On Saturday, Nov. 20, El/La Para TransLatinas joined with our dear partners from Parivar Bay Area, Openhouse SF, and The LGBT Asylum Project at Manny’s in the Mission for Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR). Together, we honored the memory of our trans, intersex, and gender-diverse siblings whose lives were lost in acts of violence. As transgender, intersex, and gender-diverse immigrants from the Global South, we exist at the nexis of transphobia, xenophobia, racism, and sexism. Many of us came here to escape violence from our countries of origin, only to continue to be marginalized and victimized here in the U.S. Those who continue to exist in the Global South are living in fear and poverty, and are often erased with no proper records maintained of their identities, our cultural identities erased along with our gender identities. On TDoR, we spoke the names of our siblings whose lives were snatched from us because of this hate and violence. We cried. We shared food. We demanded justice for those who have passed, and equity for those of us who remain. We will not be erased. Photos: Niko Storment