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“See any problematic media coverage of the CeCe McDonald sentencing? Submit it at http://glaad.org/reportdefamation @Free_CeCe #FreeCeCe #trans”

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https://twitter.com/glaad/status/209783819291738112 via @Free_CeCe

ALSO:

Send Books to CeCe! (link)

CeCe would love to receive books while in prison. Click here to view CeCe’s book list.  CeCe is very interested in art, music, fashion, and pop culture. Please keep CeCe’s interests in mind when sending her reading material. Please note that all materials sent to CeCe must be paperback copies sent directly from the publisher. Click here for more information about the DOC’s mailing regulations. All materials can be sent to the following address:

Chrishaun McDonald
OID #238072
Minnesota Correctional Facility-St. Cloud
2305 Minnesota Boulevard S.E.
St. Cloud, MN 56304

the post on the tumblr about more ways to help (link)

[donations page direct link in case the link in that post does not work]

if you’re here from one of the other tags or something and you don’t know about her story yet:

• from the tumblr (link): “Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald is a young African American transgender woman who is charged with two counts of “second degree murder” after an incident that began when she was violently assaulted because of her gender and race.”
• “Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald Sentenced to 41 Months for Reduced Charge of Manslaughter” (link) [has talk of transmisogyny/racism/prison industrial complex]
• detailed background info from the wordpress blog (link) [WARNING: talk of transmisogynist/racist physical violence, abuse by police, and transmisogynist, racist and gay-bashing slurs]
• Reina Gossett [thespiritwas on tumblr] talks about CeCe McDonald’s case in this speech (link)