I remember being in undergrad when the rash of queer youth suicides happened in the national media. It is (and was) especially interesting to me to notice the bodies, identities and possibilities that get shared in some of the most watched and read media. I always hope that campaigns for trans women of color who are victims of unbelievable violence will find its way into our national discourse in a healthy way. But these discussions involve a number of intersections which are unpalatable by many media sources whose content continually re-enforces the basic social acceptances with few exceptions. One of these exceptions would seem to have been this rash of suicides (by specific folks with specific connections — no less a tragedy for being such) and I am left wondering about their effect on today’s youth’s socioemotional development. The general loss of ancestors in the queer community is well understood through the AIDS crisis in the US of the late 80s and early 90s. While this was a much larger scale, I wonder how the information floating in the social media and LGBTQ cultural atmosphere of these losses will continually warn our society at large while giving voice to the difficulties and tragedies of life that often appear in those around us. These tragedies may have laid the framework for Dan Savage’s often idealized “It Get Better” campaign but I wonder what supports are in place for folks who have heard about their peers’ suicides and left wondering if it ever does. The Clementi article in The New Yorker gives voice to the oppression of one experience — it also gives voice to a queer ancestor of our youngest generation.