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...Rita Hamad...
Today, the group plans to attend a vigil in Boston in honor of the day of remembrance. The day commemorates the death of Rita Hester, a transsexual woman who was killed four years ago today in Boston, as well as the deaths of other “victims of transphobia,” according to Skier...
...perform ambiguous social genders. Today marks the fourth annual observance of the National Transgender Day of Awareness, a day set aside to remember those who have lost their lives because of anti-transgender fear and hatred. The Day of Remembrance began as a way to publicly grieve for Rita Hester, a transgendered woman murdered on November 28, 1998. An online monument and scattered candlelight vigils soon gathered momentum, and the scale of this year’s observance—rallies in Boston and New York, a candlelight vigil in Indianapolis, memorial services in Minneapolis-St. Paul—will...
...remember so that we might celebrate the life of Rita Hester and so many others. We remember so that we might shine a light on the inhumanity of their killers. We remember in the hope that next November, there will be no new reasons to mourn...
...Rita Goldberg, a lecturer on Literature who had been familiar with his work, began gathering a protest as soon as Paulin’s lecture was announced last week...