Even though it’s remembrance of all the deaths worldwide, most writings you’ll find about TDOR online will be from the US, where the day started. But it’s important to acknowledge the specifics of exactly who it is dying, rather than universalise the violence as affecting all trans men, women, genderqueers and other non-binaries equally.
Politics
Femmostroppo Reader November 17, 2010
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UK Guantanamo detainee settlements
This settlement allows the government to kick the formal inquiry about government complicity in maltreatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees to a judicial review, of which the most obvious benefit is that secret papers from the intelligence services will not be subpoenaed to be presented in an open court.
Remembering Bobbi Sykes 1944-2010
Dr Sykes (although she had not yet even begun her PhD) was the first woman I ever saw referred to as an activist on the TV news, when she was arrested in 1972 as the police overran the Aboriginal Tent Embassy outside Parliament House in Canberra. There will be no picture of her here now that she is deceased.
Marriage Equality Rally in Sydney — November 27th
Post made sticky on the front page because the march is this weekend!
Recently in airport security
A Scottish comedian whose name I can’t remember now once said (paraphrasing) “keep a close eye on how your airports are treating you, because that’s how the authorities would like to treat you all the time”.
Femmostroppo Reader November 14, 2010
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Finally
Burma’s military rulers have released the country’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest
Belated hooray for the High Court
About time that we had more accountability and transparency about our treatment of asylum seekers who are processed offshore; successive governments have been keeping them conveniently out of voters’ sight for far too long now, which allows all sorts of wild claims to be made about these mythical beings.
Of course, some voters prefer it that way, but I don’t think much of those voters’ worldview on good citizenship.
Quicklink: high-school formal says no to same-sex couple
An Ivanhoe Grammar girl wasn’t allowed to take her girlfriend to her high-school formal.
Hoyden About Town 