Thinking and Remembering Violence

This week many of us across the country and around the world are taking some intentional time to remember the lives and mark the violent deaths of strangers, friends, and family who have been murdered.  It's the 13th Annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance.  Because trans folks are part of my family and community I may think about issues of gender and violence more than people whose lives aren't so explicitly oriented toward gender presentation.  Being gender variant myself is...