prince-jordana:

Her name was Leelah. She was a daughter, a friend, a sister.

Her name was Leelah. She was buried in a suit.
Her name was Leelah. She was misgendered.
Her name was Leelah.

humanpraxis:

Leelah Alcorn committed suicide and today I read that a black trans woman has gone missing. Her car was found charred to a crisp [X]. Note: the site is down at the time of posting this (12/30, 1pm Central) probably due to high traffic right now.

So it’s business as usual, the only way society is going to pay attention to us is if we’re dead and that’s only if we’re white. Trans women of color are being ignored yet again. Like yeah, there was the murder of Jennifer Laude and that gain some mainstream notoriety, but notice that when a black trans woman is murdered it is never going to hit the national news circuit.

8aozi:

trans kids are still so unsafe. black people still haven’t gotten justice. mexico’s children are still missing. hong kong is still protesting. the taliban are still at large. there are countless injustices happening all over the world right at this minute. 2015, please don’t let us down.

To the Alcorn Parents,

If you dare engrave Joshua
on her tombstone
we will come to cemetery
in masses.
We will be
dancing,
singing,
chanting:
Martyr. Martyr. Martyr.
Daughter. Daughter. Daughter.
Leelah.
Leelah.
Leelah.
Your blessed baby girl.

b.e.fitzgerald (make them say her name)

What about the email address to contact Leelah’s school? I’d like to email them about their memorial page misgendering her.

iantolives:

mimicryisnotmastery:

transcommunist-deactivated20150:

this is the info i could find! 

Kings High School
5500 Columbia Road
Kings Mills, Ohio 45034
513.398.8050 ext. 2
Fax: 513.459.2938

KHS Principal
Doug Leist

513.398.8050 ext. 11001
dleist@kingslocal.net

KHS Assistant Principal
Rob Burnside

513.398.8050 ext. 11002
rburnside@kingslocal.net

KHS Assistant Principal
Ron Corradini

513.398.8050 ext. 11027
rcorradini@kingslocal.net

KHS Attendance Line
513.398.8050 ext. 23

Actually please do this, because it’s important people know it’s not okay to misgender someone just because they’re knowledge and awareness is limited.

I just checked the school website and they’ve taken down the memorial, hopefully this means they’re going to replace it with a better one but we’ll have to wait and see 😐

fegeleh:

cultofeve:

Number of articles in a google news search for Leelah Alcorn: 392

Number of articles in a google news search for Joshua Alcorn: 5950

If that’s not erasure, I don’t know what is.

this is an act of further violence against a baby girl who already took her own life bc of the violence she has faced and its fucking disgusting