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Transgender Day Of Remembrance

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I think this paper was arguing about the violence that is reinforced through Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) and its inability to look beyond gender identity as the sole contributor for violence afflicted on transgender individuals. This paper is also arguing beyond the issues of sexism, racism, and classism TDOR engages in total erasure of those who experienced violence by ignoring intersecting identities through memorialization. I have highlighted in yellow all of the sections/sentences that I though were particularly strong at setting a tone for the paper, as well as getting your point across clearly and powerfully. You do this on page 1 and 2 by discussing the unmarked barriers of systems of power and their effect on transgender people,

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