edit: please check the notes for more information, the university of washington is hosting an anti-trans event DIRECTLY AFTER this happened. the university is complicit.
edit 2 (5/14/2026): a suspect has turned himself in [link to article] and the TPUSA event was cancelled due to (sigh) "safety concerns" about "antifa" [2nd link to article]. thank you to everyone who has been putting in effort to do image IDs and keeping the post up-to-date, i deeply appreciate it.
edit 3 (5/14/2026): she has been identified [3rd link to article]. her name is juniper blessing, and she was an atmospheric and earth sciences major. there is an on-campus event for those in the area at UW to grieve her.
i'm not really seeing anyone on here talking about it unfortunately, but a 19 year old trans woman, who has now been identified as juniper blessing, was recently (may 10th 2026) stabbed to death in seattle. she has not been publicly identified by name yet.
please read the article: anyone with information should call 206-233-5000 & you can tip anonymously.
update: the suspect has, as of may 14th 2026, turned himself in and is being held on 10 million bail.
Caldwell’s boyfriend, 38-year-old Jonathan Fernandez, has been charged with murder.
another Black woman lost to intimate partner violence. another Black woman lost to transfemicide. Black trans women are some of the most visible among us, statistically face the highest rates of violence, and are still at the bedrock of every trans community, holding up half the sky. Black trans women deserve to be loved out loud and uplifted and appreciated while they're still here.
rest in heavenly peace and pride and power Eryka. i know she's being welcomed with open arms and so much love by her late mother. but Eryka should still be here.
if anyone is able, please donate to or share around her family's fundraiser, they are raising money for the funeral, travel to NY to identify and claim Eryka, as well as transportation of her back home to Kentucky.
My family is asking for help in the unexpected loss of my cousin, Eryka Caldw… Loretta Worthy needs your support for Bringing Eryka Home for
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She can no longer afford fees to attend Al-Azhar University where she was pursuing a degree in engineering. She is enduring constant trauma. Just yesterday, Israeli occupation targeted a place just a few meters away, and saw the body of a pregnant woman who had just been brutally murdered. Who gets to access education? She is brilliant and she is not allowed to flourish because ethno-nationalists have decided nothing a Palestinian woman could ever accomplish is worth more than their own power.
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I don’t think the men I go to school with and work with would understand why the murder of Amber Czech is hitting me as hard as it is. I never knew her but we were the same age and both working in trades, dealing with the bs that comes from being in a male dominated industry.
Her murder made me think about something I hadn’t before. I’ve known since I decided to go into the automotive industry that I would face discrimination and possibly harassment from my male peers but I had never thought about the possibility of being murdered at work by a man twice my age because he simply doesn’t like me. She probably hadn’t thought about that either.
It’s already been a week since she was bludgeoned to death by a disgusting coward of a man and yet almost no one is hearing about it. The first video I saw about it was literally yesterday and it was someone talking about how little attention her case is getting. It’s bullshit. She will never see her 21st birthday nor any milestones she had yet to reach because a man didn’t like her.
Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America.
“14,445 and Counting” is the new @atavist story by Christa Hillstrom. It’s about a nurse, Dawn Wilcox, who created Women Count USA, a femicide database that tracks the number of women killed by men in America.
What would it take for the country to see femicide as an endemic threat to women? Maybe comprehensive data was the starting point. But how to account for every woman in the country murdered by a man? Lucchesi knew someone trying to answer that very question. She told me: You should meet this school nurse in Texas. She was talking about Dawn Wilcox.
RIP Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas. They were recently murdered in a hit-and-run committed by a Right-Wing extremist that was infuriated at their criticism of Charlie Kirk.
