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Trigger Warning: Lesbiaphobic and misogynoiristic murder of minor Sakia Gunn was a 15 year old lesbian who was victim of a hate crime in 2003. Despite the national outcry for justice in other hate crime cases, Sakia’s case has gone largely under reported over the years. Sources: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/sakiagunnfilmproject?autoplay=1 https://www.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2013/05/remembering_the_murder_of_saki.html https://www.gaycitynews.com/rare-bias-indictment-in-sakia-gunn-murder/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sakia_Gunnhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8740918/sakia-gunn#view-photo=6333990 https://www.democracynow.org/2003/7/14/its_a_shame_that_you_havehttps://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/remembering-a-newark-hate-crime/ https://www.gaycitynews.com/sakia-gunn-memorialized/ http://www.newnownext.com/sakia-gunn-queer-black-intersectionality/10/2017/ https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/13/nyregion/teenage-girl-fatally-stabbed-at-a-bus-stop-in-newark.html The House Plant Junkie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehouseplantjunkie/ Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HouseplantJunkieShop Please support these Black podcasters, and their recent Black LGBT episodes: CrimexNoir and Handcuffed Podcast collab - “Case 23 - The Murders of Ukea Davis and Stephanie Thomas” https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/16-issa-collab-part-1-crime-noir-murders-ukea-davis/id1457812017?i=1000475037001 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/case-22-murders-ukea-davis-stephanie-thomas-w-handcuffed/id1458294745?i=1000475034542 Cognac & Conspiracies - “The Case of TeTe Gully” https://anchor.fm/t-w5/episodes/The-Case-of-TeTe-Gulley-efsab0 90s Crime Time - “They Were Robbed” https://www.90scrimetime.com/podcast/episode/4ce93298/they-were-robbed Bruh Issa Murder - Tony McDade & Bary BJ Brooks https://linktr.ee/Bruhissamurder