Is this a contradiction?

I've been crazy insane busy at work this week. I keep thinking "I just want it to be end-of-day Thursday already", but also, "I need twice as many hours between now and Thursday."

Transgender Day of Remembrance

I remember.

I find myself particularly thinking about Duanna Johnson, "mysteriously" shot to death just a few weeks ago.

Edit: Here's Body Impolitic on Duanna Johnson.

More on Transgender Day of Remembrance

Patrick Murphy - Fedra - Adolphus Simmons - Ashley Sweeney
Shanesha Stewart - Lawrence King - Cameron McWilliams
Simmie Williams, Jr - Luna - Felicia Melton-Smyth - Ebony Whitaker
Rosa Pazos - Angie Zapata - Samantha Rangel Brandau - Ruby Molina
Aimee Wilcoxson - Duanna Johnson - Dilek Ince - Teish Cannon - Ali
...and those whose names we'll never know...

Thought for the Day

Listen, I know marriage is important, but it is not the only issue, here, okay? Because, per the studies even HRC cites, as a trans woman I have a 1 in 12 chance of being murdered. 1 in 12. To put that in perspective, as a member of the general population I have an approximately 1 in 100 chance of dying in a car crash. I am almost ten times likelier to die of murder than a car crash! How many people do you know who've been in traffic accidents? How many of you know someone who's lost someone to a car wreck? Because they're extraordinarily common. And they're accidents. Murder is not. A population ten times likelier to be victim to violent crime as the general population, with a more than fifty percent sexual assault rate and a 1 in 12 chance of being murdered, is not an accident. It is a pattern. It is an epidemic. It is an all-out war. And marriage won't protect us from that. Neither will cocktail-party fundraisers.

— "the quick and the dead"

Ponder-y Stuff

This post on Feministing poses ten question that the author suggests she's still sorting out. This one grabbed my attention:

When do I focus on being right and when do I focus on being effective?

I can't summarize all the reasons why this question is particularly resonant with me, but it is, and I have the ponder.