Comments on: Light a Candle for Angie

By: Jadey

Jadey — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:04:37 +0000

I didn’t think to mention this here (though in retrospect I should have), but I lit a candle for Angie on Facebook and posted the link to my feed.

By: CBrachyrhynchos

CBrachyrhynchos — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:31:18 +0000

I don’t have a blog, but bump.

By: A Candle for Angie Zapata « Natalia Antonova

A Candle for Angie Zapata « Natalia Antonova — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:10:20 +0000

[...] in the murder trial of Angie Zapata, who is believed to have been murdered simply for being trans, started yesterday. Please see more details at Questioning [...]

By: William

William — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:20:47 +0000

Oh god I take that back about the comments….

By: William

William — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:18:11 +0000

Ugg, you’d think that it would be pretty hard to be an asshole about a case like this, but you’d be wrong. One of the more socially “conservative”/batshit insane bloggers at the (usually very good) Volokh Conspiracy legal blog is basically making the case that Zapata was guilty of “Rape by deception.” Thankfully it seems like a lot of the commenters jumped down his throat, but still…what the fuck is wrong with people?

Link:
http://volokh.com/posts/1239643197.shtml

By: gogojojo

gogojojo — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:59:03 +0000

Thanks Cara! I thought it was a specific widget or something. I can do the html code for images with links. Lol.

By: jenny

jenny — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:46:57 +0000

Yikes :( I missed the posts about this before. That poor woman. :( :( People shouldn’t have to put up with this stuff; she was just trying to live her life. I’m glad its finally being tried as what it is, a hate crime.

I joined the facebook group.

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:29:35 +0000

I wish hate crimes laws actually did anything, even a little bit, to stem the kind of hatred and bigotry that ended Angie Zapata’s lives and the lives of so many other trans women. Instead they have the potential to make life more brutal and dangerous for far too many marginalized trans folks. Those problems always bear mentioning in this context too, even as we deplore hate-fueled killings and the cultural atmosphere that makes them possible. I’m glad people are also talking about education and memorializing and spreading the word.

By: Cara

Cara — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:07:32 +0000

Also, Butch Fatale, I will try to remember to move it up to the top of the page every day for the next several days.

By: Cara

Cara — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:06:12 +0000

Unfortunately, without encouraging people to hotlink images off of our server, which sounds like a bad idea to me considering the fact that we’re often having server problems, I unfortunately can’t give you a code to copy and paste.

I will, however, do my best to walk you through it:

1. Right click on the image to save it to your computer.

2. Upload the image to your blog. I think that in both wordpress and blogger, there is a little button when you go to write a post. Click it, and it will give you the instructions to upload the image to your blog.

3. Copy the code surrounding the image URL that your blogging platform gives you after uploading the image. The code should probably start with IMG SRC and end in .jpg (of course excluding the carrots. copy those, too.) i.e. IMG SRC=”http://imageurl.jpg”

4. Paste this image code into your sidebar.

5. In front of the IMG code, use A HREF code to create a link to the facebook page. Which will look like A HREF=”http://www.facebook.com/pages/Light-a-Candle-for-Angie-Zapata/55051188422?ref=mf” but with opening and closing carrots.

5. Close the A HREF tag at the end of the image tag. So after the closing carrot after .jpg, type /a with carrots surrounding it.

I am definitely not the world’s best explainer, nor am I particularly adept at HTML myself, but I hope that helped :/