#today is trans rememberance day

[sailorsally]

Beautiful Short Loser

Ocean Vuong

Stand back, I’m a loser on a winning streak.

I got your wedding dress on backwards & playing air guitar on this dirt road.

I taste my mouth the most &, let me tell ya, what a blessing.

The most normal things about me are my shoulders. You’ve been warned.

Where I’m from it’s only midnight for a second

the trees look like grandfathers laughing in the rain.

For as long as I can remember I’ve had a preference for mediocre bodies,

including my own.

Tell me this, why is the past tense always longer?

Is the memory of a song the shadow of a sound or is that too much?

Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I imagine Van Gogh singing

Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” into his cut ear & feeling peace.

Green voices in the rain, green rain in the voices.

Oh no, the sadness is intensifying. How rude.

Hey, [knocks on skull], can you get me out of here?

That one time Jaxson passed out on his triple stack of jumbo pancakes

at Denny’s after top surgery.

I can’t believe I lost my boobs, he said a minute before, smiling through tears.

 The sadness in him ends in me tonight.

It ends tonight!, I shouted to the cop who pulled us over for dreaming.

I’m not drunk, officer, I just believe in miracles.

Tomorrow, partly cloudy with a chance.

I’m done talking, sir, I’m saying what I feel.

I’m on the cliff of myself & these aren’t wings, they’re futures.

For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare.

Now I’m a beautiful short loser dancing in the rain.

Inside my head the war is everywhere.

Do you think I’ll need a gun where we’re going?

Can you believe my uncle worked at the Colt factory for ten years

only to use a belt at the end?

Talk about discipline. Talk about good Lord.

Maybe he saw that a small thing moving through a large thing

is more like a bird in a cage than a word in the mouth.

It can’t be free without breaking open.

I’m not sad, he told me once, laughing, I’m just always here.

See officer? The world is a magic trick – everyone disappears.

Why aren’t you laughing?

No, not beauty – but you and I outliving it.

Somehow, I got me for days. Got this late light

in the yard leaving blood on the bone

-colored fence. This thrash of spring we drown in to stay awhile

& mean it. I mean it when I say I’m mostly

male. That I recall every follicle in the failure the way they’ll remember God

after religion: alone, impossible, & good.

I know. I know the room you’ve been crying in

is called America.

I’m sorry the door is not invented yet.

Wait awhile. Like death, we are most useful at the end.

Finally, after years of failure, I’m now a professional loser.

I’m unstoppable! I’m crushing it in losses! I’m mopping the floor

where Jaxson’s drain bags leaked on his way to bed.

I’m done talking, officer, I’m dancing

in the rain with a wedding dress & it makes sense.

Because my uncle decided to leave this world intact.

Because taking a piece of my friend away from him

made him more whole.

Because where I’m from the trees look like family

laughing in my head.

Because I am the last of my kind at the beginning of hope.

Because what I did with my one short beautiful life—was lose it

on a winning streak.

[slymewitch]

Today is the Transgender Day of Rememberance.

Lets all take a moment to remember the trans lives that have been lost due to hate crimes, or those who have taken their own lives due to the cruelty of how our current system treats those it sees as different. But lets also think about all the things we can do to help make these problems stop. What we can do to stop hate crimes, what we can do to be there for trans people struggling with thoughts of self harm or suicide, what we can do to help trans people get out of bad home situations, and what we can do as a whole to stop trans lives from being lost.

May their many brave souls rest in peace.

[oliverferrie]

It's Trans Day of Rememberance, time to support your local trans author while they are still alive

I originally put this thread up on blue birb hellsite, but I wanted to make a longer, more nuanced post for Tumblr. TDOR is a heavy day for me, and every time I see the list of names it makes me want to squirrel away and cry. So instead I want to spread around some books by trans authors, to uplift our voices. The books themselves are not necessarily about trans characters (mine is not) but my experience as a trans guy does inform the text, and when I read these other works, I feel a kinship to the author in that regard, however imagined that is.

I'll start, it's me, buy my horrific (seriously, read the content warning) fantasy book about young queers surviving atrocities: SUGAR PEOPLE

Next up: Δάιος, by Andromeda Ruins (@andromedaexists). A heavy anti-establishment retelling of the fall of Icarus that leans heavily into the reality of queer folk as outcast and put at risk by the powers that be. I have yet to finish it but the prose really slaps you with its urgency.

Next up: FEMININ GANGE (Feminine gait), by Molly Øxnevad, a contemporary novel about the trans healthcare system in Norway. It's written in Norwegian (bokmål) but I really hope to see it translated in English one day because it's such an important piece of literature on the state of our centralised transmedical health system here in norway.

Next up, MAO SIN RAUDE KJOLE (Mao's Red Dress), by Jan Elisabeth Lindvik, (also norwegian, nynorsk) a coming of age novel set in the backdrop of the sixties. It's only really available in Norway, and it's another one I hope to see translated someday, but it's worth knowing about, as it's a seminal novel by a trans activist with so many decades of lived experience, as the country slowly changed its views around trans folk.

Next, we have JACK OF THORNS, Book 1 of INHERITANCE by AK Faulkner, a dark urban fantasy featuring messy queers and LOTS of trauma. I had the pleasure of meeting Faulkner at a con earlier this year, and they have got an awesome thing going with the Inheritance universe. I've been enjoying Jack of Thorns a lot, it does not hold back.

Next, it's the astounding FRESHWATER by Akwaeke Emezi, a magical contemporary novel about dissociative experiences and trauma, and how they interplay with culture and growing up. A very intense and beautifully written book that isn't afraid to tackle dissociative identities AND gender identity (something those of us who have both often have to mask for fear of being denied treatment).

AND THEY LIVED... by Stephen Salvatore, a very contemporary YA romance that deals with societal issues around being gay and nonbinary. It's written from the POV of a cringey, hopeful teen, and dances between happily-ever-after romance and a pointed exhumation of incredibly dark things.

Finally, LARK & KASIM START A REVOLUTION by Kacen Callender, a contemporary YA written in a comfortably snappy rhythm, about love, friendship and a social media mishap that spirals out of control.

If you are an author listed here and you want off this list, just let me know! If you are an author and you want ON this list, feel free to reblog and add your stuff.

Otherwise, go forth and support a trans author today! Connect with our stories, real and imagined. Increase empathy and understanding around the world. Maybe TDOR will be a memorial of the past one day, instead of a memorial of the present day.

[blessingsofire]

it’s trans day of rememberance today, and it’s also a sunday. i’m going to be posting some prayers to remember and enshrine all the souls that we have lost to anti-trans violence, this year and in years past. it’s a heavy day for me as a trans person. i hope for a better future for us.

[nityarawal]

6/4/2024

Bleedin' Hearts

Morning Songs 

Celebratin' Mothers' Day

All Day Every Day

Someone Turned

Mothers Day

Into The Daily One

Bittersweet Rememberance

Whose Celebratin'

A Mamma Today

Pickin' Flowers

Makin' Her Coffee

Whose Celebratin'

Mothers' Today

Is It You

Or Is It 

Another Lady

Today

With You

Is It Mom

Or Is It A Robot

An Actress

A Clone

A Meme

Someone You Once

Knew

Elon Is Convinced

This Is Simulation

Heartbreakin'

Cloning In Real Time

What's His Team

Done

With Neuralink

Editing His Laughter

In And Out

Filtered Through Screens

And AI

But Do Our Bleeding

Hearts Bleed

For The Moms'

And The Children

Ladies First

Mothers' Honor

#4BillionMothersStrong 

Or Do Our Bleeding

Hearts

Get Raked Over

Once Again

Like Britney Not

Wantin' To See Sam

Suffer

She Almost Took Him

Back

7000 Secret Service

Men

Wish They Were Yogis

Will They Be Going

To Slaughter

With Their Master

#Trumpleberry

Boys' Sacrificed 

Military Lied

And You're 

Telling Me We're Stuck

With Trump Defense

And Bush For Life

'Cuz They Liked

Trans

And Mary Kay Letourneau

How Long Will We Be

Playthings

Of Jewish Men

John Schmitz

And His Legacy

Of Bush Republicans 

9/11 In House Terrorism 

A Good Samaritan

Saw The City

Stoke Their Own 

Fires

Trespassing On

Federal Lands

Do You Really Think

That's Mothering

Gay Herding

Gay Sodomising

Anti-Semetic Lies

For Gay Lawyering

At America First Legal

Mackey Mouse Courts

Air Force Twitter Purchase

At Hands Of

Alex Spiro

Ashby Sorrenson

And Grant Funk

Trustee Scammers

I'm Feeling Proud

Of The Moms'

That Keep Their Voice

Pressure From

Queen

Pressure From Ice

Vanilla Ice

Deja

Is His Need

More Important 

Than Mine

Heard A Graphic

Groupie Narritive

Serving Vain Rockstars

And I Thought

What's In It For

The Ladies

You Got To Be Pretty

For A Moment

Take A Picture

But Whose Got Your

Back

In The Long Run

I Want To

I Need To

I Don't Appreciate 

Way Boys' Stole

Our Homes

I Want To

I Need To

I Don't Appreciate

Way Boys' Stole

Our Kids

I Want To

I Need To

Sing And Write

You Shouldn't Have

Encouraged Me

If It Would Be

My Demise

If Love Is Love

Than Why Do You Kill

If Love Is Love

Why Are You Ashamed

Of Yourselves

If Love Is Love

Then What's There

To Hide

Let The Children

Sing Their Truth

With Every Alibi

If Love Is Love

Then What's There

To Hide

What's This Pride

You Talk Of

In Silencings

Killing Our People

Raping Kids

If Love Is Love

Than Why Oppress

The Little Birds

Want Mamma

Just Like Me

We Can Only Guess

Merci

Peace,

Nitya Nella Davigo Azam Moezzi Huntley Rawal 

[gremmything]

Just now realized trans day of rememberance is TODAY, and while I luckily don't have any direct stories of lost friends, I wanted to do SOMETHING so here's the most recent doodles I have in my new sketchbook :^ my intent with art is never really to go for good or bad, just to get an image down and decide if I like it later lol

[pixelleterror]

#clubq #restinpower #Tdor #transdayofrememberance #ClubqInOurHearts

My heart hurts for our lgbtq fam in Colorado Springs. I'm one state away! Feels way too close to home. No one should have to go through this. I don't have words to articulate. 😞

It's also Transgender Day of Rememberance, a day to remember trans lives lost to violence and suicide.

Some pfps I made for today. Free to use or share.

[paradisewithziam]

I hope all of my trans and NB peeps are doing okay today💜 pls do what makes you happy today and spoil yourself bbs, your mental health is important and rmr you deserve the world ❤️❤️

[blue-eli]

Trans Sonic!!! He says Trans rights!!

Also Sonic underground was my shit as a child, so I drew some redesigns for the siblings. Sonia’s design in the original was wack.

Still figuring out how to draw sonic characters, I think the style looks pretty good. If I remember correctly I used an old (like quite a bit old, probably years) tutorial on how to draw sonic characters from @jorrated (at least I think it was from them, all I remember is it being pretty far back in the persons art tag, and their art looks closest to what I remember).

[queer-as-frikc]

Its transgender day of rememberance today (20th)

I did not know that

PLEASE TAKE ONE MINUTE TO REMEMBER ALL THOSE AFFECTED BY ANTI TRANS VIOLENCE

[bbygirldahyun]

today is transgender day of rememberance. this is a day dedicated to remembering, mourning, and honoring trans people who have lost their lives due to transphobic violence.

this is the data for the past year showing the kind of violence trans people are still facing in 2021. more resources can be found here

please support trans people in whatever way you can today, even if it’s just to offer a safe space 🤍🏳️‍⚧️

[theeldestsun]

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mun: miles, cute af trans-boy

[snakeybones]

Today is Transgender Day of Rememberance. I have taken time today to reflect on the many lives lost to unspeakable violence against the transgender community. Most importantly, I focused on how I can be a more active participant in advocating for trans rights in my community. My heart is heavy as we currently live in a county where our BOCC refuses to acknowledge Brooksville's racist history, let alone LGBTQIA rights. We don't have too much right now, but I made sure to donate to the Human Rights Campaign to start. Check out GLAAD for more ways to get involved.

[that-kinda-emo-artist]

November 20, 2020.

Today is the Trans Day of Rememberance so I did a quick drawing. Stay safe today!

(click for better quality)

Reblogs apreciated

[hoplitis]

very sad that ive only seen one trans day of rememberance post today. i think we all owe it to the community especially trans women to take a moment and reflect

[totalconcentrationpenisbreathing]

Today is Trans day of Rememberance

I love you all that are still here, and I miss you those who aren’t with us anymore. If we keep trying we can make it through, I promise. Things might be tough but keep your head up, and be proud of who you are.

R.I.P Charlie A7

I miss you, I look forward to when we see each other again <3