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What is Transgender Remembrance Day?
Why…it is simply the day that the decimation of transgender people by violence, rape and murder is mourned, and the victims are remembered.
As a point of fact, know this: for the ratio of violence against trans women to the overall transwoman population to be equivocal for cis gender women, there would have to be over 2.2 million acts of rape, violence, and murder every year.
2.2 MILLION!
Imagine the outcry.
But a few transwomen who are brutally beaten, and then their memory fouled and polluted with painting them as deserving what happened…meh, who cares?
thus Trans remembrance day.
Find a place in your city where there is a memorial going on…attend it, and let the horror really get inside your heart.
Winter
From far out in the center
of the naked lake
A Lost Loon’s Loud Lament
Echoes the cry of someone.
My love, we did not arrive at this place
To remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves
Like trees.
Trees are broken in winter and start again
Drawing up from
The Great Root.
Like Trees
We live again.
Longing
I am longing,
as a sailboat
longs for water,
Longs for the
cool swell of the river.
I am longing
as a dark soft curl
of a woman’s hair
longs for a flower.
I am longing,
as the blueness of sky
longs for the rhythmic
fables of bells.
I am longing,
as an empty cradle
longs for someone’s
tremulous sleep.
I am longing,
as a mirror
longs for
Reflections.
Such a longing.
Such a long time,
such a long way,
Such a longing.
Charissa's Grace Notes 
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