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Sep. 21st, 2006
Great Sorrow on the Equinox
Sep. 21st, 2006 04:22 pmI've been totally focussed on my Tarot Deck Honours project today, and am starting to feel the cost of that.
Earlier today I searched the net for photos of murdered trans folk. While it is disturbingly easy to find news and other references of such, photographic images of teh victims are much less common. However, I did find enough for me to do my "extra card" for my deck. In each case however, I had to find out just how they died because that was important to the final version of the card.
I found that trans people had been: shot; shot multiple times; strangled; tortured to death; beaten; subject to violent attack; run down; thrown from buildings; and set on fire. The last I found particulary disturbing. Not only was transsexual woman Haydar Faiek burnt to death by a mob in Iraq last September, but so was Maxwell Confait in England (in 1972)!
Today is Spring Equinox and I ought to be thinking about the "joy of life", but all I can think of is misery and sorrow. Think I need a break from this project. I'll let the draft of the 2nd Death Card sit for a while, and come back to it. Tomorrow I'm staying home no matter what - I've been at uni three days straight with l-o-n-g hours, focussed mostly on just one thing. Gah.
Earlier today I searched the net for photos of murdered trans folk. While it is disturbingly easy to find news and other references of such, photographic images of teh victims are much less common. However, I did find enough for me to do my "extra card" for my deck. In each case however, I had to find out just how they died because that was important to the final version of the card.
I found that trans people had been: shot; shot multiple times; strangled; tortured to death; beaten; subject to violent attack; run down; thrown from buildings; and set on fire. The last I found particulary disturbing. Not only was transsexual woman Haydar Faiek burnt to death by a mob in Iraq last September, but so was Maxwell Confait in England (in 1972)!
In fucking bloody England for shit sake, not some anarchic occupied state with barely enough law and order to protect the occupiers let alone the occupied!
I am utterly and totally outraged by this. I've had a notion to run a Day of Remembrance here in Newcastle in November, and by Cybele I'm going to do it.Today is Spring Equinox and I ought to be thinking about the "joy of life", but all I can think of is misery and sorrow. Think I need a break from this project. I'll let the draft of the 2nd Death Card sit for a while, and come back to it. Tomorrow I'm staying home no matter what - I've been at uni three days straight with l-o-n-g hours, focussed mostly on just one thing. Gah.
