for me we’ll still find a way forward.
it wasn’t your time and you’re still gone. rest in peace is a cheap salve but i hope you find it; rest and peace.
Daniel Davis Aston, Raymond Green, Kelly Loving, Ashley Paugh, Derrick Rump.
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Today is a heavy day for the queer community. You don’t have to carry it alone. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈❤️🩹
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