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Queer community vigil/solidarity space

A trigger warning that I'm about to describe (briefly, not in detail) a recent transphobic hate crime to give context ,for this post. If you don't want to read about this, please skip the following paragraph.

On Saturday afternoon at around 3:30, the body of a 16-year old trans girl, Brianna Ghey, was found. She was murdered by two cis-gender 15-year olds. Vigils have been happening across the country in Brianna's honour, and very sadly I was unable to attend the one held this evening in my city. 

I'm thinking about opening up a regular online vigil space in which the queer community can share our griefs, fears, hopes, support and solidarity. For all sorts of reasons vigils held outside our homes or in noisy, crowded spaces may not be accessible to everyone who wants to attend. And I also think that a space in which more people from a wider diversity of geographical locations could be meaningful. If you're a member of the queer community, I would really value hearing how you would feel about this.

More generally, if anyone needs solidarity as a queer person in this harsh world or more specifically thi space, perhaps this thread could become a written space to share that.

Take care, all Rainbow

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  • i dunno, its all a social construct at the end of the day and i dont do social stuff as i imagine most of us here dont. its all a modern day social trend and not many of us get into social trends. i suppose if there are some zoomer autistics here it might be all the craze for them, although as autistic they often wont fit in with trends anyway so i dont really get it.

    i see the world by action, not by word, this wording and social trending is all judging and seeing the world by society and social things and i cant see it that way... i see it by action.... to me i see you lot saying to people "right, you are this label and that label, and it means your a nasty person and your evil because of your skin colour and also because of your gender and you should be bad and you had it all good" thats how i see it, just people judging others by social words and groupings without any idea for the persons experiences actions or life. im saddened to see autistic people seeing the world through society and made up social constructs rather than seeing it literally by actions and deeds of individuals and their own life and experience.

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