For those that sow with tears, with joy will reap.

[kaizoku]

Aaand this is depressing: Iraq’s Newly Open Gays Face Scorn and Murder. While the article says "gay men" it's pretty obvious that some are (also) transgendered.

Also from the NYT: A Passover Song is beautiful and well-worth reading. And then go check out A Facebook Haggadah because it's hilarious.

Comments

[decor-noctis.livejournal.com]

I don't know what's more depressing, the subject of that article or the fact that in it the trans people aren't afforded their (presumably) preferred pronouns.

[kaizoku.livejournal.com]

I'm figuring that they may not have specified pronouns or maybe they self-identify as gay... I suppose it doesn't matter too much if your family wants to kill you either way. :-(

[decor-noctis.livejournal.com]

This is true :( It just stuck out to me as a trans man, and it adds insult to injury, y'know?

[kaizoku.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get that. I just don't want to assume that they're using the same labels I'm familiar with.

[ubixtiz.livejournal.com]

There is the one case where the article clearly states a preferred name and then proceeds to use a different name in all subsequent references, though. It doesn't come off as the most repectful choice on the part of the interviewer(s), though it certainly seems small in comparison to the violence described in the article.

[paper-tzipporah.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, the Facebook Haggadah is AMAZING!

[kaizoku.livejournal.com]

XD!

[thelemic.livejournal.com]

*sigh* That is one hell of a depressing article. Oh Iraq :/

[ubixtiz.livejournal.com]

That article is chilling.

I'm intrigued by the similarity some of the situations bear to descriptions of queer culture in North America a few decades ago. Police keeping people from meeting in cafés and so forth...the gathering of transgenderism and homosexuality under the "gay" label is similar too, I suppose. The family- and death squad-initiated murders perhaps not quite so much. :|