#28J “Today there are many of us, but many more are missing.”

Alma Fernández, activist and role model, writes a letter to her colleagues, those who are still here and those who are no longer, with her emotions running high, days before the historic sentence for the transvesticide of Diana Sacayán.

June 27, 2018

Argentine trans activist Alma Fernández wrote this poem to call for the third national march, “Stop the Transvesticide and Transfemicide,” on June 28th—International LGBTIQ+ Pride Day. There will be demonstrations in the cities of Rosario, Paraná, Santa Fe, San Luis, Salta, and Jujuy. In Buenos Aires, the meeting point will be at 6 PM in Plaza de Mayo. We are all crazy, but we are also winning, we are growing, finding love, we are embodying life again and again to make it more beautiful. Today there are many of us, but we are missing many more: those in prison, those in the streets fighting, those in hospitals, those who have disappeared, those who hold panels around the world, thinking up the most incredible theories (I hope someday poor trans women can read those theories), those who left and never returned, those we still don't know. I also want to write to them today, mainly because this reason is as urgent as caresses, as hugs. Those urgent hugs my mother gave me in the north when I was a child and she sent me to beg for bread and coins in the streets of Tucumán so we could live, as urgent as the encouragement my trans mother always gave me when no one would eat me in the street and I was hard. This same urgency is felt by the poverty that preys on my family name. This urgency of writing to you today is to propose, dear sisters: to break this daily loneliness and come together and embrace each other at least once a year and ask: that they stop killing us.

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