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One thing that always troubles me about #TDoR2020 
is how the focus on the individually-perpetrated acts of violence can obscure the systemically facilitated death of so many trans people each year.
is how the focus on the individually-perpetrated acts of violence can obscure the systemically facilitated death of so many trans people each year.
For example, though our beloved Lorena Borjas wasn't murdered by an individual, she was murdered by the state. She was killed by our collective neglect and failure to ensure that our community was supported as COVID ravaged neighborhoods in Queens.
It is through laws and policies that take away people's chances for survival that so many trans people die each year - most of them Black and Brown. There are things we can do beyond remembrance, beyond naming the dead - though this is important too.
Give money to support trans people get housing, food, health care, clothes, whatever they want! I will share some links today.
Follow the attacks on trans people in state legislatures and join the fight to stop these bills (see my pinned tweet) - more resources coming soon.
Stop reflexively defending notions of sex that rely on binary conceptions of the body. These feed into the rhetoric that trans people are fraudulent and others should be protected from us. We are perfect. And should be celebrated for who we are and how we evolve.
We cannot stop the murders of our trans siblings if we don't end the criminalization of sex work, poverty and drugs. We cannot stop the murders if we don't disrupt the cycles that leave so many precariously housed, fed, and cared for. As we remember, let us fight in rage & love.
