I’ve been mentally putting together a post about a host of things - ‘trans panic’ defences, ‘deception’, victim blaming, and all the issues that’ve been swirling around my head in the wake of the Angie Zapata murder.
I’m not quite there yet, but there’s been a few excellent things written over the last couple of days, however, making some really excellent, and sometimes overlooked points when we’re talking about transphobic hate crimes. I put them here so I won’t forget as much as anything else, but they’re posts that really need to be read.
Brownfemipower:
So why is it just a given that “it”-that the dehumanization of Zapata-is not necessarily intertwined with and dependent upon her identity as a Latina? That is, would the panic defense be so easy to get away with if Angie wasn’t Latina? Would she be so easy to turn into “it” if we U.S. citizens weren’t already perfectly aw...
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Oh, for fucks sakeFrom: burningwords.net
Post Date: 2008-08-01 23:00:23
The aftermath of the London Pride fiasco keeps going on, it seems, and it isn’t getting any better.
Sarah’s description of a meeting with the Metropolitan Police over the issue is, um, wow. I especially like the bit where the Pride London representative stated that the ban on trans women using the proper bathrooms was instigated by Pride London , had been done for “health and safety reasons”, and that they wouldn’t have done it if they’d known it was ill...
more Read ‘emFrom: burningwords.net
Post Date: 2008-08-01 15:17:31
Lisa Harney and Queen Emily put up two of the best posts I’ve read in a long time last night last night. I don’t have anything to add, but I strongly recommend that people read them.
* Queen Emily: An open letter to cis feminists
* Lisa Harney: Cis Feminists: Trans Issues Are Important
It’s an important reminder, and a good question about the priorities of the blogosphere sometimes. ...
more Angie Zapata’s killer arrestedFrom: burningwords.net
Post Date: 2008-08-01 05:44:48
Two weeks ago, Angie Zapata, a 20-year old trans woman from Colorado, was brutally murdered, murdered for merely existing. It’s a story we’ve heard all too many times in this community: a young life snuffed out because some utter scumbag freaked out and decided that she deserved to die for his insecurities.
Her killer, Allen Ray Andrade, was arrested by Weld County police on Tuesday. It’s chilling how low the bar is when trans women are murdered - that I’m actually sur...
more So close, but yet so farFrom: burningwords.net
Post Date: 2008-07-29 23:01:10
I was celebrating the news earlier this week that the Rudd government had decided to end the racist policy of mandatorily detaining asylum seekers, often for years on end and without proper access to legal representation. In one fell swoop, Rudd quietly signaled an end to one of the worst eras in our recent history, and fifteen years of government-sanctioned harassment-cum-torture of refugees.
Less than 48 hours later, he went out and appointed Justice Robert French of the Federal Court, ...
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