Victim of Gendered Violence Archives

Brittany Stergis

A transgender woman who was killed in 2013.

Betty Skinner

Transgender woman killed in 2013

Rita Hester

The origins of Transgender Day of Remembrance can be traced to the killing of Rita Hester on November 28, 1998.

Ce Ce Acoff

A transgender woman who was killed when an intimate partner discovered that she was transgender and stabbed her in 2013

María

Enslaved woman in Spanish-controlled Philippine Islands killed because she refused a man’s advances

Norma Jean Serena

Serena, a Native American woman, filed a civil lawsuit in 1974 seeking damages for violations of her constitutional rights to procreate and bear children

Corinna Hinton

Corinna Hinton was an enslaved woman who bore several children with the Richmond slave trader Silas Omohundro and helped him run his business.

Grace Sherwood

Grace Sherwood was the defendant in colonial Virginia‘s most notorious witch trial, which took place in Princess Anne County in 1706.

Lucy Burwell is best known for rejecting the fervent and sometimes menacing courtship of Governor Sir Francis Nicholson, contributing to a petition against Nicholson and Queen Anne ultimately removing him from office.

Sally Hemings

Sally Hemings was an enslaved house servant owned by Thomas Jefferson, who is believed to have fathered at least six of Hemings’s children.