Transgender Day of Remembrance: Student Activism

The flyer posted below was created by Willow Shaughnessey, Woolman Semester student from Fall 2009 as part of her Global Issues' Youth as Peacebuilder project. For the semester long assignment, Willow analayzed the conflict of Transgender Hate Crimes, hoping to come to an understand of the root causes of this worldwide problem. As her case study, she looked deeply into the murder of Lateisha Green, a woman who was killed in 2008.

Willow and I spent an afternoon in Nevada City and Grass Valley, asking stores if we could hang this beautiful piece that she made. The poster has one of my favorite quotes by Leslie Feinberg, statistics related to the issue, as well as a brief paragraph telling about a hate crime victim. Another really neat part of the posters were the tabs that you could tear off the bottom with links to Transgender awareness and support groups. I encourage you to explore the sites yourself!