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11-21-2017, 01:19 AM
Celebrate Transgender Day of Resilience with these stunning posters and poems
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Since 2015, a group of artists has marked the solemn day known as Transgender Day of Remembrance (https://www.glaad.org/tdor), on Nov. 20 (https://tdor.info/), with vivid art and poetry meant to celebrate the strength and determination of trans people.*
The separate project, known as Transgender Day of Resilience (https://www.tdor.co/), is a "reimagining" of how to honor both transgender people who died violently and transgender people who lead happy, fulfilling lives, despite the often terrifying odds stacked against them.*
SEE ALSO: 10 trans and gender-nonconforming youth activists of color changing the world (http://mashable.com/2017/06/30/lgbtq-trans-youth-activists-of-color/)
At least 25 transgender people, many of them people of color, have been killed (https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-transgender-community-in-2017) this year in cases that involved clear anti-trans bias or where their transgender status exposed them to increased risk, such as homelessness. At least 23 trans people died last year in similar circumstances, according (https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-transgender-community-in-2017) to the LGBTQ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/20/transgender-day-of-resilience-2017/)
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Since 2015, a group of artists has marked the solemn day known as Transgender Day of Remembrance (https://www.glaad.org/tdor), on Nov. 20 (https://tdor.info/), with vivid art and poetry meant to celebrate the strength and determination of trans people.*
The separate project, known as Transgender Day of Resilience (https://www.tdor.co/), is a "reimagining" of how to honor both transgender people who died violently and transgender people who lead happy, fulfilling lives, despite the often terrifying odds stacked against them.*
SEE ALSO: 10 trans and gender-nonconforming youth activists of color changing the world (http://mashable.com/2017/06/30/lgbtq-trans-youth-activists-of-color/)
At least 25 transgender people, many of them people of color, have been killed (https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-transgender-community-in-2017) this year in cases that involved clear anti-trans bias or where their transgender status exposed them to increased risk, such as homelessness. At least 23 trans people died last year in similar circumstances, according (https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-transgender-community-in-2017) to the LGBTQ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/20/transgender-day-of-resilience-2017/)
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