Their name was Nex Benedict.
They were 16 years old and deserved to live for many more years.
I can’t stop thinking about them and how every adult in that school and state failed them.
How the hateful rhetoric and dog whistle bathroom bills pushed by far right religious extremists led to this tragedy.
3 older teen girls beat them so badly they died from their injuries. Nex was murdered by hate.
We have been warning that the legal targeting of the trans community recently was going to lead to tragedy like this. We have been screaming from the rooftops that the right wing isn’t protecting anyone. And here we are.
I will continue to do what I can in the off line space to make the world safer for my community.
But I will also not forget Nex Benedict. Say their name. Remember who they were and who they never got the chance to become.
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today is the 1 year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s Morality Police. it sparked massive protests by Iranian citizens, largely women, seeking rights, justice, and freedom.
the movement is not over. progress is being made, but it has been brutal. many have been jailed, tortured, assaulted, and killed. please continue supporting Iranian citizens and uplifting their message.
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It's so crazy... 2020 feels like a complete fever dream... I thought and hoped and prayed that we would keep the BLM momentum going like it was that year... But we didn't .... People started to forget and speak on it less.
I posted and still post as much as I can ab Black lives on my Facebook... Ab other social justice issues. Sometimes it felt like I was just screaming into a void... I still feel betrayed at times, by the white girlies who just a few years ago were in the streets saying "if they start shooting stand behind me"
My life doesn't feel important to most ppl. They talk a big game ab caring and wanting things to change, but at the end of the day most ppl don't want the status quo to change. They just want to do enough to look like a good person.
If this post makes you angry, makes you feel some typa way then I URGE you to look inwards and figure out WHY it strikes such an uncomfortablity in you. Figure out what you could be doing more...
I know it's difficult to hear these words, I know looking inwards is hard and uncomfortable, I've been there, I STILL have a cop in my head that I need to kill. We ALL do!
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Hi....
This News came out at the end of November, but I couldn't share it with you guys (due to Laziness. I'm sorry)....
News
Farideh Moradkhani, the niece of Islamic Republic’s "Supreme" Leader, calls on international community to support Iranians. She compares her uncle to Hitler and Mussolini. She says Iranians will overthrow the Islamic Republic.
She was then arrested.
It checks out. She is indeed a Niece of Khamenei.
I have shared the (link to the youtube) Video here...
Edit- The Morality Police did not get disbanded. It was just Propaganda by the West, that s*cks Khamenei D*ck....
Shame on them.
Well. Shame on me.
Fool me once, shame on me......
Please share.
Please reblog.
Freedom for Iran.
Women. Life. Freedom
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when we lose another sibling
CONTENT WARNING: death. proceed with care and be kind to yourself.
when we lose another sibling
(and we surely will),
i want you to go outside
and cry
and cry
and cry
and cry.
when we lose another sibling
i want you to scream
at the top of your lungs:
THEY DID NOT DESERVE TO DIE.
when we lose another sibling
i want you to shout yourself hoarse
at this vast
indifferent abyss:
IT DID NOT HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS.
when we lose another sibling
i want you to gather flowers
and palm fronds
and fill the street with mourning.
when we lose another sibling
i want you to say their names.
when we lose another sibling
i want you to give the world
a warning:
THINGS WILL NOT BE THE SAME.
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SAY THEIR NAMES.
Over the past year, these trans and nonbinary people died under violent circumstances in the United States.
Eden Knight - 3/12/2023
Siyah Woodland - 3/24/2023
Ashley Burton - 4/11/2023
Koko Da Doll - 4/18/2023
Banko Brown - 4/27/2023
LaKendra Andrews - 4/29/2023
Om(e) Gandhi - 5/16/2023
Ashia Davis - 6/2/2023
Chanell Perez Ortiz - 6/25/2023
Jacob Williamson - 6/30/2023
Fernielle Mary Mora - 7/6/2023
Onyx John - 7/16/2023
Camdyn Rider - 7/21/2023
Jean Butchart - 8/4/2023
DéVonnie J’Rae Johnson - 8/7/2023
Luis Ángel Díaz Castro - 8/12/2023
Lovely Page - 8/16/2023
Thomas ‘Tom-Tom’ Robertson - 8/17/2023
Alexa Andreevna Sokova - 9/5/2023
Codii Lawrence - 9/5/2023
Bre’Asia Bankz - 9/5/2023
Kylie Monali - 9/7/2023
Charm Wilson - 9/8/2023
Sherlyn Marjorie - 9/17/2023
YOKO - 9/19/2023
A’nee Johnson - 10/4/2023
Chyna Long - 10/8/2023
Dominic Dupree - 10/13/2023
Lisa Love - 10/17/2023
Nova Dunn - 10/17/2023
Skylar Harrison Reeves - 10/20/2023
London Price - 10/23/2023
F.L. “Bubba” Copeland - 11/3/2023
Kejuan Richardson - 11/14/2023
Amiri Reid - 11/14/2023
Kejuan Richardson - 11/14/2023
Shandon Floyd - 11/15/2023
Savannah Ryan Williams - 11/29/2023
Amber Minor - 12/24/2023
Meghan Riley Lewis - 12/27/2023
Kitty Monroe - 1/1/2024
Tristan Bustos - 1/25/2024
Nex Benedict - 2/7/2024
Ash Clatterbuck - 2/27/2024
Righteous TK “Chevy” Hill - 2/28/2024
Reyna Hernandez - 3/8/2024
Diamond Brigman - 3/16/2024
Alex Franco - 3/17/2024
Meraxes Medina - 3/19/2024
AND THOSE WE NOW NAME.
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Man with gun kills two women. Coward uses gun on unarmed victims.
This is misogyny. It is the oxygen for all Right Wing rhetoric. Violence towards women is GOP policy.
Republicans will do NOTHING to lower gun deaths because gun deaths drive guns sales, and Republicans will never hurt gun sales.
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