To post a list of Vigils

[discobrain]

This is a thread on twitter for the current list of vigils for the murdered girl Brianna Ghey, around the country.

Listed here

Rest in power, precious girl.

I was just about to say this. Young black teenagers are stabbed on a miserably regular basis. Pious vigil advertising doesn’t seem to crop up on MN after that.

it’s almost like there’s an agenda. Or more than one.

I live in Holly Newton's town. I didn't attend the remembrance event for her as I didn't personally know her and for me, it felt inappropriate to be a bystander. There were no 'vigils' up and down the country for her despite the circumstances of her death (M on F violence) potentially affecting 51% of the population. Of course this is being politicised.

Another one who sadly agrees. It will be interesting to see who turns up.

I hope the vigils bring some comfort to Brianna’s family, but I have a feeling they would prefer not to have their grief hijacked .

@Discobrain I have seen the ever growing list of vigils. I’m Manchester and unfortunately can’t attend due to work commitments, but she will be in my thoughts. A well known outspoken Twitter transphobe has already said he will be going to disrupt it 😥

The one where the police said almost immediately that they weren't looking for anyone else?

No mass vigils there was there?

i have a feeling they will want to know why their girl was targeted.

@WaityWTF ‘Given it’s a possible hate crime it should be a political agenda. A hate crime up by the likes of JK Rowling and Co.’ Didn’t scroll back through the full thread but this one jumped out as an example. Great to see that was your only take away from my post 👍🏻

Either post a screenshot or I'm going to say you're lying.

As requested

This. And the people who are accusing the OP of having an agenda are actually the ones with the agenda.

you are the one who has drawn that comparison rather clumsily

By what? Mentioning that there’s a massive paper trail on her being bullied for literally years?

Even the police official line is that they are investigating all lines, including possible hate crime based on her trans status.

Meanwhile, over on FWR posters are suddenly a-ok with “they” pronouns so they can avoid using she, and whistling nonchalantly whilst forgetting all the times they’ve called parents of trans children child abusers, and trans children deluded liars.

And here they are telling other posters it’s not OK to share where to attend a vigil for her.

Take a look at yourselves.

I don’t know why she was murdered. No one does right now except the ones who killed her.

But back off with telling trans allies and non GC posters to stop talking about her. GC posters would have used her for political point scoring any day of the week, like any trans girl in school, college, or just living their life. You don’t get to dictate how other people pay respects to her right now.

I don’t know who this guy is but he hasn’t said he will be disrupting the vigil? He said the last time he tweeted about attending a vigil he was arrested. Do you know anything about the previous circumstances he is describing?

I'm not sure the Sarah Everard vigil is a good example since certain individuals used it as a basis to position themselves as activists, to build a career and get a book deal.

I hope the Brianna vigils pass safely. Some of the posts on here point to people having a very specific, disruptive, anti-women agenda that will keep lots of people away. But hopefully the organisers will be able to weed them and their inflammatory signs out. They have no place at a vigil and some (on Twitter) are veering very close to prejudicing any future case.

I think anything that highlights the horror of teen-on-teen knife crime is a positive. Maybe we should organise vigils for all of them. The sheer volume might prompt the police and politicians to act.

Dis you know her @discobrain ?

*did

Just in London last year.
It's an epidemic.
Unfortunately, only a select few get heavily featured in the media.

www.londonworld.com/news/crime/london-teenage-homicides-2022-names-faces-every-young-person-killed-capital-this-year-3804019

You drew the comparison with Sarah Everard very clumsily. That was very clearly said in my post. You’ve gone off on a frolic of your own there extrapolating into issues which are nothing to do with any of my posts and without addressing the substance of them. You’ve made sweeping statements that you can’t back up. Maybe take time to take a look at yourself before castigating all and sundry.

Yes he was arrested for
disrupting the Trans Vigil of Remembrance at last year’s Sparkle event in Manchester

I follow and post on vigil threads on Mnet. And I attended the vigils.💙

You have reading comprehension problems @Coldilox

What did he do to disrupt it? I don’t know anything about it.

I have a feeling they would prefer not to have their grief hijacked .

Unless you actually know them, you have no clue, and projecting your political agenda onto their imagined preferences is crass in the extreme.

Most vigils tend to be politicised. It’s a way of showing you have strong feelings about the circumstances under which a person has died. I considered attending one in London for Sarah Everard because I have strong feelings about how unsafe women and girls are, and if I’d known about any for Olly Stephens, I might also have considered as the parent of a vulnerable child with ASD.

I find Brianna’s death so sad and frightening because it’s very likely she was killed for being different. A different kind of “different” to my child, but it still highlights the inability of a section of society to be able to tolerate any deviation from a very narrow set of social norms. That said, it should be possible to condemn this lack of tolerance while still respecting the concerns of women about trans people in women’s sports, prisons etc, and it’s disappointing to see the issues conflated.

@Eyerollcentral is it that hard for you to Google and do your own research on this rather than disrupt the thread?

Thanks OP for providing the vigil list. I didn't realise there was a vigil close to me and I would like to pay my respects

Rest in Peace Brianna. I hope the family find solace in knowing so many people have been affected by your death. I can't imagine what your parents are going through - as a forum of mostly mother's, I am sure that we all feel deeply saddened by the loss of a young life in such horrific circumstances.