The Trans Women's Anti-Violence Project
**CONTENT WARNING**
As the title suggests, everything on this blog concerns violence against trans women.
The Trans Women's Anti-Violence Project is a trans feminist project addressing issues of systematic, institutional and interpersonal violence and oppression experienced by trans women (those who were coercively assigned male at birth and identify or are identified as women/female) across multiple identities (e.g., race, class, dis/ability, citizen-status, nationality, sexuality, age, HIV status, and form, status, or age of transition, etc.)
Ida Hammer is a writer and social justice communicator. She organizes the Trans Women's Anti-Violence Project. She presents workshops and trainings on cis privilege and being a trans ally. She's also involved in organizing against sexualized violence. She's a proud dyke-identified trans woman and an organizer of the New York City Dyke March.
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Post reblogged from When Cylons Dream
[News reports on the murders of trans women are transmisogynist as they are rife with misgendering, using the wrong name, and stating the killers’ claims of what happened as if they were fact. I have rewritten the news report of the Christmas Eve death of a Kansas City trans woman, found here, to correct these biases.]
Late on Christmas Eve night, the body of Dee Dee Pearson, 31, was found fatally shot inside an apartment in the 1000 block of East 43rd Street of Kansas City, Missouri. Sergeant Stacey Graves of the Kansas City Police said police were dispatched shortly before 11:30pm on report of a shooting.
Kenyan E Jones, 26, also of Kansas City has been charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action by the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office. Prosecutors are seeking a $250,000 cash only bond.
According to court documents, Jones told police he paid to have sexual relations with Ms Pearson, believing her to be a cis woman, but hours after having sex with her, discovered she was not. Angry by what he considered to be a deception, he got a 9mm-caliber handgun, found Ms Pearson, chased her three blocks to her front door, and killed her there. There has been no independent verification that Ms Pearson was a sex worker or that Jones’ story is otherwise true.
Catherine Tronnes, a neighbour reported hearing a single gunshot, a pause, and then five or six more gunshots in an interview with a local television station.
Court documents further indicate that witnesses identified Jones as a man who was seen in the area.
Investigators recovered Jones’ cell phone on which he had recorded some of his encounter with the victim, according to court reports.
Court reports also indicated that Jones has a history of drug-related offences.
At the doorway to Dee Dee Pearson’s apartment, where police believe the shooting took place, a memorial has sprung up. Included among the flowers and messages is a card that reads, “Dee Dee, You will always be alive to me as long as I breathe”.
There was no information on when or where a memorial service or funeral for Ms Pearson will be taking place.
Ugh the original article…
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Thank goodness this rewrite exists. Midwest news reporters at their finest…
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Why does this happen in my hometown? Why does this happen at ALL?! Fuck.
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To add commentary to my news rewriting: I’m no lawyer but I’m pretty sure that when you take a loaded gun and go hunting...
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Ugh the original article…
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