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FILTER RESULTS ►WATCH: Ebony.com Writer Takes Home GLAAD Award for CeCe McDonald Report
Ebony.com's Dr. Marc Lamont Hill wins a glaad award for asking, "Why Aren't We Fighting For CeCe McDonald?" read more
CeCe McDonald vs. Pussy Riot: Political Imprisonment and Perspective
Ed. note: This post is part of the second round of the Feministing “So You Think You Can Blog” contributor contest (background here). Stay tuned all week as our six finalists take turns turns covering the blog and giving us a sense of their personal contributor style. The winner of the contest and newest member [...]
Queerview Mirror: Free CeCe
While we're on the subject of freedom—or at least people will be celebrating the concept of it tomorrow July 4th—let me share a little bit about CeCe McDonald. I just learned about CeCe at Gay Pride two weeks ago, through photographer...Show More Summary
Could Data-Driven Technology Transform A Broken Criminal Justice System?
The criminal justice system in the United States is broken in more ways than one. Cece McDonald’s recent sentencing to 41 months in a men’s prison and evidence of the stark racial bias in New York City’s “stop-and-frisk” policy exemplify the criminal justice system’s institutionalized racism and transphobia. The system also facilitates violence within prisons, [...]
How CeCe McDonald’s Plight Exemplifies The Criminal Justice System’s Institutionalized Racism And Transphobia
This week, Ebony magazine’s Marc Lamont Hill asked, “Why aren’t we fighting for CeCe McDonald?” McDonald, a trans woman of color, was out with some friends when they were assaulted with racist and transphobic epithets (“nggers,” “faggots,” and “chicks with dicks”) by two white women and a man. One of the women escalated the confrontation [...]
Why Aren't We Fighting for CeCe McDonald?
Marc Lamont Hill says in a piece for Ebony that this case is just another example of how the justice system fails our transgender brothers and sisters. Last week, Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald, a 23-year-old Black transgender woman, was sentenced to 41 months in prison for second-degree manslaughter despite clear evidence of self-defense. Show More Summary
Lessons in intersectionality: Gender warrior Leslie Feinberg arrested while protesting CeCe McDonald’s incarceration
“My life has been a constant roller-coaster ride, with all its loops and deep dives. But I refuse to let these rides make me feel that I have to back away from my own pursuit of happiness.” – Cece “Honey Bea” McDonald “CeCe McDonald survived a fascist hate crime; now she’s sentenced as she struggles [...]
CeCe McDonald Prison Confinement Raises Question
CeCe McDonald, the transgender woman sentenced to 41 months in jail after pleading guilty to second-degree manslaughter in a violent attack against her, is being held in a male facility in Minnesota, including time in solitary confinement. read more
Cece McDonald And Other Transgender Women Regularly Kept In Solitary Confinement, ‘A Huge, Huge Cost For Protection’
Mara Keisling, the Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, appeared on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show with an update on Cece McDonald, the transgender woman who was recently sentenced to 41 months in a Minnesotan men’s prison. Harris-Perry reported that McDonald is only 1 of 10 transgender women housed in the Minnesota Department [...]
Gender's Role in CeCe McDonald's Imprisonment
Crishaun "CeCe" McDonald, the 24-year-old black transgender woman who recently pled guilty to second-degree manslaughter, will be incarcerated as a man at a Minnesota state prison. However, according to ColorLines' Akiba Solomon, it's not that simple. Show More Summary
Transgender Woman Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald Gets 42 Months In Male Prison For Stabbing Man To Death “Pent Up Anger”
Transgender Woman Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald Gets 42 Months In Male Prison For Stabbing Man To Death
Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald admitted Monday that an inner rage brewed long before an exchange of words that ended with the deadly stabbing of Dean
CeCe McDonald Sentenced to 41 Months in Jail for Surviving Transphobic and Racist Attack
CeCe McDonald will go to jail after agreeing to plead guilty to second-degree murder, although she maintains she acted in self-defense.
Trans Woman Sentenced To Three Years In Men’s Prison
When CeCe McDonald and a group of her black friends were accosted and physically attacked by several white individuals, including having a cocktail glass smashed in her face that cut through her cheek, she chose to defend herself. At the end of the fight, the white man was dead, and McDonald was arrested for stabbing [...]
Trans Woman Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald Sentenced To 41 Months For Slaying Attacker
Today, Minneapolis Judge Daniel Moreno sentenced Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald to 41 months in prison for stabbing to death a man she claims attacked her and her friends.
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Just when you thought CeCe McDonald’s case couldn’t become more wrought with injustice: she’s being incarcerated in a male prison. A gay HIV-positive man is suing a New Jersey hospital for denying him lifesaving treatment and visitation “for going against God’s will.” Thousands of women (and men) in Turkey protested yesterday in response to government [...]
The Case of CeCe McDonald: Murder—or Self-Defense Against a Hate Crime?
Around midnight on June 5, 2011, a 23-year-old African American transgender woman named Crishaun "CeCe" McDonald was walking with four friends past Schooner Tavern in Minneapolis. A group of at least four white people outside the bar...Show More Summary
Coya White Hat-Artichoker: Lessons in Solidarity
Leslie Feinberg stood up for native people so many years ago and showed me solidarity. I am writing today to ask you to show solidarity with CeCe McDonald and to pay attention to her trial.
Black Transgender Defendant Deserves Support
Kenyon Farrow argues in a piece for ColorLines that, the issue of innocence aside, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community must not abandon CeCe McDonald. This week CeCe McDonald, the young black transgender woman on trial for murdering a white man who’d attacked her and a group of friends, shocked many of her supporters. Show More Summary
Have you heard about CeCe McDonald?
Have you heard about CeCe McDonald? The trans woman was attacked outside a bar in Minneapolis. There were racial and sexual slurs. She pulled a pair of scissors on her attackers and one of them was fatally stabbed.Here’s an interview with Dean Spade, a legal scholar and founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, about [...]
CeCe McDonald pleads guilty to manslaughter
On June 5th of last year, there was a fight outside a bar in Minneapolis. Several people were involved, a few were injured, one was killed. Only one was arrested. The person who was killed was a straight white cisgender man, and the person who was arrested was a young transgender woman of colour. Around [...]
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