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Mourning Our Dead, Demanding Our Lives |
 | | People often know vaguely of the ongoing reality of disappearance, enough to generate and maintain fear and submission, but clearly documenting or explaining exactly what was happening usually only became possible following military rule. |
 | | As Avery Gordan explains in Ghostly Matters, disappearance is not as simple as murder, for the uncertainty of the fate of the disappeared leaves those remaining in a state of constant apprehension and fear, robbed of safety, certainty or clarity. |
 | | The murders of trans people, each and every person murdered for their gender expression, leaves a traumatic scar on the world that goes far deeper then a circle of friends and families. |
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