I’m sorry you felt you had reached a dead end
Im sorry you had it rough
I wish you’d stuck around, if only for another year
You would’ve been 18 and you would’ve seen the world change like you wanted
I’m sorry you felt you had to die to make things right
But thank you, because people say it is better now
For you, and only you, I painted my nails pink
Jan 6 is paint it pink for Leelah. As in, paint your ring fingernail pink for Leelah Alcorn, a 17 yo trans girl who killed herself in 2014. She came out at 14, when she learned what transgender meant and was abused by her parents since then. She felt she had nothing to do but **** herself. In her suicide note, she wanted her death to mean something, and for trans people to one day be treated as the normal people we are. Her parents never accepted her as their daughter, not in life nor in death. She would have been 23 this year.