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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Vigil Held For Transgender Woman, JaParker Jones, Fatally Stabbed at Bus Stop in Northeast DC
Dozens of people gathered at the scene of the crime to remember a 23-year-old transgender female stabbed to death last Thursday night.
She was waiting for a bus at a Northeast D.C. Metro stop on East Capitol Street at Sycamore Road.
The crowd, including her father and LGBT activists, are also encouraging anyone with information to come forward about the murder of JaParker Jones.
Law enforcement sources tell FOX 5 about six leads have been generated after detectives released surveillance video taken the night of the murder. It shows a man walking calmly across East Capitol Street away from the bus stop.
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