It was this time last year that I was having coffee and scrolling through my news feed to stumble upon my friend Jenny’s post. I had seen her earlier in the week. We both cried and talked about how awful things were. She wasn’t OK. I knew that. I also wasn’t OK, but when we chatted on the phone later in the week, she seemed better. I was surprised, then, to see what appeared to be a suicide note on FB and every part of me hoped it was an ask for help. I ran to her apartment as fast as I could--still in my PJs. She wasn’t there, but who later showed up later were a dozen loved ones of hers across the country (quite literally) who I connected with that day in an effort to find her and since then I have remained in close touch with many of them. In her passing, this is one of the vast gifts she has left. She told us the “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy-it is a killer.” She deserves to be here taking up every bit of space that she can. I said this as I had the honor of co-presenting (with a dear friend who wrote and recited the most gut-wrenching and beautiful poetry) the LGBT Resource Center Social Justice Award, granted posthumously to Jenny. She should have gotten this years ago, when she was alive. This world has to do better by people like Jenny because she and all marginalized folks deserve to be out here living their best lives. I can respect that she now is, in her own way, under a killer system, but I hope her legacy can be that of persistent resistance, love, and liberation. Because that’s what she was about. She fought because she loved all marginalized folks. Because Jenny...aka Lovely...she loved herself, too. She loved herself despite a world that didn’t love her back, but I see y’all who did and I love you, too. So here’s to that legacy of love, resistance, liberation, and celebration and some of my favorite photos of her doing just that: hiking, Halloween, dancing together, the Ithaca BLM rally together, and (of course) the photo she wanted to us to use in the event of her untimely demise by fascists. #SayHerName #JennyKeys #Lovely #ForTheLoveOfLovely #WhoWillCryForTheLittleBlackGirl #ICryForHerEveryDay #NowItIsTimeToWork #ResistanceIsLove