Chanelle, Monique, and Rita: The Start of TDOR

Description

In the late 1990s, three Black transgender women in the Boston area were murdered and each case had a different outcome. After the third murder, an activist across the country in San Francisco became increasingly frustrated that the narrative about violence against transgender people was being controlled by the media outside the community. She started the Transgender Day of Remembrance, refusing to forget the stories of those we’ve lost.

Resources mentioned:

Trans Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape http://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/faculty/161

Gender Inc http://genderinc.com/

Ayanna Pressley’s full speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlG4ayQ2kM4

National Center for Transgender Equality https://transequality.org/

Gender Spectrum https://genderspectrum.org/

Black Trans Advocacy Coalition https://blacktrans.org/

Human Rights Campaign https://hrc.org

The Trevor Project https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

Credits

Researched, written, hosted, and edited by Charlie Worroll

Music by Scott Buckley

Cover art by Lars Hacking, host of Rusty Hinges podcast

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Sources

Internet

• http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=entertainment&sc=music&sc2=features&sc3&id=83392

• https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/11/20/rita-hester-trans-women-vigil-boston-murders

• https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2019/09/07/stallings%20rod%202019.pdf

• http://www.masstpc.org/community-events/tdor/ma-trans-victims/

• http://www.gendertalk.com/chanelle-pickett-story/

• https://theconversation.com/transgender-americans-are-more-likely-to-be-unemployed-and-poor-127585

• https://www.glaad.org/transgender/transfaq

• http://www.gendertalk.com/pubs/1997-Travesty%20of%20justice.pdf

• http://brandon.guggenheim.org/court/CASESTUDY/pickett.html

NEWSPAPERS

• Stabbing Victim a Mystery to Many, The Boston Globe, 30 Nov 1998

• Police Seek Information in Allston Slaying, The Boston Globe, 19 Feb 1999

• Transgender Day of Remebrance, The Boston Globe, 20 Nov 2018

• Mourning as a Community, The LA Times, 24 Nov 2013

• Group Sees Harsher Anti-Gay Crimes, The Boston Globe, 7 Apr 1999

• Suspect Arrested, Faces Extradition, The Boston Globe, 23 Sep 1998

• Dorchester Man Found Murders, The Boston Globe, 13 Sep 1998

• Remembering a victim, decrying a crime, The Boston Globe, 11 Dec 1995

• Victim’s Cries Were No Game, The Boston Globe, 25 Apr 1997

• Facts, Decision hard to Explain, the Boston Globe, 19 May 1997

• Trial Underway for Man Charged in Transsexual’s Death, The Boston Globe, 17 Apr 1997

• Transvestite Beater Acquitted of Murder, North Adams Transcript, 17 May 1997

• Sibling Decries Murder Acquittal, The Boston Globe, 3 May 1997