It’s Always Been Our Stories That Saved Us: An Introduction to Transgender Awareness Week by Emily Flummox

It’s Always Been Our Stories That Saved Us
An Introduction to Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance
by Emily Flummox
Twenty-four years later, we still do not know who it was who made Rita Hester an ancestor (other than the cops who took an hour to get her to the hospital, despite her back door being open) and thus made November a good month for trans horror. A small group of Rita’s friends organized a vigil to remember her, to yell her name and her pronouns loud enough that hopefully the name the news used to kill her …