Add two to this year's list
Chyna Gibson, 31, who performed under the name Chyna Doll Dupree in the pageant and ballroom community, was shot to death outside of a shopping center in New Orleans East on Saturday evening.
Residents of the area said that they hear 8 to 10 shots. Chyna died at the scene. Her body was found between to cars parked in front of a clothing store.
A very loving person. She didn't do nothing to nobody.
--Chyna's aunt
Chyna was currently living in California but had traveled to Nola to celebrate Mardi Gras with friends and family.
Everyone loved her. This is unnecessary.--a friend
Chyna was the fifth transgender woman reportedly murdered in 2017 and the third in February.
Chyna Gibson had gone home to New Orleans to like thousands of other people, celebrate Mardi Gras and be with her family during that festive time. Instead, she was brutally murdered. Shot ten times and left to die in the parking lot of a New Orleans strip mall. BTWI would like to express our condolences to Chyna’s family, friends and all who loved her. She was well known in the pageant and ballroom community as Chyna Doll Dupree, and she will be missed.
--Black Trans Women, Inc
The senseless murder of our trans sisters and brothers is something we simply cannot continue to ignore! I offer my deepest condolences to her friends and family. We say your name #ChynaGibson. To my LGBT brothers and sisters as the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations – I will not stop fighting on your behalf. Your lives matter. #ChynaGibson.
--Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee (D-Houston)
Last Tuesday another trans woman of color, 24-year-old Keke Collier, was shot and killed in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.
According to LaSaia Wade, founder and director of trans justice organization TNTJ Project, Collier also went by the name Tiara Richmond.
According to witnesses Keke got into a car with a man who later shot her. She was found on the street and taken to Advocate Christ Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
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Horrifying. I'm so sorry.
Out of curiosity
Do you have any death statistics for trans people vs. the general population? An immediate thought I had was "*sigh* another two. But how does that really stack up?"
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
Oh no you just didn't.
Hopefully I misread. I'm supposed to be asleep after all.
You said this:
The way I've read that, more than once, made me throw up in my mouth a little bit. Please explain how my reaction was wrong.
My interpretation
I think what Snapple was saying here is in parts.
The "sigh, another two" isn't dismissal, but thinking more along like if someone said "oh another school shooting". To me it isn't dismissal, but more like a defeated soul kind of thing.
The second part "But how does that really stack up?" is something I'm curious about as well. Regarding the murder statistics of trans vs. general population. A way to think about it is are these trans people being murdered at the same rate of the general population or are they at a higher risk? Are they being murdered BECAUSE they are trans I guess is another way to look at the question.
Thank you, Strife Delivery n/t
Ambiguity Exacerbates Anxiety
has touched on something that has been bothering me for sometime, something I could not articulate because I could not put my finger on the source of the discomfort.
We live in a very different world today, and tomorrow it will even be more different. It is very easy to be (dare I say) too connected. Too "informed". Too "involved". None of these quite captures what I am trying to highlight. Let me try it this way: I avoid "social media" because it is way too easy to generate a "point" / "counter-point" explosion grounded in a misreported incident. For example, Twitter limits Tweet length to 140 characters as though it is even possible to sensibly communicate within those constraints.
I learned, at a very young age, to think critically about anything I was told or read. I was not instructed to do that, I learned by example, perhaps the best form of education. For me Robyn's reports are very distressing as well as heart breaking. These homicides represent the worst of what is wrong with our society, whether they be "random acts" or "deliberate attacks" is of little succor.
From a purely analytical perspective, more, not less, modern policing (for the lack of a more elegant term) is needed. We need more, not less, "government" in this country. The old saw "follow the money" highlights the source of our angst. Privatized (read corporate) "services" rather than public services are what is creating the "dog eat dog" sentiment in this country. So, what has this to do with the subject at hand?
These homicides are not only tragic, they occur in a fog of war. Who do you trust to "get to the bottom" of each case? Recent reported actions suggest we cannot trust the police or the courts. We all know politicians at all levels are corrupt to the core.
The only reason I harbor any hope at all is because I know good people in the system. Do they represent "too little, too late" · · · I don't know, I can't see the future, but I know them and their works and that sustains me.
I'm gathering you must've misread
Whatever is in your head isn't even remotely in mine. I was just trying to understand the comparative death tolls. It's a big country. A handful of murders is hard to put into any sort of context. In this case, I'm asking specifically because I strongly suspect that the per capita comparisons are awful... which would help Robyn making her case to others.
For me, the story would've been more informative had it read something like, "With yet another murder of a trans person, we're up to xxx this year which is xxx% of the per capita rate for the general population.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard