PinnedTDoR 2021: Say their names. Read their stories. Remember themIt has been 20 months since the pandemic started, and unlike this time last year, 2021 has seen the start of some sort of return to “normality” (whatever that means) — at least in privileged parts of the world where the majority of the population has now been vaccinated. But…Transgender6 min readTransgender6 min read
PinnedTDoR 2020: Say their names. Read their stories. Remember themTransgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) feels different this year of necessity. After all, how could it not, when a pandemic is ravaging the globe and so many — including all of us here in the UK- will be locked down on 20th November? So this year there are no outdoor…Transgender7 min readTransgender7 min read
Feb 18Violence is never far away from any of usAt the end of January 2023, I flew out to Barcelona for a work trip. During our stay, my colleagues and I were based in a hotel not far from the famous Gaudi-designed Sagrada Familia cathedral in central Barcelona. I mostly work from our spare room at home…Transgender4 min readTransgender4 min read
Nov 20, 2019TDoR 2019: Say their names. Read their stories. Remember themThe Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) is here again, and with it, a whole collection of names and faces who have been lost to us in the past year. The grief is never-ending; and with it the tears, resolve and anger not only about what happened to them, but about…Transgender5 min readTransgender5 min read
Dec 24, 2018TDoR 2018: Say their names. Read their stories. Remember themAt the end of October 2017 a group of us started preparing for the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) 2017 vigil in my home town of Bournemouth, and I volunteered to collate data on those we had lost. Aside from the vigil itself, the end results were two blog posts…Transgender9 min readTransgender9 min read
Nov 30, 2018A short speech from a Transgender Day of Remembrance vigilThis is a short speech I gave at the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) vigil held in Bournemouth, UK on Tuesday 20th November 2018. I thought I would reproduce here in case anyone else finds it useful in future. This is a traumatic time of year for trans people, so…Transgender3 min readTransgender3 min read
Oct 11, 2018Remembering Our Dead: September 2018Every year on or around 20th November people worldwide gather for the Transgender day of Remembrance to to remember the trans people we have lost to murder and violence in the past year, as reported by the Trans Murder Monitoring Project and published by Transgender Europe (TGEU). The following are…Transgender14 min readTransgender14 min read
Sep 7, 2018TDoR: Learning more about those we have lostIntroducing tdor.translivesmatter.info — a new website to provide supporting information and resources for TDoR events. — [TRIGGER WARNING: transphobia, violence, suicide and murder] In October 2017 three LGBT+ groups on Bournemouth got together to plan the local Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil the following month. As most of us will know, a TDoR vigil is usually a simple event where we read the names of our…Transgender10 min readTransgender10 min read
Sep 6, 2018Remembering Our Dead: August 2018Every year on or around 20th November people worldwide gather for the Transgender day of Remembrance to to remember the trans people we have lost to murder and violence in the past year, as reported by the Trans Murder Monitoring Project and published by Transgender Europe (TGEU). The following are…Transgender21 min readTransgender21 min read
Aug 10, 2018Remembering Our Dead: July 2018Every year on or around 20th November people worldwide gather for the Transgender day of Remembrance to to remember the trans people we have lost to murder and violence in the past year, as reported by the Trans Murder Monitoring Project and published by Transgender Europe (TGEU). The following are…Transgender14 min readTransgender14 min read