transdada

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Saturday, November 15, 2003

Remembering Our Dead
Nov. 20th, 2003

because
37 trans flokz have been murdered this year.

http://www.gender.org/remember/day/where.html

this year:
Timothy "Cinnamon" Broadus
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
8-Jan-03
Shot multiple times

Nikki Nicholas
Green Oak Township, Michigan
21-Feb-03
Shot to death

Danisha Victoria Principal Williams
Bradenton, Florida
28-Feb-03
Murdered

Unknown Transgendered woman
Cali, Columbia
6-Mar-03
Stabbed multiple times

Ronald Andrew Brown
Frenchville, North Rockhampton, Australia
7-Mar-03
Stabbed to death, allegedly by Jason Edward Piper

Merlinka (Vjeran Miladinovic)
Belgrade, Serbia
22-Mar-03
Beaten to death

Jorge Rafael Cruz
Guatamala City, Guatamala
25-Mar-03
Murdered

Kim Mimi Young
Washington, D.C.
9-Apr-03
Stabbed to death

Jessica Mercado
New Haven, Connecticut
9-May-03
Stabbed multiple times, then burnt

Hendricks Thomas aka Tanesha Starr
Birmingham, Alabama
22-May-03
Stabbed multiple times

Shelby Tracey Tom
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
31-May-03
Murdered, allegedly by Jatin Patel

Michael Charles Hurd
Houston, Texas
18-Jun-03
Shot to death

Dayana Valverde
Guatamala City, Guatamala
1-Jul-03
Shot

Rogelio Jiménez Cortez
Guatamala City, Guatamala
4-Jul-03
Shot

Ericka (Erick David) Yáñez
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
15-Jul-03
Shot and killed, allegedly by a police officer

Cinnamon (Kendrick) Perry
Houston, Texas
20-Jul-03
Shot to death

Nireah Johnson
Indianapolis, Indiana
22-Jul-03
Shot to death, allegedly by Paul Anthony Moore

Brandie Coleman
Indianapolis, Indiana
22-Jul-03
Shot to death, allegedly by Paul Anthony Moore

Selena Álvarez-Hernández
Council Bluffs, Iowa
31-Jul-03
Stabbed several times

Amirilis
Guatamala City, Guatamala
3-Aug-03
Shot to death

Marcelo Cesar Goulart
Criciúma, Brazil
8-Aug-03
Stabbed several times

Bella Evangelista
Washington, D.C.
16-Aug-03
Shot, allegedly by Antoine Jacobs

Emonie Kiera Spaulding
Washington, D.C.
20-Aug-03
Shot, allegedly by Antwan D. Lewis. Emonie also had severe head wounds.

Cassandra "Tula" Do
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
26-Aug-03
Strangled

Enrico Taglialatela
Napoli, Italy
30-Aug-03
Burned

Ricardo "Sindy" Cuarda
San Pablo, California
30-Sep-03
Shot multiple times

Adrian Torres de Assuncao
Brescia, Italy
7-Oct-03
Bludgeoned and dumped along site the road

Erika Johana
Rome, Italy
10-Oct-03
Bludgeoned

Rider Orcero
Milan, Italy
30-Oct-03
Strangled

Stanley Van Dyke Traylor
Oakland, California
6-Nov-03
Shot multiple times

____________

in the past years:

Reported anti-transgender deaths, 1970-2003
Source: Remembering Our Dead - http://www.rememberingourdead.org/
Larry Lavern Turner
Los Angeles, California
7-Mar-70
Shot by the LAPD

Unidentified crossdressed male
New York, New York
1972
Puncture wounds over the right eye

Maxwell Confait
Catford, England
21-Apr-72
Strangled

Jamie D. Ford
San Diego, California
1973
Stabbed

William Battles
South Bronx, New York
24-Nov-73
Beat and sexually mutilated by members of a local street gang.

Joseph Moran
Redwood City, California
1974
Stabbed by Richard Mroczko

Jae Stevens
San Francisco, California
24-Jun-74
Five stab wounds, three directly to the heart.

Harvey Aberles
New York, New York
1975
Shot by NYPD

Yancey-Lisa R.
San Francisco, California
1975
Stabbed once in the abdomen and four times in the back

Barbarella (Joe V.)
San Francisco, California
15-Mar-75
Stabbed in the chest

Unidentified man dressed in women's clothes
New York, New York
Aug-75
Murdered, allegedly by William Harris.

Nikki
New York, New York
1976
Thrown off roof

Toni Lee
New York, New York
1976
Murdered

Terri Williams Moore
Lynnville, Iowa
20-May-76
Shot in the head and back by Richard A. Moore

Jody Susan Ford
Birmingham, Alabama
4-Apr-77
Shot with a shotgun by Larry Maddox

"Benderella" (Benjamin Scott Rae)
Tacoma, Washington
10-Jul-77
Shot in the face three times with a small caliber handgun, by Victor Lynn Velasquez.

Cynthia Coffman
Nashville, Tennessee
24-Jul-77
Shot to death by Dan Edward Jones

Felicia Coffman
Nashville, Tennessee
24-Jul-77
Shot to death by Dan Edward Jones

Perry Young
New York, New York
21-Dec-77
Shot in the head by Ronald Haynes

Unknown man dressed in women's clothing
Boston, Massachusetts
1979
Murdered

Rita Sellers
El Rancho, Colorado
16-Dec-79
Murdered

Kristi Independence Kelly
California
1980
Died in a plane crash: the suspicion is that Kristi had probably been assassinated by "Dannites" (the covert paramilitary wing of the Mormon Church).

Jean Shelley Boushard Fox (Jeannie Sheppard)
Howell, New Jersey
15-Dec-80
Shot by Robert Fox

Barbara (William) Brodie
Feltonville, Pennsylvania
3-Jan-81
Internal injuries: the liver, abdomen, and lungs were punctured when a blunt instrument was inserted in Brodie's rectum.

Ernest "Ernestine" Murray
Oakland, California
2-Mar-81
Shot

Andre Vacarro
Providence, Rhode Island
15-Aug-81
Numerous stab wounds and a gunshot to the head

Diane Delia
New York, New York
7-Oct-81
Shot four times in the head by her husband, Robert Ferrera

Terry Wilson
New York, New York
25-Dec-81
Stabbed to death, allegedly by Warren Yaeger

Unidentified man wearing high-heeled shoes, a dress and a waist-length jacket
Washington, D.C.
4-Jan-82
Shot to death

Dianne Aubert
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
16-Feb-82
Stabbed in the back 121 times.

Tara O'Hara
Berlin, Germany
1983
Head was bashed in

Linda Williams
Yonkers, New York
15-Oct-83
Stabbed to death by Ron Johnson

Unknown man wearing women's clothes
Miami, Florida
1984
Shot to death

Adele Bailey
N.E. Victoria, Austrailia
1984
Shot

Chiron Collins (Allen Kenneth Byrd)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
May-84
42 stab wounds to the head, neck, face, and arm by Theodore Roebuck.

Philip Robert Filshie
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
20-Dec-84
Stabbed in the side by Joyce Lorraine Filshie.

Tianna (Timothy) Langley
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1-Mar-85
Shot once in the back of the head

Cortez Morris
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
17-Apr-85
Knife wound to the chest by Joseph Alexander

Felix Benitez
New York, New York
16-Jul-85
Murdered

Stella Essie (Jerome Brent)
Chicago, Illinois
17-Jul-85
Hit in the head with a sledgehammer by Loveless Austin

Clyde Massie
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
15-Aug-85
Shot to death by Stepehen Orosz Jr.

Jessica (Gerardo) Castillo
New Brunswick, New Jersey
7-Oct-85
Shot in the head by Felix Rodriguez Diaz and Pedro Juan Concepcion

Faustino "Tina" Arroyo
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
30-Jun-86
Suffocated, beaten and sexually mutilated by Donald Jennings.

Jonathan "Tanya" Streater
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
30-Jun-86
Shot in the face, beaten and sexually mutilated by Donald Jennings.

Monique Rogers
Boston, Massachusetts
3-Aug-86
Drowned

Diane (Anthony Ellsworth) Carter
Boston, Massachusetts
16-Sep-86
Shot in the buttocks

Phyllis Olson
Minneapolis, Minnesota
23-Sep-86
Strangled

John
Desert City, California
1-Oct-86
Shot

David F. McLaughlin
Syracuse, New York
1-Oct-86
Murdered

Marvin Ball
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1987
Gunshot wound

Michelle Byrne
Nashville, Tennessee
Jan-87
Tortured for several hours, beaten to death, and beheaded by Kenneth Poole and Ralph David Frantzreb

Jane Golden (James Boyd)
St. Petersburg, Florida
6-Feb-87
Murdered by Steven W. White

Lisa Janna Black
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2-Mar-87
Struck 20 times with a hammer by Synthia Kavanagh, her roommate and another transsexual. Kavanaugh also stuck a knife into one of Black's eyes. Brian Inch was reported as beating and stabbing Black.

Cam "Camilla" Lyman
Hopkinton, Rhode Island
Jul-87
Murdered

Rosando "Crystal" Sanchez-Reyes
Oxnard, California
25-Dec-87
Shot six times at point blank range by Daniel Montenegro Delgado.

Ruby Bota
Gibsonton, Florida
1988
Unknown

Samantha (Samuel) York
Fayetteville, North Carolina
26-Jun-88
Murdered, allegedly by James Edward Shaffer

Ramon Baez
Mexico City, Mexico
17-Jul-88
Murder, allegedly by Omar Francisco Orea Ochoa, Juan Carlos Fragoso, and Jorge Montes.

Charles Albert Lizotte
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4-Oct-88
Beat with a weight bar by Yves Joseph LeClerc

Toni (David) Lowry
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
20-Oct-88
Multiple stab wounds to the chest, allegedly by David E. Neal aka Micky Alphonso Accardo

Vernon Sivills
Norfolk, Virginia
4-Nov-88
Head injuries attained in a hit-and-run accident perpetrated by Michael O'Donnell and Joseph P. Stone.

Unknown man dressed in women's clothing
Santa Ana, California
20-Nov-88
Shot once in the chest

Venus Xtravaganza
New York, New York
1989
Murdered

Peggy Santiago
South Bronx, New York
1989
Murdered

Steven Hernandez
San Francisco, California
16-Feb-89
Murdered by Kelly Nichols

Lindsey Alexander (Todd Alexander Asay)
Portland, Oregon
May-89
Shot to death, allegedly by Brian David Hill.

Carla Leigh Salazar
Santa Ana, California
28-Jun-89
Multiple stab wounds

Juaquin Jiminez
New York, New York
1-Oct-89
Beaten to death, allegedly by Richard Davella

Castro Nova Estabon
San Diego, California
11-Jun-90
Shot

Rafael Sanchez Ayala
San Diego, California
11-Jun-90
Shot in the head

Julie Birchall
San Francisco, California
16-Jun-90
Injuries substained in a hit and run accident.

Sherri Ransom
Morrisville, Pennsylvania
24-Jun-90
Beaten to death with a hammer by Johnny Fitzpatrick.

Jose Angel Osuna
San Diego, California
2-Jul-90
Shot several times in the chest and stomach.

Eduardo Lora Vasallio
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
11-Aug-90
Shot four times by Vernon Bryan

Donald Pierce
San Diego, California
4-Sep-90
Struck by a car driven by Fred Ray Belloff and dragged about 50 feet.

Lim Yeow Chuan
Singapore
27-Oct-90
Stabbed multiple times by Kuppiah Saravanan

Michelle Hays (Joe Michael Hays)
Memphis, Tennessee
3-Nov-90
Shot in the chest

Felix Abarca
East County, California, on Sunrise Highway
23-Nov-90
Murdered

Carlos "Tasha" Santiago
Oceanside, California
10-Dec-90
Shot to death by Jeffrey Todd Hammons and Todd Alan

Anna Francisco
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
22-Dec-90
Stabbed several times in the chest and stomach.

Edna Brown
Atlanta, Georgia
24-Dec-90
Shot to death

David Perez
San Francisco, California
1991
Murdered.

Unknown Man Wearing A Dress
Hollywood, California
18-Feb-91
Multiple gunshot wounds.

Unnamed Transvestite
San Antonio, Texas
29-Mar-91
Bludgeoned to death

Carmen Marie Montoya
Oakland, California
10-Jul-91
Multiple blows from a blunt object to her face and head

Patrick Calvert
St. Louis, Missouri
7-Aug-91
Stabbed

Shannon Elroy Clay
Greenville, North Carolina
24-Sep-91
Multiple stab wounds, allegedly by Robert Surdaca Rice, Gerald Julian Chandler, and Robert Lee Allgood.

Lynn Therrett
San Francisco, California
Oct-91
Murdered

Huriell "Gypsy" Lockett (David King)
Atlanta, Georgia
14-Oct-91
Shot in the head

Rhonda Star (Ronnie Dean Lyles)
Atlanta, Georgia
29-Oct-91
Shot to death

Unknown man wearing wig
Atlanta, Georgia
29-Oct-91
Killed by blow to head

Jean (Woodrow) Powell
Atlanta, Georgia
8-Nov-91
Shot in the back

Kenneth Dale Robinson (aka "Midnight," "Casandra")
San Antonio, Texas
17-Dec-91
Stabbed in the throat

Richard Goldman
New York, New York
29-Dec-91
Shot and killed by his father, retired state judge Milton Goldman.

Unknown Transvestite Prostitute
Bronx, New York
8-Feb-92
Beaten and stabbed to death by Augustin Rosado

Jessy Santiago
South Bronx, New York
18-Feb-92
Murdered, most likely by Augustin Rosado

Cameron "Tina" Tanner
San Francisco, California
21-Apr-92
Died as a result of wounds suffered March 11, 1992, when attacked by two individuals with baseball bats.

Harold Draper
Paterson, New Jersey
30-May-92
Multiple Stab Wounds

Rene "Michelle" Ouellet
Cape May, New Jersey
Jun-92
Strangled by Brian Halter

Marsha P. Johnson
New York, New York
6-Jul-92
Drowned

Robert K. Woelfel
Ixonia, Wisconsin
14-Oct-92
Shot twice by a shotgun blast, by Harold C. Maass

Victor Hugo Castillejos
Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico
Nov-92
Shot 10 times in the leg, chest and stomach with a 9mm pistol.

Anthony Swain
Atlanta, Georgia
8-Nov-92
Shot to death

Stephan "Stephanie" Chapman
New York, New York
Dec-92
Gunshot wound to the head

Grayce Baxter
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
8-Dec-92
Choked to death by Patrick Daniel Johnson, who then dismembered the body into several parts with a hacksaw.

Derry Glenn
Atlanta, Georgia
19-Dec-92
Shot to death

Unidentified crossdressed male
Atlanta, Georgia
20-Dec-92
Shot to death

Giuseppe Mandanici
Sicily, Italy
1993
Killed by a hit man hired by his father, Vincenzo Mandanici, for 700 dollars.

Chrissey (Marvin) Johnson
Baltimore, Maryland
2-Jan-93
Multiple stab wounds delivered by Allen Horton

Christiaan D'Arcy
Hartford, Connecticut
26-Jan-93
Strangled by Thomas Saltonstall. He also tied up D'Arcy and put him in the trunk of D'Arcy's car, which Saltonstall set on fire.

Delores Mack
Hahnville, Louisiana
22-Feb-93
Strangled

Quona R. Clark
Chicago, Illinois
2-Mar-93
Murdered

Gordon Tuckey
Sydney, Austrailia
Jul-93
Beaten to death by Thomas Dunn

Daniel A. Castro
Santa Ana, California
10-Jul-93
Shot once with a small-caliber handgun

Man dressed in women's clothing
Santa Ana, California
10-Jul-93
Shot to death

Donnie O. Osby
Orlando, Florida
17-Aug-93
Shot in the chest with a .45-caliber handgun by Keith Neil Washington

Dinh Van Vo
Honolulu, Hawaii
6-Sep-93
Strangled by Demian McGuire

Marquita (Martin) Johnson
Xenia, Ohio
7-Oct-93
Shot three times in the face at close range, by Juan Lamont Harding

Derrick "Miss Tess" Hampton
Memphis, Tennessee
23-Oct-93
Stabbed and beaten

David Edward Wigley
San Antonio, Texas
8-Nov-93
Stabbed repeatedly in the chest and stomach

Ashley-Ann Summers (Eric Farrow)
Columbus, Ohio
20-Nov-93
Shot to death

Larry Venzant
Chicago, Illinois
19-Dec-93
Stabbed repeatedly and castrated by David Feikema

Brandon (aka Brandon Teena, Tenna Ray Brandon, Teena Brandon)
Humboldt, Nebraska
31-Dec-93
Shot to death, then stabbed, by John Lotter and Marvin Thomas Nissen.

Alanna Kella
New York, New York
1994
Shot

Johanna Langer
Concord, California
2-Jan-94
Stabbed 120 times by Susan Mehuron.

Man dressed in women's clothing
San Diego, California
22-Jun-94
Murdered

Unknown Transvestite
Akron, Ohio
17-Sep-94
Murdered

Lazaro Comesana
Miami, Florida
17-Sep-94
Strangled to death by Rory Enrique Conde

Terrie Ladwig
Concord, California
Dec-94
Strangled

Rev. John "Gypsy" Prowett
Memphis, Tennessee
1995
Shot to death

Mara Duvouw
New York, New York
1995
Murdered

Unknown Partially Crossdressed Male
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1995
Shot in the head

Gisele Gaga' (Luiz Gastao Pereira Sobrinho)
Curitiba, Brazil
31-Jan-95
Shot by a police officer

Reynaldo "Reyna" Sandoval
Oxnard, California
26-Feb-95
Shot in the chest and head.

Debra Forte
Haverhill, Massachusetts
15-May-95
Multiple six-inch stab wounds to the chest, any of which would have been sufficient to kill her. She was also beaten about the head and shoulders, by Michel Thompson

Unknown man dressed in women's clothing
Oakland, California
10-Jul-95
Blows to the head and face

Valerie Hill
Akron, Ohio
12-Jul-95
Shotgun wound to the abdomen by Edward Blazeff

Tyra Hunter
Washington, D.C.
8-Aug-95
Received inadequate care from D.C. general hospital, and from the medical team on scene of the accident.

Tarayon Corbitt
Dale County, Alabama
10-Aug-95
Shot twice in the head and once in the chest with a .45 Glock handgun.

Mocha Celis
Buenos Aires, Argentina
18-Aug-95
Shot twice in the penis, and abandoned in the street.

Robert Gillade
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1-Sep-95
Murdered

Steven Wilson
Middletown, Delaware
Oct-95
Raped, hit in the head, and drowned by Lamont Harden

Quincy Favors Taylor
Atlanta, Georgia
11-Oct-95
Shot to death

Chanelle Pickett
Watertown, Massachusetts
20-Nov-95
Strangled by William Palmer. She also suffered a beating that left her face terribly bruised and bloody.

James Percy Rivers (aka Tatiana Rivers, Keymani Howard)
Oakland, California
30-Dec-95
Multiple stab wounds and a beating.

Logan Smith
Hoffman Estates, Illinois
22-Feb-96
Septic shock due to a punctured bladder.

Christian Paige
Chicago, Illinois
22-Mar-96
Brutally beaten about the head and ears, then strangled, stabbed deeply in her chest and breast area between 15 and 2 dozen times, and finally, burned.

Deanna Wilkinson
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
20-May-96
Shot in the back of the head with a .357 magnum filled with hollow-point bullets, by Marcello Palma

Shawn "Junior" Keegan
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
20-May-96
Shot in the back of the head by Marcello Palma

Rodney D. Neadeau
Minneapolis, Minnesota
31-May-96
Blows to the head and abdomen

Janice Ricks
Cleveland, Ohio
13-Jun-96
Shot once in the neck and once in the abdomen.

Keooudorn Phothisane
Minneapolis, Minnesota
20-Jul-96
Blunt force injuries to the neck and head. Body had been burned

Thomas Hall
Wahiawa, Hawaii
15-Aug-96
Beaten in the head with a brick by U.S. soldier Anthony Tyrone Biscoe.

Dion Webster
New York, New York
4-Nov-96
Knife wound to the head

Alan Fitzgerald Walker
Fayetteville, Arkansas
9-Nov-96
Beaten and strangled to death by Adam David Blackford and Yitzak Abba Marta

Unnamed transgendered person
Madrid, Spain
1997
Murdered

Vanessa (Barry) Lane
Snowtown, Australia
1997
Murdered, allegedly by Mark Haydon, Robert Wagner, and John Bunting.

Curdell James III
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
1997
Shot in the back by Robert Lee Davis Jr.

Toya Charlton
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
1997
Shot in the back by Robert Lee Davis Jr.

Lynn Montana
Washington, D.C.
1997
Burn wounds

Unnamed transvestite
Guatemala City, Guatemala
20-Feb-97
Shot

Robyn Brown (James Brown)
London, England
28-Feb-97
Multiple stab wounds

Martine Bohn
Mons, Belgium
22-Mar-97
Murdered

Gracie Detzer (James Detzer)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
28-May-97
Strangled and drowned in a bathtub by Steven Craig

Kevin Freeman
New York, New York
20-Jun-97
Skull split nearly in half

Marcela (Sergio Arias)
Rosario, Argentina
29-Jul-97
Stabbed

Stacey Estupinian
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Oct-97
Murdered

Maria "La Conchita" Palencia
Guatemala City, Guatemala
2-Oct-97
Shot repeatedly in the stomach

Robert H. Jones
New Castle, Delaware
15-Oct-97
Stabbed to death by Ronald Taltoan

Maurice E. Murray
St. Louis, Missouri
10-Nov-97
Shot several times

Yamile (Jorge) Lee
San Diego, California
4-Dec-97
Stabbed to death with a large butcher knife, allegedly by Luis Garces

Ali He'shun Forney
New York, New York
5-Dec-97
Shot

Vianna Faye Williams
Jersey City, New Jersey
24-Dec-97
Multiple stab wounds to back, neck, and chest

Tasha Dunn
Tampa, Florida
14-Feb-98
Bludgeoned to death

Jacqueline Julita Anderson
Portland, Oregon
24-Feb-98
Shot in the head with a shotgun by Eric Walter Running

Regina Haskins
New York, New York
4-Apr-98
Shot at least twice, once in the neck and once in the head.

Karla (José Alexis) Barrahona
El Salvador
5-May-98
Died from gunshot wounds to the throat and thorax received eight days prior.

Sigfrilda Shantall Pastor Arguelles
Catacamas, Honduras
15-May-98
Stabbed in the neck

"Tiny" (Robert Howard Gibson)
El Cajon, California
31-Jul-98
Multiple stab wounds, allegedly by Shawn Keith Wilson

Luana (Junior da Silva Lago)
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
4-Aug-98
Drowned

Fitzroy "Jamaica" Green
New York, New York
18-Aug-98
Stabbed multiple times by Eric Carolina

Monique Thomas (aka Rufus P. Thomas)
Dorchester, Massachusetts
11-Sep-98
Murdered, allegedly by George Stallings

Chanel Chandler
Clovis, California
20-Sep-98
Stabbed to death, allegedly by Christopher Joseph Lopez and a 16-year-old friend.

Rita Hester
Boston, Massachusetts
28-Nov-98
Multiple stab wounds

Lauryn Paige (Donald Scott Fuller)
Austin, Texas
9-Jan-99
Stabbed multiple times in the head and torso, allegedly by Gamaliel Mireles Coria. A cut on her throat measured 9 inches long and 3 inches wide.

Robert Eads
Atlanta, Georgia
17-Jan-99
Cancer

Steve Dwayne Garcia
Houston, Texas
6-Feb-99
Shot once in the shoulder

Chris Muzett (Eddie Matthews)
Detroit, Michigan
20-Feb-99
Strangled with a phone cord

Unknown man wearing women's clothing
Houston, Texas
25-Feb-99
Shot in the abdomen

Leslie Re'Geanne
Chicago, Illinois
24-Mar-99
Struck and killed by a car

Tracy Thompson (aka Tracy Turner, Billy Joe Turner)
Cordele, Georgia
30-Mar-99
Head wounds, most likely caused by a baseball bat.

Emmon Bodfish (aka Margaret Ingalls Bodfish)
Orinda, California
24-Jun-99
Bludgeoned to death with a blunt object

Pvt. Barry L. Winchell
Fort Campbell, Kentucky
5-Jul-99
Beaten to death, allegedly by Pvt. Calvin N. Glover

Barretta Williams
Chicago, Illinois
27-Jul-99
Shot 16 times, pistol whipped, tied up with speaker wire, and gagged with a sock taped into her mouth.

Carol Wright
Pitsmoor, Sheffield, England
30-Jul-99
Strangled

Kareem Washington
Passaic, New Jersey
29-Aug-99
Murdered

Chareka Keys
Cleveland, Ohio
27-Sep-99
Blunt trauma to the head

Sissy (Charles) Bolden
Savannah, Georgia
15-Oct-99
Murdered

Tacy Raino Ranta
Baltimore, Maryland
22-Nov-99
Shot one time in the chest

Unnamed Infant with Ambiguous Genitalia
Dallas, Texas
8-Dec-99
Blunt force trauma to the head, as well as strangulation, allegedly by the child's mother, Aruna Kavili.

Alina Marie Barragan
San Jose, California
15-Jan-00
Not yet specificed: allegedly strangled by Kozi Santino Scott.

Jill Seidel
Honolulu, Hawaii
3-Feb-00
Undetermined

Ihok (Hugo Yonathan)
Lenteng Agung, Jagakarsa, Indonesia
14-Feb-00
Eight stab wounds in the back, four in the abdomen and two in the neck.

Vanesa-Lorena Ledesma
Cordoba, Argentina
16-Feb-00
Cardiac Arrest

Christine Chappel
Lowestoft, Suffolk, England
2-Mar-00
Drowned

Michelle Lynne O'Hara
New York, New York
14-Mar-00
Suicide after being brutally beaten and raped

Stephanie Yazum (Frank Yazum)
Schenectady, New York
23-Mar-00
Throat slashed

Déjà (Dondre) Johnson
Miami, Florida
Apr-00
Shot

Tyra Henderson
Washington, D.C.
23-Apr-00
Bludgeoned to death

Carla Natasha Hunt
Suitland, Maryland
15-May-00
Single gunshot wound to the head

Astrid La Fontaine
Guatemala City, Guatemala
20-May-00
Shot

Amanda Milan
New York, New York
18-Jun-00
Throat slashed

Beverly Lineth
Guatemala City, Guatemala
5-Jul-00
Beaten to death

Julia Carrizales
Webster, Texas
21-Jul-00
Strangulation

Dayana (Jose Luis Nieves)
Carabobo, Nicaragua
29-Jul-00
Murdered by two men

Keith E. Jackson
Miami, Florida
27-Aug-00
Blunt Force Trauma

Ana Melisa Cortez
Nashville, Tennesse
15-Oct-00
Stabbed to death

"Walquiria" (aka "Walter")
San Salvador, El Salvador
19-Nov-00
Shot to death

Billy Jean Lavette
West Savannah, Georgia
20-Nov-00
Murdered via a wound to the back of the head.

James Jerome Mack
Buffalo, New York
21-Jan-01
Beaten with beer bottles, sexually assaulted with a broom handle, strangled with an electrical cord and then drowned in a bathtub. His body was later set on fire in a trash can behind a church

Brandi Houston
Houston, Texas
26-Jan-01
Murdered, allegedly by Richard Masterson

Victor Pachas
Paterson, New Jersey
25-Feb-01
Beaten, stabbed, slashed, and asphyxiated by Carlos Camacho

Francisco Javier Luna
Houston, Texas
4-Mar-01
Multiple gunshot wounds, including ones to the face, stomach, and shoulder.

Robert Martin
Ashburn, Georgia
3-Apr-01
Severly beaten

Antonio Johnson
Dallas, Texas
10-Apr-01
Shot

Fred Martinez, Jr. (aka Fredericka, F.C.)
Cortez, Colorado
16-Jun-01
Bludgeoned to the head.

Della Reese (Lester Childress)
Chattanooga, Tennessee
26-Jul-01
Multiple stab wounds

Willie Houston
Nashville, Tennessee
29-Jul-01
Shot, allegedly by Lewis Maynard Davidson III

Loni Okaruru
Washington County, Oregon
26-Aug-01
Blunt force trauma to the head.

Nicole Lee Anderson (Thomas Shrom)
Hopewell, New York
Sep-01
Bludgeoned with a claw hammer, by Randy Loomis

Joanne Lillecrapp
Adelaide, Australia
4-Nov-01
Murdered

Jamie (James) Jackson
Washington, D.C.
21-Nov-01
Beaten to death in her own doorway

Terrianne Summers
Jacksonville, Florida
12-Dec-01
Shot

Raymond Nonato
Taguatinga, Brazil
23-Dec-01
Machete wounds from Hermano Sabino Vieira

Michelle Paz
Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela
11-Jan-02
Shot four times

Bibi Barajas (Hugo Cesar Barajas)
Houston, Texas
26-Jan-02
Shot multiple times

Faye Urry (Fabian Paquette)
Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
5-Feb-02
Murdered by Dale William Eliason

Leonela Valero Parra
Zulia, Venezuela
8-Feb-02
Shot twice

Amy (Raymond) Soos
Phoenix, Arizona
16-Feb-02
Murdered

Unidentified Filipino transsexual
Kawasaki, Japan
26-Feb-02
Stabbed in the neck and chest

Luciana Dos Santos Oliveira Mazza
Miramare, Italy
28-Feb-02
Shot, by Giuseppe D'Agostino

Anjie Milano (Andy Rafael Milano)
Valencia, Venuezula
Mar-02
Murdered

Alejandro Ray Lucero
Phoenix, Arizona
3-Mar-02
Murdered

Antonia K.
Eastern Germany
23-Mar-02
Attacked and killed

Pilar (Vladimir) Ibáñez Carrasco
Rinconada, Chile
5-Apr-02
Murdered

Hector Arturo Diaz
El Paso, Texas
10-Apr-02
Shot in the back

Gary "Brazon" McMurtry
Clintonville, Ohio
17-May-02
Stabbed, allegedly by Michael Jennings

Unidentified transvestite
Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia
17-May-02
Beaten to death

Aretha "ReRe" Scott (Franklin Freeman)
Charlotte, North Carolina
7-Jun-02
Bled to death after being shot in the leg

Nguyen Bui Linh
Vinh City, Vietnam
15-Jul-02
Stabbed by Tran Quoc Dung and Nguyen Binh Hung

Raimundo Rocha Alves
Sorocaba, Brazil
18-Jul-02
Head wounds from a blunt weapon

Paola Matos
Brooklyn, New York
22-Jul-02
Strangled

Deasha Andrews
Jacksonville, Florida
8-Aug-02
Shot multiple times

Stephanie Thomas
Washington, D.C.
12-Aug-02
Shot multiple times

Ukea Davis
Washington, D.C.
12-Aug-02
Shot multiple times

Sidnei Geber Aguila
Sao Paulo, Brazil
1-Sep-02
Shot three times by a motorcyclist

Daniel Phillip "Danielle" Redding
Daytona Beach, Florida
7-Sep-02
Single gunshot wound to the head, allegedly by Jason Lee Starkey

Ontwon Curtis
Newport News, Virginia
13-Sep-02
Shot several times in the chest

Gwen Araujo
Newark, California
3-Oct-02
Beaten and strangled

Amanda Jofré Cerda
Chile
24-Nov-02
Murdered, allegedly by Winston Michelson del Canto

Chandini, aka Nazir
Bangalore, India
1-Dec-02
Burned to death

Ze Galhinha
Brazil
Dec-02
Shot to death, allegedly by a military police officer.

Fernanda (Boris Javier) Covarrubias
San Felipe, Chile
4-Dec-02
Mutilated

Tamyra Michaels
Highland Park, Michigan
14-Dec-02
Shot to death

Georgina Matehaere
Auckland, New Zealand
22-Dec-02
Beaten with a baseball bat, allegedly by Joe Tua "Bucket" Coleman.

Roberta Nizah Morris
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
24-Dec-02
Beaten with a crowbar

1ST AD SOLDIER KILLED, TWO WOUNDED BY IED 11/14/2003
SERVICE MEMBER DIES OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN AFGHANISTAN 11/14/2003
TWO SOLDIERS KILLED, THREE WOUNDED IN IED ATTACK 11/14/2003

Friday, November 14, 2003

Olympics set to OK transsexual athletesGay.com U.K.
Friday, November 14, 2003 / 04:05 PM


Athletes who have undergone sex reassignment are set to be eligible to compete in the Olympic Games for the first time.

Reuters reports that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is finalizing new rules, following a meeting of experts in Sweden last month.

The committee is expected to officially announce the new policy in the next few weeks.

Patrick Schamasch, medical director for the IOC, said transsexual athletes will be eligible for the Olympics once they have passed a certain amount of time after sex reassignment surgery. The exact length of the waiting period hasn't been determined.

"The trend is to have an ineligibility period. Then after certain conditions have been fulfilled, the athlete will be able to compete in his or her new sex," he added. Schamasch said officials would want to make sure any side effects of hormone therapy have worn off.

Schamasch said he didn't know whether there were any potential transsexual athletes in line to compete in next summer's Athens Olympics, but he said several international sports federations have asked the IOC for guidance.


Thursday, November 13, 2003

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

GENDER AND SPELIG

I recently askd sme flkZ (what correlation you see between"correct spelling and gender). here are some of the respns:


Kids take on great pressure, inner and outer, to spell correctly at bees, hear a bell ding, and win. To watch their performance is to see a wide variety of dynamic and unintelligible individual personality elements come out through on-the-spot competition for which they have gruelingly trained. The personality elements do not clearly correspond with their identification numerals, the placement they attain, nor all the expectations placed on them (including their own). Gender does not clearly correspond to anything, though certain fixated fictions of gender are highly codified, enforced, and deemed correct gender agreement. It is agreed that there is a correct way to spell that. Clarity is a construction, and so is this.

Ellen Redbird
writer / archaeopteryx / queer liquid

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Historically, in English at least, it seems clear that the establishment of a supposedly definitive OED and Webster's Dictionary created a level of institutional and cultural control over the variable ways in which people earlier spelled words. These dictionaries created both the idea that a word SHOULD have a single spelling and that the dictionary could tell you what that spelling was, although, simultaneously, the dictionaries did suggest at least something of the prior history of variable spellings.

On the one hand, there was some level of positive practical effect from this codification--communication could be made easier in some instances when there was some level of agreement about the nature of what communication looked like. But the other, intended, and deeply unfortunate result of this codification was that people who were less likely to "spell properly" (people who were in great measure those who didn't have access to the kind of education that told them what spelling should be, or who saw words in ways considered non-standard) could also be codified not simply as uneducated but also as stupid, etc. Since, historically, women were more likely to be denied an education, they were correspondingly less likely to be taught "proper" spelling and more likely to be labeled as stupid. Indeed, it was quite a vicious circle, since labeling them as stupid or incapable led to not educating them which led to more chances to label them, etc.

Today we live in an English language which assumes that words have only one spelling, despite the fact that people themselves don't always know the supposedly authoritative way to spell many words. Yet the idea of challenging dominant modes of spelling also has a long history, challenges highlighted especially in the Modernist era and after, although there are examples from many other areas and time periods as well.

Learning how to spell "correctly" indicates some degree of acceptance of institutional control over language. Not learning how to spell "correctly" can indicate resistance (more active or passive in some cases) to this control, but it doesn't necessarily indicate resistance. It could also indicate the fact that some people view the field of language differently, quite literally--most people with so-called "learning disorders" when it comes to writing are simply people who see the visual field of the page in any number of unexpected ways, although in a culture which demands normative language abilities, people who have such differences often suffer from a lack of opportunities--the pain caused by stigmatization of their differences is very real. But people who don't learn to spell "correctly" also include those who see themselves as not conforming as thoroughly as they would like to do.

Perhaps surprisingly, in my experience as a teacher, male students are much more likely to spell words "incorrectly" than female students. Leaving aside the question of so-called "learning disorders," (and here it would be interesting to know what percentage of people diagnosed with such "disorders" are male or female) it's tempting to theorize about why that's true. One might be tempted to say, for instance, that male students are more likely to achieve a sense of self-worth from defying their teachers, while female students are more likely to achieve self-worth by doing the things asked of them. Or one might be tempted to say that male students are more likely to see writing as a feminized activity at which it would be unmanly to excel, while women are more likely to find writing to be an area in which it is acceptable for them to do so. But both such distinctions are generalizations based on what is already anecdotal evidence, so I'm not going to make either of those points, although I bring them up because I imagine them as ones that others are likely to make. More importantly, though, I would suggest that while it is obviously crucial not to stigmatize non-normative spellers, it's equally essential not to see them in some easy sense as heroic rebels--not learning to spell as educational institutions would like can in some cases be done by people who feel impervious to (or at least uninterested in) the consequences, just as learning to spell that way can be indication of a heroic attempt to not feel threatened and inconsequential.

An interesting wrinkle worth considering here is that some non-normative spellings are more disruptive to the concept of normative spelling than others. For instance, a recent linguistics study that has been going around on the internet among interested parties suggests that changed consonants are much more damaging to normative understanding than changed vowels. According to the ideas in that study, if kari were to send me an "invatition"--two letters switched, then I myself at least would still know what she means. Were she to send me an "inligation"-- again, two letters switched--then I would be much more likely to assume some legal issue was at stake.

Another particularly disruptive type of non-normative spelling is the one in which a word, by being "misspelled," seems to be another word. The most amazing incident of this kind that I was ever involved in had to do with a student who had written the line "I was bored by the [ ] system." When I asked her what it was that bored her, it turned out she hadn't meant "bored"-- she'd meant "barred." As a poet, that pun is fascinating to me; as a student who felt like she had been unfairly kicked out of a program, the intriguing pun was of no interest to her--she wanted me to understand what had happened to her, and was frustrated that I still wasn't understanding.

As an editor in the area of avant garde literature, I've often found the boundary between a conscious misspelling and a typo to be quite blurry. My general rule of thumb is to think that if a piece contains numerous non-normative spellings, then they are all intentional, whereas one or two non-normative spellings in a piece are much more likely simply to be typos. In either case, it's crucial to query the writer, and I never know what's going to happen; sometimes it is a typo, sometimes I've missed their interest in a non-normative version of that word. In either case, as editor, it seems to me that authorial intention should be the final arbiter. But mistakes in this matter still happen to me; in the Telling It Slant essay collection that I edited, for instance, there are five typos that have been brought to my attention (all of them quite quickly!)--four were typos in which the word should have been corrected to a normative spelling, and one was a word that had been spelle
d non-normatively that had been edited to become normative, although I had no memory of making the change. It's quite possible, for instance, that I thought I'd added a letter by accident and then deleted it because I thought it was my own mistake that the letter was there in the first place.

Mark Wallace



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Your question mostly makes me wonder -- and marvel over -- how I've rarely thought about this linkage before....even as your question now reminds me that correct spelling is often used as a tool for a dominant group to affirm their dominance.  As if the judgment of "correct" is not subjective....and historical when we all know how history also is written, is articulated, to dominate...

Eileen Tabios


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Rekindling Bravery

Text submitted prior to grammar standardization process.

 

Repriorotize the finishing process: gendercheck all documents before released into the public arena imposing judgement of apitiude upon conciousness of blurred binary as a replacement to standard ingles; the standardized autonomy of communication has been the verdict of trials of discrepancy,

 

To be ìnaturalizedî into speech, to be ìnaturalizedî into gender: a double-speak of the utmost Orwellian type. Rather, a ìneutralizationî of influcuation and auditory formulation. Conformity of hand movements dedicated to key placement on a key board. The brain connectivity of location of the minutia, incremential conversation broken down into letters, by letter; the atomic compounds. Periodic tables aid in recognition of combination, as a dictionary.

 

The dependence on accuray, e.g. naturalization and neutralization to illuminate the subtle (a word I hardly communicate in the public arena without the aid of big brother disabling spell check) I usually spell suttle.

 

Granted the obvious connection between reguired standards and limitation are a corollary. There is similiairilty in indocurination. Bapitsm into gender and grammar follow a parrellel time contiumium. Devlopemnental stages of regiment resulting in socialization for capitaliaitic venture. The commidification of privacy and process. Functional standards for acceptance and insurance for social dynamic and illusive equillbrium; a pathology/nerousis of daily repetition. 

 

Spelling as a (dis)function. 

 

Here I have attemplterd to atpe nased on memenory as If somethjomh could resilt from me not neomg ayyemtibe to the leys, bur reaher inside the process a zen edperoemde, a linear wace ;l;enghrwen franrwed inside an itterance. I will contimire for a dhort time so as to dedlope reeseatch nbeased. I must relinquidh thos fdrive for accuracy, as spelling is a control mechaifm. The ficayional account or yje prokecyed pupperytay that an uaypr issiuluions oneself to have. There is truly no reilting in a conformed tyjoughr or recepir of text.

 

Text determined by spell check.

 

Here I have attempted to tape nosed on memento as If somethjomh could result from me not neigh eyetie to the leys, bur reamer inside the process a Zen edperoemde, a linear wake ;l;enghrwen fared inside an iterance. I will centimeter for a short time so as to elope research unbiased. I must relinquish thus drive for accuracy, as spelling is a control mechanism. The ficayional account or yes projected puppetry that a harpy issiuluions oneself to have. There is truly no retiling in a conformed tyjoughr or receipt of text.

 

And yet, the amount of power I forfit in typing without concentration on comphrehension is no different than that which I ìcorrect.î The standardization process provides comfort, communalism and univeristyality. All of the illusions of utopia, ultitarianism and facism. The methodology similar, the intent varied, but ultimately dependant on motivation.

 

The genderification, of what once was malleable en totale, also acts a steel frame work of productivity, commidifcation, sculpting, a repossessing, an external modification, a removal, publification. The sad lack of privacy, relinquished without a knowing-authorization. 

 

Deb (sic)a-Martorana

Identification: Catastrophic Calmness Wasting Energy on Function


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Tell me how to spell it and I will tell you how to write it/read it. Isn't that the definitive answer to social legibility?. The clearly defined categorical perversion?. Lee Edelman says you can read it, queerness or the social construction of a legilble gender/sign.? Or some such saying/reading. I say embrace the variants, gender/sigh. Thus one gets off more eloquently. With/"Out" standardization.


Julie Kizershot

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Hmm?well, the issue of ?correct spelling? is of some interest to me because I have a learning disability, which pretty much just affects my spelling and handwriting. I have always been a terrible speller and basically have no visual memory for symbols. The learning specialists who tested me throughout my childhood were always surprised at the odd narrative ways I created to remember visual/ spatial relationships. If an image doesn?t have meaning to me, there is no way I can remember it?

The type of learning disability I have is much more common in men, so it seems strange to me to associate ?correct spelling? with gender. Growing up, my messy handwriting and poor spelling always made me feel different from the stereotype of a girl. I always envied the more feminine handwriting of the other girls in school, and it was one of the ways I felt separate from them.

Despite the strange spellings that occur in my own drafts, I have to say, I am not a fan of invented spellings (except in pre-spell checked drafts.) Poetry is a marginal art form to start with and to defy the most basic convention of spelling keeps readers from reading the poem at all. There are other subtle and more subversive ways that poems can subvert conformist ways of thinking and ultimately these are much more interesting to me than playing with surface conventions.


Joanna Fuhrman, Poet and Teacher
Books: Ugh Ugh Ocean, Freud in Brooklyn (Hanging Loose Press)


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That which binds. That which is stapled by pronouns. That which trips me up
the visual cues playing havoc with synaptic messaging. That which sculpts
and narrows. That which cracks open, cavernous. That which sifts and sorts.
That which is encased. That asbestos wrapped. That like a cream puff and
tamarind. That like a puddle open before me and scentless I step into again
and again.

Sina Queyras
writer
http://www.ecwpress.com/books/slip.htm
http://www.prairiefire.mb.ca/reviews/queyras_s.html

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as a late entry:

An interesting angle to think about is that "tween girl" spelling that has crossed over to mainstream in things like "luv". Before the mainstreaming of a wide variety of hacker codes (letter substitution) and IM shorthand (lol, cya, brb), things like "ttyl", "bff", "kit" were very much "girl" gendered in my experience growing up. And I mean specifically "girl" not "women" with all the stereotypical baggage that is meant to entail. Think yearbook signing and friendship bracelets here.

And these were things one was to roll there eyes at as they got older. Now I think we still do the same, but the injection of IM and hackerspeak has somewhat degendered it and placed it into the general "whatever" neighborhood.

Don't know how much this ties directly into ideas of spelling... maybe it is more on the secret languages topic...

Jamie Gaughran-Perez

California Father Continues To Fight
for Son’s Freedom From Gender Discrimination

Date: 27-Oct-2003

PACIFICA, Cal. – The Pacifica School District board of trustees voted unanimously Oct. 8 to deny the $100,000 claim of a parent who says his son repeatedly suffered gender discrimination at the hands of fellow classmates, the Pacifica Tribune reported.

Mark Shaposhnikov says he has recorded incidences in which 33 students of Ingrid B. Lacy Middle School have harassed his son with epithets like “gay fashion model,” “fag,” and “girl.” Shaposhnikov says his son faces on ongoing taunting and assaults because he is a champion ballroom dancer.

Shaposhnikov had met repeatedly with school administers, but says that he has seen that little or no improvement in the taunting his son endures.

Shaposhnikov told the Tribune, “Now we go to court. They are in clear violation of state and federal laws. It doesn’t matter how many workshops they had, enforcement was important. I want to expose what’s going on here. They knew about it from the first week of school.”

Shaposhnikov said any punitive damages he may win will be donated to charity. Paul Smoot, Shaposhnikov’s attorney, told the Tribune that the case is similar to previous suit filed successfully against the school district, adding “You just destroy a kid’s self-esteem. That shouldn’t happen.”

1AD SOLDIER DIES FROM WOUNDS, ONE WOUNDED IN IED EXPLOSION 11/13/2003

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

a time to stand-in - presents


say standing
say staining in advance
say a thought in waiting
in a series of signals
a serious image
a work in progress
almost continues
or continually standing

chiseled with pretext
up down over-an-out
here today spot “x”
tomorrows not moving
replacing another for another
chiseled with pretext
for fast flung varnished vacuum
still inevitable guides and standards

through thought amplification
a deliverance
is something mentioned
to three times . . . sinking ***



*** emily dickinson

recently I was walking past one my favorite spots in SF, a protest wall of posters. I saw this wonderful selection of woodblock prints of emma goldman, john brown, fred hampton, augusto sandino, and dr. mane equi and others. all wonderful.. at the bottom was an email to justseeds. josh at justseeds sent me their uhl..... some are sold out... but please check it out ($3.00 each):

http://www.justseeds.org/posters/cphselection

@ Jonathan Mayhew' s- Bemsha Swing.

http://jonathanmayhew.blogspot.com/

mini review of my reading 11.10.03 - in wonderful st. louis, at the incredible city museum...

ONE SOLDIER KILLED, TWO WOUNDED IN IED ATTACK 11/12/2003
ONE 1 AD SOLDIER DIES, TWO WOUNDED IN IED ATTACK 11/12/2003

The New Brutalism Reading Series Presents:

kari edwards
&
Chris Nealon

Sunday, November 16th
7-9 PM
at 21 Grand
449 B 23rd St. Oakland
$4 cover for your thirsty maws

http://www.21grand.org




Tuesday, November 11, 2003

stammering keeps it course


it was sunday, a month of sundays, a day next to tomorrows tomorrow - a word submitted to a collage - with courage the great and powerful - death in my heart country western revival keeps playing . . . no no . . . keys to my door . . . I was grinding my teeth again, grinding them to lucky numbers for the state run lottery; tomorrow is a horde of tomorrows and I need to take my imitation-leather feeling across the street - each step - a butcher block mushroom cloud, a hammer-head shark, a fish dealer at the end of the day, vinegar instead of an emotional riff . . . no no . . . it is an emotion riff of rearranged things folded into an immense tableau. I wonder where the present went when I crush myself with my own insurgence; dont go, did you say louder still, theyre all like that - answer quickly your life depends on it. the bells begin a reminiscing - there are always bells or bullets when reminiscing. great moods and shiny rain coats - I polish disdain with a beggars smile - burning hot or freezing - always freezing. and nothing except the conquest for half a shelf-life - they all talk, absorbed in bare window barbecues - I prop myself up against an empty space, recede into mist. how calm - how the nets are spread - one day or the next or six months from now sitting in an armchair something will happen - somethings in the air - something to adjust the volume to . . .

ONE 18TH MP BRIGADE SOLDIER KILLED IN RPG ATTACK 11/10/2003

Monday, November 10, 2003

without getting over here -
I informed the best available evidence



the entire building tilted - a slot machine was giving birth, falling off the edge. doors and windows joining against me. two buildings park alone - abandoned - wine-soaked. it was six o-clock, I was on my knees making an offering of my back, and my arms . . . I even offered my buttons at an intersection. the telephone was ringing . . . . someone was singing, you’re dead, (relocation furniture), youre dead, (debate over rust), you’re dead. it was later (de-) than (re-) commissioned. I still had refuge in suggestions . . . bungled in the carcass of sex. my brain is shadow light vice in a million submerged ship wrecks, a crap table looking out over ranch style radiation. my vertigo, my zenith, my saran wrap. I pull the curtains and a shred of morality plays jealousy on a personal chastity refrain, or was that a plugged drain? write down for memory, with sympathetic interest, and pronounce the words; sliding glass door and four of spades.

Short Reviews of Books I like after Incomprehensible Message
by
Alan Sondheim


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I've been thinking about two books that fascinate me -

kari edwards, iduna, O Books, 2003
Nada Gordon & Gary Sullivan, Swoon, Granary, 2001

initial notes on the pda -

the two books - fieles within the virtual as well as delineations of
desire
intimacies formied by protocols within swoon first
in depth presence of digital community

the emotional flooding at the gates

kari in the midst of sea of concept and turmoil

ik k words graphically at crosspurposes

in g and s emotional flux

both Boons

bring daniesl raster - lebbeus woords - inti plau

Now onto it. Both books connect with virtual semantics; kari's overlays
are multitasking readwrites and interspersions; the references are rarely
to online per se; but underlie everything written; "'I have sex with open
impact cryptic numbers at play- / grounds, screaming out;'" [...]
"artificial arms and digital fault lines" - the fault line between
faultline -

While writing this the connection stuttering more than usual, quite more, I can't readwrite what I say -

In Swoon, the huge and mur-key communication protocols modes portend the bodies of the initiates to the extent that embarrassment ensues across the modalities.

I wanted to mention David Daniels - all three of the works have underlying rasters.

Swoon might be the most important poetics work written at the hinge of the millennium; emotion fluxes through the filters of communicative
strategies. There are numerous works dealing with online persona,
psychology, psychoanalysis; there are almost none in which the culture
manifests itself without description. Dibbell comes to mind slightly,
almost evanescent, but that's a story within a MOO; Swoon's narrative is
broken and open-ended.

The two of them fiercely query each other, there are moments quite clearly written for eternity & the conceivable tablet, there are others that slip out often in despair or old relationships fissure/ reinscribe themselves.

There is absolutely nothing like this except and to a paler extent what
millions are doing online right now or wish they were doing without such
ability to reflect or cohere.

kari's work is more reflective, almost the non-intimacy of language
gridding or obfuscations such as you might find in Dom Sylvester Houedard, but this is all arranged, arrayed. iduna writes through itself; unlike Swoon, there's no possibility of resolution, and the words chunk
themselves through in a manner similar to the border language surrounding page centers which resounds early Clark Coolidge but more relevant, the languaging occurring through online writing and interferences sidetracking and tending elsewhere.

David Daniels - look up the work online - you will find language gridding
carefully assembled through digital wording in yet another fashion -
someone on television tonight used the Etch-a-Sketch for sportsplayer
delineations - this is - this work is - simply brilliant, Daniels an
original biography and portraiture, you must locate it.

How to locate these through bookfinder, amazon, google, abe, depending on the publication degree and appearance.

I see all of these works as harbingers of new semantics troubling the
horizon, more than, say, the generative poetics or poetry which often
reproduces what has already been accomplished in the static sphere.

A book I do want to mention with no relation to what has gone before -

Danna Scott's Boxing, The Complete Guide to Training and Fitness. I know Dana and her techniques are brilliant. From the back cover: "A licensed amateur and professional cornerperson who has been training amateur fighters for several years, she has worked in various boxing venues throughout the country including Madison Square Garden and has been featured on Lifetime Television and MSG sports." If you want to
proactively learn about boxing, this book is it.

Still reading the official blender gamekit by Roosendaal and Wartmann, and strongly recommend this. As I mentioned before, it comes with ten games you can take apart, reassemble, etc. I've been using bits and pieces.

The Vimalakirti Sutra, translated as The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti, by
Robert A.F. Thurman. But is it holy? How does this term operate in
Buddhism?

And still with British romanticism, The Lake District, an anthology by
Norman Nicholson, and The Grasmere Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, edited by Pamela Woof. The latter's much more interesting than William's work, and the latter ties in psychogeography.

Anyway - perhaps sketching out a field here? which would be that of the
structured body, the protocoled body whose expressive and somatic domain involves semantics filtered by the virtual.

I could go on; I've been thinking about this as intensely as I can. The
boxing, Sutra, Words-worthy, are distractions. The farther afield...

"To create a fake user for an action, press SHIFT-F4."

I've failed you...



recent books read on my trip to St. Louis-

1. The Magic of Blood, Dagoberto Glib, Grove Press, 1993
2. Deer Head Nation, K. Silem Mohammad, Tougher Disguise, 2003
3. Opera - poems 1981-2002, Barry Schwabsky, Meritage Press, 2003
4. The Lost Lunar Baedeker Poems, Mina Loy, The Noon Day Press, 1999
5. Rouge Pulp, Dorothy Barresi, University Press, 2002

1. very good story telling, wonderful entry into class and ethnicity.. these are wonderful stories.

2. this is funny funny funny and an edge that would catch me.. best of all I got to hear K. Silem Mohammad perform some of the work and it was (scary-!!)

3. wonderful link to NY school, a wonderful sexy edge to all this work..

4. what can I say, I feel in love again. this is my second read, I was more and better ready... by the time at 30,000 ft. I got to APHORISMS ON FUTURISM... I had to keep my seat belt buckled... we should never never forget Mina Loy... never go back many times...

5. I was given this as a gift... gifty poet books sometimes scare me.. THIS was a true gift. edgy, radical. witty. I am thinking feminism meets whitman. from Poem for an Impeachment:

The goon, the thug,
the steadiness of our affections,
the Mall of America,
let us sing these song!
A strippers breast tasseled with silk of autumn corn
like a ripe, wrong belonging
let us sing those songs, too.....

good questions...


quick answer.. no; quick answer, we are not here; quick answer.. no; quick answer, the way out is the momentary revolution, face-to-face, tag you are it; quick answer, there is no answer, only questions; quick answer.. no; quick answer, stop being a body, be a cyborg, a body without organs; quick answer, reach escape velocity; quick answer, gender tape is all over the body, put on with super glue and stapled in for good measure; can you escape gender; quick answer, no-yes, no-yes; quick answer, how would you like you macmac'alike topday, this way or that, choice (a) or (a) or (a) or (a) or (a); quick answer.. no; quick answer; (and toto knew), you can never go home, home is where the objects settle; community is movements in action, the now of now; quick answer, can one take the tools of the master race or master tongue or master master major major and use use them in anthing but the new new or get abusd by it sexuality, which could have its moments, or become unrecognizable-.. in other words be schizophrenic; quick answer.. no; quick answer; I am of the air waves, virtual, vital and a good fuck on saturday on channel 4, but there is nothing equal to the flesh next to mine melting onto each other; quick answer. post-post and no a historical post-post, but a post-post with divergent unexpectant turns with endless turnes into a monadic life, with history bold holocaust as a guild map, quilding one through past past mine fields; quick answer, the coyote and trixter; quick answer; how deep do the talons of the commodity culture go and can you find an end point in the body...? quick answer; resistance is futile, you are already virtual, stuck in quantum glue...... quick answer.. no its already to late.

Sunday, November 09, 2003

getting caught up with the dead...

ONE 1ST AD SOLDIER KILLED, ONE WOUNDED IN IED ATTACK 11/9/2003
TWO 82D ABN DIV SOLDIERS KILLED, ONE WOUNDED IN IED ATTACK 11/8/2003
1 SOLDIER KILLED, 6 WOUNDED IN IED ATTACK 11/7/2003
1 SOLDIER KILLED, 2 WOUNDED IN IED ATTACK 11/7/2003
SIX DIE AFTER HELICOPTER INCIDENT NEAR TIKRIT 11/7/2003

what a gift, look what I found in my email box after my return from wonderful time in St. Louis... thank you Aaron, Rebecca, Jay, and Chris... but more later..


from/by: Brenda Iijima


POEMESQUE ALA CHATEAUBRIAND
 
The podium----bombs the spacious----for cities in question----Tuta aiquora silent----A useless beacon----marked by days of war----we are warring----that is right----we are in this cheating war----this includes everyone----the breeze----each color of our thieving----flecked here and there with the scars of ravishment----a symbol----a horrible prayer----Deliveries integral----idyll----preserving one's country's traditions----then qualified for action----animating the cold-blooded politician----fellow puppets----signed off----we see them in the mirror----that easy chairman----and his agent----our everyman and every----he would not have been----then again, false addresses----what he was if the Muse had not been----almost out of reach--enemies----another home----seals the letter----a false homestead----had she not been there---the great lives they lead----but contrived of a plan----towards no one----make due with a self----almost out of character----my sister's gentle discoveries----for every ploughman--the Chinese flowers----welling up inside----my empathy on a silver chain----I sacrifice the moors----we give slender blood--all of the people--immersed in suggestion----an army detection----the better are slaughtered----thus the flowers----thus our glowing foreheads----we brandish illustrious effigies----in a woeful attempt----in anyone's eyes----anyone's eyes----splendid multiples----endorsed by the administration----that gulf----like Bonaparte----confounding--the splintering----an abandonment----we must cry----we must cry out----the landing engendered----the implosion is imminent----atrophy is sorrow----for what was water----civilization.