Edie Windsor's life provided something rare: a visible, professional queer woman who lived a full life and died at old age of natural causes
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Too many people, especially Black trans people, have nobody they can look to and say, "this person lived a complete life I aspire to live."
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The options, it seems, and this is reinforced through media, are either to die tragically early, heroically early, or problematically late.
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Edie did none of those things. For that, she inspired and continues to inspire.
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