Web page honors slain trans warriors
By
Deirdre "Al Dente" Sinnott
The title of the web page is: Remembering Our Dead. About 88
names float over a dark background. As you move from name to
name, following the links to descriptions of their deaths, the
intensity of the violence is overwhelming.
This new web page on the Internet honors trans people who
have died from murder or other causes related to their
oppression.
The page was created for the group Gender Education and
Advocacy. It's at www. gender.org/remember.
Gwen Smith, a web designer who lives in San Francisco, was
inspired to make the page after the 1998 killing of Rita
Hester--a transwoman from Boston.
Smith said: "When you look at the names here, remember these
people. Cry for those who we have lost, and let your anger out
for a society that would allow them to die."
For each of the 88 names here there are thousands more trans
people who have died alone and unknown. These deaths came at
the hands of the police or a stranger or as a result of
inadequate medical care.
Some of the names on this web site are well known. In other
cases, only the cause of their death is recorded.
Violence and hate are not the only problem faced by the
trans community. Isolation, marginalization and alienation can
be intense.
Now, because of the Internet and the emergence of the trans
struggle for liberation, resources like this web site have been
created where the names, the lives and the deaths of trans
people can be recorded.
This web site is a place where anger and mourning can come
together and be forged into direct action.
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