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Thorny Poetry - 45. I Remember You
Content warning: Murder
i remember you
Rita Hester
Allston, 1998
you never turned thirty-five
i remember you
Gwen Araujo
California, 2002
your assailants used a ‘trans panic defense’
they got off with second degree murder and manslaughter
i remember you
Gisberta Salce Júnior
Portugal, 2006
how could children do something so awful?
i remember you
Dwayne Jones
Jamaica, 2013
it was the first time you went out as yourself
you were sixteen
i remember you
Yoshi Tsuchida
Tokyo, 2015
your adopted daughter found you
i remember you
Muhlaysia Booker and
Chynal Lindsey
Dallas, 2019
murdered two weeks and a single mile apart
i remember you
transgender sex workers in
Mexico, 2019
some of you are named, many unknown
i remember you
one hundred and thirty trans siblings in
Brazil, 2019
i couldn’t find your names
and your murders were all but condoned by your government
i remember you
three thousand three hundred and seventeen known humans
killed worldwide in the past eleven years
for the crime of being trans
and i remember you too
nameless brother-sister
fellow human being
you who didn’t make it onto the statistics
because your family were ashamed or
the police misgendered you or
you were still in the closet
i remember you all
and i will not forget.
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