Tag: missing

In MemoriamRacial JusticeTrans

Trans Cherokee woman Aubrey Dameron, 25, was missing for six years. Her remains were found, but there are few answers.

September 6, 2025 by

“It’s so scary that that can just happen to you,” Love said. “You can just disappear off the face of the earth for years and nobody can find you. And it’s so wrong.” Aubrey Dameron, a young Cherokee transgender woman left her family’s house in Grove. Oklahoma on March 9, 2019. She was never seen […]

In MemoriamTrans

The Researchers: A Closer Look at the Search for Missing and Murdered Trans and Queer People

July 16, 2024 by

Since spring 2013, I have been writing memorials for trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming (TGNC) neighbors whose lives have been lost to violence. The relentless persistence of this violence is akin to a terror campaign. While I’ve frequently shared the story of how I started doing this work, I’ve less often talked about “the work” […]