This coming Thursday is Trans Day of Remembrance, with events and vigils in each city. Here are some of the Toronto events happening this month. (more…)
Toronto: Two job postings @ U of T’s Centre for Women & Trans People November 14, 2008
Note: these positions have been filled.
*** Please forward & post widely. Thank you! ***
Job Postings at The Centre for Women & Trans People at U of T
We are currently hiring for 2 Full-Time Coordinator positions:
1. Coordinator, Volunteers and Communications (Permanent)
2. Coordinator, Administration and Peer Support (1-Year Contract)Please specify which Coordinator position you are applying for in your
cover letter. (more…)
Urgent: donations needed for Duanna Johnson’s funeral November 13, 2008
From sin_nombre on LJ, via Questioning Transphobia:
Duanna Johnson’s Funeral–DONATIONS NEEDED
Apologies for the caps, but this is urgent.
The balance for Duanna Johnson’s funeral is $1195 and the funeral home is requiring Mrs. Skinner (Duanna’s mother) to pay it by tomorrow (11/14). The cost is a hardship, so we are asking anyone who can to donate. Please send any donations to:
N.J. Ford and Sons Funeral Home
12 S Parkway W
Memphis, TN 38109If you want any clarification from NJ Ford, here is their contact number: (901) 948-7755.
Please forward this to as many people as you can!! Thanks!
ETA: Check Casey’s comment in this post for an update on how to donate.
ETA2: Donations are no longer needed! All extra donations will go to Duanna’s mother to cover other funeral expenses.
I’m angry. November 12, 2008
I feel like I’m in between living on Earth and living on another planet, kind of like how someone feels at their last week of work. All I feel is disappointment and festering anger, and I just want to pack my shit up and move to Europa. (The links in this post probably contain triggers for violence.) This could have been a Friday Night Rage, which I haven’t done in a long time, but I don’t think I could wait for Friday.
I’m angry that Duanna Johnson was murdered. I’m angry that the police who brutalized and beat her earlier in the year may never face charges. I’m angry that the person(s) who murdered her may never be brought to justice because if the police beat her, what do they care about her murder? I’m angry that there is a possibility they just finished the job they started in the summer. I’m angry that I think that, that I’m so jaded, when there is so much to keep fighting for.
I’m angry that Aqsa Parvez was murdered in a situation that was clearly one of domestic violence. I’m angry at her killers. I’m angry that violence against women isn’t taken seriously. I’m angry that it was dredged up a year later by Toronto Life, for sensationalism, only to call it an honour killing. I’m angry they airbrushed her personal photo for the cover of their affluential magazine. I’m angry that they blame it on a culture clash, Islam, call it “Toronto’s first honour killing”, and ask ridiculous questions about whether or not immigrants are integrating into mainstream Canadian culture or if this is the “price of multiculturalism.” I’m angry at the editor for being complacent about the criticisms.
I’m angry that Jane Currie and Anji Dimitriou couldn’t pick up their children at school without being beaten because they are lesbians. I’m angry that they have to push and lobby for the attack to be considered a hate crime. I’m angry that people think this had nothing to do with sexuality and heternormativity. I’m angry that people think homophobia doesn’t exist. I’m angry that people think this isn’t a hate crime, and that they’re looking for ’separate crimes.’
I’m angry.
Link: bullshit around Prop 8 November 9, 2008
Because a man of colour has been voted president, the voting habits of demographics of colour is suddenly up for critique by white (and/or) queer liberals. As though homophobia didn’t exist in black and hispanic communities before, as though they are no queer black or hispanic people. As though black and hispanic people made up a significant portion of the vote. I don’t have many words, and I don’t know how to articulate myself. All I feel is anger and disappointment to see this rhetoric from people who supposedly think their racism is excused because those blacks voted against us. It burns me even here in Canada, because who is to say that this sentiment is contained to California?
Lorelei summed up what I’ve felt, very appropriately:
and you can lay the blame RIGHT ON YOUR DAMN SELVES because had you not been sitting on your asses going ‘WAH WAH WAH BLACK PEOPLE PASSED PROP 8′ and spreading these LIES and MISINFORMATION, THIS RACIST FUCKING BULLSHIT WOULD NOT BE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
I AM NOT NAMING NAMES, DAN SAVAGE AND HALF THE FEMINIST BLOGOSPHERE. BUT I HAVE SEEN MORE THAN ENOUGH POSTS, ESPECIALLY FROM YOU GODDAMN PUMAS, BITCHING AND WHINING ABOUT HOW THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE JUST KEEPING YOU DOWN.
SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP ALREADY.
You can read the rest of “YES I WILL SPEAK TO YOU LIKE I AM YOUR FUCKING MOTHER” here!
