perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 16th, 2008
And the bad news.
Kellie Telesford’s murderer has been acquitted, despite the most ludicrous transphobic defence I’ve ever heard - that, completely out of fucking left field, she had really died in some sort of kinky sex act. This was, of course, on the basis that trans people are weird and just dig that kind of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 5th, 2008
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, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 1st, 2008
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 26th, 2008
These are bad days.
Four trans and gender variant people - Sanesha Stewart, Lawrence King, Cameron McWilliams and Simmie Williams - are dead in less than fifteen days, two of them startlingly young. Four lives cut short so much before their time because they dared to exist. Four more names added to the already long rolls […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 13th, 2008
Sanesha Stewart, a 25-year old transwoman of colour from the Bronx, was murdered on Saturday. The story is one that we’ve heard so many fucking times before: man digs woman, man discovers woman has penis, man freaks out and kills woman.
Belledame puts it well:
Because there’s nothing worse than finding out you are sexually attracted to, […]