Kathryn Newhouse was my friend, and we lost her. https://www.hrc.org/news/an-advocate-for-trans-rights-with-a-bright-smile-hrc-celebrates-the-life-of-kathryn-katie-newhouse
In honor of her passing, which was tragic, I recall the time that we lost her.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/when-a-sister-falls
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I wrote something, they said. For her. Onyx's jaw tightened. I watched the muscles work under their skin, watched them fight the thing that lives in their throat every 19th
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Filipino-American. Autistic. Transgender. Nineteen. Onyx's voice cracked on the number. Each word a target and she wore them all at once like armor she shouldn't have needed.
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The memory of her humor lived in my chest alongside the memory of her absence, the two coexisting because grief doesn't follow physics.
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She played #Minecraft like it was liturgy, Onyx said, reaching for something other than death. Built cathedrals out of cobblestone and #redstone.
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