We often see art imitate life on the screen but there are a few rare times we see actual events of the past that play out on that are still happening today. Very few shows push the boundaries but they take the leap to put out a universal message that needs to be known not just by one type of person or people but by all people. One of the shows on TV that does this is POSE on FX.

In a recent episode of POSE, one of the main characters, Candy Ferocity played by Angelica Ross, had an episode deadicated to her. She was murdered in a motel room by one of her Jons during an sexual encounter. She had been beaten to death and she was the 11th trabs woman to die that year in New York in 1990 and it was only May. They give her a funeral and memorial service, something that most people in the trans community don't get to have. Either no one claims their body or the people in their life aren't able to afford the costs. The erie thing about it is that these events are still happening today.

It's 2019 and we are still seeing this violence against trans women happen. But we never see these women get justice and people just ignore it as another story in the paper. Let's state the obvious, we see the difference of how people respond to what kind of people appear as a missing person.

If a white girl was missing or murder, a nation wide search for them and/or their attacker. The get the group search and the headlines on the news with local police spend weeks searching for them. People of color and trans women only get a missing person flyer on a bulliten board. That section of the community, whether black or Latino, that go to bat for equal rights and treatment for people of color remain silent when the death of a trans gender woman or man occurs.

Every life should matter. The T should matter in LGBTQIA and in society. We can't stay quiet on this anymore and too many people are dying for it to stay that way. Every Candy's life should matter. People of the LGBTQcommunity and the cis gender community should be fighting for them because they are all our sisters and their lives should matter.