This week is Transgender Awareness Week. The week is a chance to uplift the voices of transgender people and raise awareness of their hardships and accomplishments. This week leads up to the Trans Day of Remembrance.
“The Trans Day of Remembrance is an annual vigil honoring and remembering the countless lives of Black and Brown trans women lost across this country this year. This year alone, 46 trans people, primarily Black and Latina trans women, have been murdered by cisgender individuals simply for being trans. It is beyond time that this ends and that we build a society in which all Black lives matter. Join us as we grieve and as we celebrate the beauty and power of trans people,” said Dr. Alithia Zamantakis, director of the Pride Center.
Shippensburg University will observed Trans Day of Remembrance on Saturday 20 from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. on the Quad. Please join and pay respects to those lost.
In honor of this day, I would like to share a poem I wrote.
The Moon is Trans
The moon is trans
In French she is La Lune
The wisest of all the stars
Pulling the sun along her wake
She watches as beast devours man
To become man when day should break
She is the sister of reason
Laughing into the howling night.
In German he is Der Mond
Whispering love to the world below
The brother of lyrical form
He brings the tides of futures
Oh, Mond, tell us the morning
Sun will shine in
Brilliant, sweltering hues.
In Spanish she is La Luna
The rising mother of the night
Bearing witness to man’s delight
Our pleasure, pain
The crime, the malice, the mall
Refrain between
Light and light.
In English he is Moon
The father of bards
Who seduces
With gentle smile
And kindling words
Loving the world before
The sun can take his place
And blind his love
With her dazzling gaze.
The moon is trans.
