Elisa Shupe, Lia Smith, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, and so many more names are worth remembering today.
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day when someone like me—who reports on transgender news every day—cannot help but stop and think. In this work, I am constantly speaking with transgender people who are harmed by the systems I cover. Too often, some of those people do not make it out alive.
I wish I could show certain politicians the weekly suicide notes that reach my inbox, or the death threats that so many of us in this space receive. I wish they would care. I can’t make anyone care, but I hold onto the hope that those of you who read my work can help make this world more bearable by being the ones who do.
On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, I want to talk about the people who have been crushed by these systems and by the politics and hate that have targeted transgender people in recent years. I want to write their names again so they do not fade into the static that tries to swallow all of us in this atmosphere of vitriol and abuse. I want to name those in power who seek to drown us, and I want to hope for something better.
So something I’ve gotten more into recently is retro homebrew, which is basically games and romhacks made for older systems. In the process of looking for homebrew stuff I learned about Rani Baker, a homebrew creator who passed away in 2023.
Here you can find her homebrew games like Graveyard Dude and also cool rom hacks she made like Guevara War, which restores Guerrilla War to its original pro Cuban Revolution form.
I didn’t know her at all of course, but learning about this made me immensely sad and I’ve been working on patching these romhacks to be able to play them.
Anyways, you should go check the page out if you’re into that sort of thing.
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The People I Remember On This Trans Day Of Remembrance
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-people-i-remember-on-this-transcross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/8843
So something I’ve gotten more into recently is retro homebrew, which is basically games and romhacks made for older systems. In the process of looking for homebrew stuff I learned about Rani Baker, a homebrew creator who passed away in 2023.
This is her itch.io page: https://destroyed4com4t.itch.io/
Here you can find her homebrew games like Graveyard Dude and also cool rom hacks she made like Guevara War, which restores Guerrilla War to its original pro Cuban Revolution form.
I didn’t know her at all of course, but learning about this made me immensely sad and I’ve been working on patching these romhacks to be able to play them.
Anyways, you should go check the page out if you’re into that sort of thing.