Chanelle, Monique, and Rita: The Start of TDOR

In the late 1990s, three Black transgender women in the Boston area were murdered and each case had a different outcome. After the third murder, an activist across the country in San Francisco became increasingly frustrated that the narrative about violence against transgender people was being controlled by the media outside the community. She started the Transgender Day of Remembrance, refusing to forget the stories of those we’ve lost. 

Resources mentioned:

Trans Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape http://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/faculty/161

Gender Inc http://genderinc.com/

Ayanna Pressley’s full speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlG4ayQ2kM4

National Center for Transgender Equality https://transequality.org/

Gender Spectrum https://genderspectrum.org/

Black Trans Advocacy Coalition https://blacktrans.org/

Human Rights Campaign https://hrc.org

The Trevor Project https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

Music by Scott Buckley

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