Police found 35-year-old Marlow Trottie dead in Alexandria on June 8. Community reports identified her as a Black trans woman and at least the 15th trans person killed this year.
It hurts my heart so much that people who don't neatly fit into a particular box are often either ignored, overlooked, disrespected or become victims of violent crimes. It's dehumanizing. This regime has not only given bigots a voice, but has seemingly given them the right to hate for hate's sake.
It hurts my heart so much that people who don't neatly fit into a particular box are often either ignored, overlooked, disrespected or become victims of violent crimes. It's dehumanizing. This regime has not only given bigots a voice, but has seemingly given them the right to hate for hate's sake.
That is the cruelty of it: people are pushed outside the lines first, then punished for being vulnerable there.
Dehumanization makes violence feel permitted, and that is why naming Marlow’s life matters.
I like how you put that. Pushed outside of the lines...well done friend