Trans Day of Remembrance 2023
Thank you for your interest in our 2023 Transgender Day of Remembrance event! On this page, you will find the schedule for the event, locations and directions, as well as Zoom information for Kate Bornstein's virtual workshop.
Event Schedule:
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Community Collective Learning and Conversation with Kate Bornstein - Trans Icon, Author, and Performance Artist
Virtual on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95938523423?pwd=a3hGK2dSZGorelRkWmNldGZOMDZBZz09
In-person watch party in room BE1110, in the Broadway Edison building on Central campus (1701 Broadway)
3:30pm - 4:00 pm
We will move to the Atrium on Central campus, where attendees will get a chance to learn more about the stories of trans and gender non-conforming community members lost to violence over the past year. Thank you to Seattle Central's Queer/Trans Cooperative student organization for researching and assembling the displays!
4:00pm - 7:00pm
Candlelight vigil and name reading.
Mateo Acuña (he/him), 2023-24 Seattle Youth Poet Laureate and incoming 2024-26 Auburn Poet Laureate, will share his poetry to bring us together as a community. Afterwards, we will hold an open mic, for any attendees who'd like to share their thoughts and stories. At sundown, we will being reading the names of trans individuals we've lost in the past year.
Trans Day of Remembrance: Storytelling
As part of this event, our Queer/Trans Cooperative has created a series of displays telling the stories of a handful of trans and gender non-conforming individuals lost to violence this year. This is an effort to humanize their lives and deaths, beyond the statistics of how many have died and the violent ways they were taken from us. We'd love for the community to join us in our mourning, so please engage with the displays and help us hold these stories, now on the verge of being lost. Displays are set up at each of the three Seattle Colleges campuses - check below for specific location information.
The Grove at North Seattle College
The Atrium at Seattle Central College
1701 Broadway
Seattle, WA
98122
The Library at South Seattle College
6000 16th Avenue SW
Seattle, WA
98106
Trans Day of Remembrance has two main goals. One is for the transgender and gender non-conforming community to grieve together, for our family members, friends, loved ones, and comrades who have been taken from us by transphobic violence. Traditionally, trans communities will gather and read out the names of each year's deceased, to remember them collectively and ensure they are more than just statistics.
We also use this day to commit ourselves to combating transphobia, until the list of the deceased we read each year shortens and someday disappears entirely. At the Seattle Colleges this year, for example, Kate Bornstein will share both information about how to interact respectfully with and support transgender communities, and her own experiences of being trans and living in a world hostile to gender nonconformity.