Last month, Aleanna Royal Bechdel, a 31 year-old Black trans woman who was a DJ, promoter, and artist, was murdered in a housing complex in New York, and a 54-year old man was arrested. There has been very little press coverage on this, including by queer outlets run by cis white people.

This is heartbreaking. I don’t even have words right now. (Note that Aleanna’s last name was Belcher, not Bechdel as given in the thumbnail.)

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My family got this notice, as well as an email from an advocacy group telling us to hire a lawyer. So when I tell you I'm done voting Blue No Matter Who, PLEASE believe me. We need proactive, explicit political protection, not "of course there should be fairness in sports" bullshit.

i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

more than 20 years, here, for me. i wish cis people put any effort at all into considering this period of guarded isolation, let alone imagining what it's like to go though.

For some trans people - and I very much include myself so this is not only trans women - the act of transitioning goes hand in hand with a newfound belief in our own worthiness and right to be here. Being bold and uncompromising may rub some people the wrong way, but that's their problem.

This is heartbreaking, both in the beauty of her voice and the life stolen from her.

I mean they once ruled a guy shot in the head in the back of a police car with his hands cuffed after being searched twice for weapons with a gap in footage around the shooting a suicide so yeah I'm gonna say the police should be trusted on nothing and should have no role in deciding these things

i just checked and these posts are real some cool people I follow are following him and you should maybe know how transphobic he is this is the kinda bullshit that puts us in a lot more danger and from a guy who calls himself an ally! (do I ever have a trans tuesday for him next week)

this is a well-reported piece which addresses actual harms & this “should” shit from the NYAG is absolutely worthless when it’s coming from someone whose strongest move on unconstitutional cessation of care was a stern letter with no follow through TWO MONTHS AGO. “should” is meaningless.

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its "bullying" when a woman does it, especially a trans woman, but its "jokes" when a guy does it, especially a white guy. women are "mean", men are "funny." women "dogpile", men "stand up for themselves." the more marginalized the woman is, the less she will be defended or mourned.

i still don’t know what to do about it and goddamn has it ever gotten worse over the last few years. it got so bad so fast.

Name your fav film that flopped. I'm still disappointed that we'll probably never get a sequel to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. It was so much fun.

Murry, a trans man, has also been missing since late April www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

One of the compounding tragedies of a trans woman's murder is the way that her death comes to define her, even in the tales told by our own community. We must remember how Juniper *lived*, and how much beauty she packed into such a short life. What an incredible voice.

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the media's deliberate choice of ignoring murders of trans people also makes it ever easier for liberals, who have often find us inconvenient, dismiss the concerns of trans people, of trans women, by saying we're all moving to safe blue cities in blue states

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also worth noting that when the media erases or buries the “trans” in the rare story about the murder of a trans person, that they’re just continuing the work of the fascists, who stopped tracking anti trans crimes on a federal level last year.

I don't care about the killer's political leanings or whether or not he had a mental illness (because, of course, that doesn't make you kill, nor does it make you transphobic). Juniper was killed by the society that debated her existence, and now will debate her death and if she is worthy to mourn.

And it doesn't matter if he killed her with transphobic rage in his heart or not. He's a product of a transphobic society that taught him that trans people, and especially trans women, are disposable and the enemy who must be stopped. Every killing of a trans person is a transphobic killing.

welp

tbh i’d be a bigger fan and proponent of the “inside-outside” strategy for organizing in electoral politics if the “inside” people considered themselves, uh, part of a strategy with the people on the outside

"You can't be having all these trans women being murdered by men in the headlines when you're trying to convince the public that the safest thing would be for trans women to use the men's bathroom and locker room. "You run the risk of people seeing through the propaganda that way."

The more we learn about Juniper the more beside myself I am. This city is supposed to be one of the very few in this wretched country that’s a haven for us to actually get to live in, to grow old in, and we failed her. I’m sick.

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People need to start reading about the mass migration of trans people to so-called "safe states" and the rise in hate crimes the community is experiencing. Hundreds of thousands of people in the US have been displaced. Gender cleansing

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his lawyer tried to argue the attack wasn't premeditated, and in light of this detail I am just ... I've been spiralling a bit, the audacity, they know they can just say whatever and the system won't protect us

astounding to me how stupid everyone who hates us is

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

I am heartbroken about Juniper Blessing. I remember teaching kids her age, bright and curious with so much they wanted to do in the world. She deserved so much better.

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

Someday I would love if my community’s lives would count the same as everyone else’s in this society.

I feel so incredibly awful for this poor girl and her broken hearted family. I really wish the world were different. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

Absolutely devastating read. www.them.us/story/slain-...

This happened against a backdrop of a large scale migration of trans people to the Seattle metro area combined with an alarming rise in the number of hate crimes against trans women in the area. These events are happening in the city’s university district, and in its ‘gayborhood’.

I should also say, shame on KING 5 for publishing Juniper's previous name and putting Juniper in quotes as if it were a nickname; by contrast, kudos to the Seattle Times for getting it right and addressing her properly.

When you think of the enormity of the loss, the life stolen and cut short, all the potential and possibility snuffed out so violently, one wants to burst. It is, in the most cosmic sense, injustice. May Juniper's memory be a blessing, and inspire us all.