When Does it End ? Someone else has been murdered. I've been crying since late last night when I first heard about it through this morning. It's the latest in what seems to be a spree of murders lately. But instead of speaking out against these murders, people (to what seems to be a large extent) have been eerily quiet. It's starting to scare the heck outta me. The silence must end. I have no idea how this can be done, I just know it must. I can handle crying, but I can't handle crying in silence. It's just stomach-wretchingly wrong. I'm completely drained. And yet, I keep crying. I don't know what to say. Yes I do. Here's a poem I wrote. It doesn't give any answers, but it does sorta say some of what I feel. Mother by Heather Brown Mother Did you feel me falling Bleeding Into the warm, dark ground? Mother can you hear me calling? Babies Keep on falling down. Mother Can you hear me crying Gasping As I die in pain? Mother Why do we keep on falling? Tell me I didn't die in vain. ---original message--- Date: Sun, Feb 7, 1999 3:47 PM EDT From: Gwen Smith According to the Houston Chronicle, we may have lost yet another trans perceived individual to the hand of violence and prejudice. Houston police are looking at the death of Steve Dwayne Garcia as possibly being a hate crime, and are looking into the possibilty of it being a "gay-bashing" because, as reported, "the victim appeared to be wearing female clothing and had shoulder-length auburn hair." Garcia's body was discovered about 5:45 a.m., on Saturday, February the 6th, 1999, and was shot once in the shoulder. Garcia was wearing black pants, a black shirt, a colored vest, women's jewelry and makeup. "Because of the way he was dressed, there is a possibility it may be a gay-bashing, but we don't know that yet for sure," Said Houston homocide investigator Todd Miller. I doubt I need to mention that this makes seven documented trans murders since August of last year, that my sleep-addled mind could recall and pull off the "Remembering Our Dead" site. Luana (Junior da Silva Lago) - August 4, 1998 Fitzroy Green - August 22, 1998 Monique Thomas - September 11, 1998 (estimated) Chanel Chandler - September 20, 1998 Rita Hester - November 28, 1998 Lauryn Paige - January 9, 1999 Steve Dwayne Garcia - February 6, 1999 Remembering Our Dead - http://www.gender.org/remember
	Heather Brown, February 1999
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