Advocate.comA devastating reality: New report finds violence and erasure ahead of Transgender Day of Remembrance
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-violence-erasure-report
✯Pumpkin👑Prole🎃Fucking lazy #cops and their bullshit. Hateful or apathetic social workers who couldn't recognize a plea for help. fuck the cops and fuck DSS.
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Todd Bohannon“The brutal killing of #SamNordquist , a 24-year-old transgender man, brought new urgency to a march in the Capital Region advocating for the preservation of equal rights among the #LGBTQ+ and transgender communities” https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/marchers-demand-action-for-lgbtq-rights-after-killing-of-transgender-man
“Evidence suggests that #SamNordquist had been subjected to physical abuse between Dec & Feb culminating in what the Ontario county district attorney, Jim Ritts, said was ‘by far the worst homicide investigation that our office has ever been a part of” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/sam-nordquist-killing-matthew-shepard
“Some similarities between the deaths of #SamNordquist and Matthew Shepard, the 21-year-old University of Wyoming student who was brutally attacked, tortured and left to die while tied to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998, are becoming apparent” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/sam-nordquist-killing-matthew-shepard
Jennifer Moore 😷Cannot get my head round how articles like this can say "no evidence of a hate crime" in this context.
I think they must mean either (a) the people charged with the murder knew him, or (b) some or all of them were L/G/B/T/Q.
But like... neither of those proves that the murder wasn't motivated at all by racism, or that it wasn't motivated at all by transmisia. It's bad logic. And erasure i.m.o.
RIP Sam.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/21/us/transgender-man-murder-new-york-charges/index.html
OtterForceI doubt I have many Western New York people in my feeds, but we’re gathering tomorrow to demand justice, to mourn, and to remember.
Join us.
Butterfly LaChoi
wReading about the torture and murder of trans man Sam Nordquist...
What is wrong with people that they can behave like this to ANY human being?
Oh, Sam. What you must have endured.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c391grm0g3no
#SamNordquist #trans #transman #lgbtq #unitedstates #transphobia #murder #torture #newyork #minnesota #ftm
MxFoomIn loving memory of Sam Nordquist.
Chalk markers on 7×9.5 black paper, 2025.
@bodythudz_artisanworks
Not my words, but saw this and wanted to share them:
“What happened to Sam Nordquist is beyond horrific.
Sam came to New York, hoping for love and connection. Instead, they were met with the worst of human depravity. But this wasn’t just the act of five individuals—it was the product of a society that has made dehumanization a political strategy. We have seen this before.
Transphobia is not an opinion. It is a weapon. The politicians, media figures, and online personalities pushing fear and lies about trans people are creating a culture where violence like this is not only possible but inevitable.
Sam was not a statistic, not a headline, not a talking point. He was a person with hopes, dreams, and a future that was stolen from them. His name deserves to be remembered louder than those who took their life. We must say their name, mourn their loss, and fight back against the culture that allowed this to happen.
Hate does not stay contained in words—it festers, it spreads, and it kills. It killed Sam. And unless we stand up, it will kill again.”