Persia’s mother called her “a light,” “a force,” and her beautiful transgender daughter. After her body was found near Brays Bayou, her family made sure the record carried her name.
RESTORE THE RECORD: STOP MEDIA ERASURE OF BLACK TRANS WOMEN AFTER DEATH
Persia Amarra Conway’s case shows why this work has to continue. Her family had to restore what the public record did not carry first: her name, her life, her gender, and her dignity.
Trans United is building a living record to find them, name them, and restore them to public memory.
Help fund the research, documentation, and memorial reporting needed to keep Black trans women from being disappeared by police language, media neglect, incomplete data, and public silence.
That’s a damn shame. Young beautiful woman brutally murdered. Enoughs Enoughs. I want her family to get justice. R.I.P. to her. Great piece glad you gave her this tribute.
Consider starting blog documenting these people. Blogspot is free and it has a comment section. You can turn of comments. It’s an easy platform to use.
We can’t rely on the government to be ethical or do the sane and moral thing. The type of people who come to power are very often unethical.
That’s exactly the direction — we need an independent living record because the official record keeps failing.
Government systems cannot be trusted to name people with dignity when those same systems are already erasing trans people from data, language, and public recognition.
The work has to live where community can document, verify, preserve, and keep the names from disappearing.
RESTORE THE RECORD: STOP MEDIA ERASURE OF BLACK TRANS WOMEN AFTER DEATH
Persia Amarra Conway’s case shows why this work has to continue. Her family had to restore what the public record did not carry first: her name, her life, her gender, and her dignity.
Trans United is building a living record to find them, name them, and restore them to public memory.
Help fund the research, documentation, and memorial reporting needed to keep Black trans women from being disappeared by police language, media neglect, incomplete data, and public silence.
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That’s a damn shame. Young beautiful woman brutally murdered. Enoughs Enoughs. I want her family to get justice. R.I.P. to her. Great piece glad you gave her this tribute.
That’s the truth of it. Persia deserved justice, dignity, and a life that was not cut short.
Her family should not have to fight for the record to carry her name correctly after losing her.
Consider starting blog documenting these people. Blogspot is free and it has a comment section. You can turn of comments. It’s an easy platform to use.
We can’t rely on the government to be ethical or do the sane and moral thing. The type of people who come to power are very often unethical.
That’s exactly the direction — we need an independent living record because the official record keeps failing.
Government systems cannot be trusted to name people with dignity when those same systems are already erasing trans people from data, language, and public recognition.
The work has to live where community can document, verify, preserve, and keep the names from disappearing.
😔💔😢RIP Sweet lovely Persia
🌺 Persia deserved to be remembered with tenderness and dignity.
May her name stay in the record and in the hearts of everyone holding her tonight.
RIP Persia, so sorry!
🫂 Thank you for holding Persia with care.
She deserved a full life, not a record her family had to repair after death.