Cash Askew, 22, died in the Oakland "Ghost Ship" Warehouse fire. Cash was a transgender musician from San Francisco. She played guitar in a goth-pop duo called "Them Are Us Too"
Survived by father, Christopher Conn Askew; stepfather and mother, Sunny Haire and Leisa Baird Askew.
"I've never been a very assertive person, so I have a hard time confronting people on a level of this, whether its the blatant sexism or the misgendering. Breaking down the constant conditioning enveloping anyone who is not cisgender/able-bodied/white/male — that you are not entitled to space, or to be heard — can be really difficult. As a trans person, I'm constantly doubting myself and afraid that people will like me less or take me less seriously if I make a point of who I am. But I'm working on being more assertive, especially because I have the privilege of having a record out and suddenly getting a lot more attention and praise. I feel some responsibility to claim space, to be vocal and visible. I hope that in doing so I can help these spaces feel more comfortable for other queer folks and femmes who are constantly being silenced, ignored and manipulated in music. I want to take advantage of my position even if it just means one kid at our show feeling a little safer or prouder. But in advocating visibility as we try to make a living off our music, I also need to be really careful not to slip towards some assimilationist bullshit of incorporating relatively radical queer identities into a violent and oppressive mainstream culture. I don't want my identity or anyone else's to be tokenized for liberals to pat themselves on the back for being so progressive while ignoring myriad other injustices, and I don't want our identities to be commodified and sold back to us for the benefit of people who already have power." – Cash Askew, 2015 Interview in Slutist
Additional Victims of the Fire:
David Cline
Nick Gomez-Hall
Sara Hoda
Donna Kellogg
Nex Iuguolo
Travis Hough
Pete Wadsworth
Barrett Clark
Ara Jo
Jonathan Bernbaum
Draven McGill
Em Bohika
Micah Danemayer
Alex Ghassan
Hanna Ruax
Joey Casio (Joseph Matlock)
Johnny Igaz
Michela Angelina Gregory
Amanda Kershaw
Edmond Lapine
Griffin Sean Madden
Jennifer Morris
Feral Pines (Riley Fritz)
Vanessa Plotkin
Billy Dixon
Chelsea Dolan
Denalda Nicole Renae (aka Nicole Siegrist)
Ben Runnels
Jennifer Kiyomi Tanouye
Alex Vega
Brandon Chase Wittenauer
Jennifer Mendiola
Wolfgang Renner
Michele Sylvan
Nick Walrath
Survived by father, Christopher Conn Askew; stepfather and mother, Sunny Haire and Leisa Baird Askew.
"I've never been a very assertive person, so I have a hard time confronting people on a level of this, whether its the blatant sexism or the misgendering. Breaking down the constant conditioning enveloping anyone who is not cisgender/able-bodied/white/male — that you are not entitled to space, or to be heard — can be really difficult. As a trans person, I'm constantly doubting myself and afraid that people will like me less or take me less seriously if I make a point of who I am. But I'm working on being more assertive, especially because I have the privilege of having a record out and suddenly getting a lot more attention and praise. I feel some responsibility to claim space, to be vocal and visible. I hope that in doing so I can help these spaces feel more comfortable for other queer folks and femmes who are constantly being silenced, ignored and manipulated in music. I want to take advantage of my position even if it just means one kid at our show feeling a little safer or prouder. But in advocating visibility as we try to make a living off our music, I also need to be really careful not to slip towards some assimilationist bullshit of incorporating relatively radical queer identities into a violent and oppressive mainstream culture. I don't want my identity or anyone else's to be tokenized for liberals to pat themselves on the back for being so progressive while ignoring myriad other injustices, and I don't want our identities to be commodified and sold back to us for the benefit of people who already have power." – Cash Askew, 2015 Interview in Slutist
Additional Victims of the Fire:
David Cline
Nick Gomez-Hall
Sara Hoda
Donna Kellogg
Nex Iuguolo
Travis Hough
Pete Wadsworth
Barrett Clark
Ara Jo
Jonathan Bernbaum
Draven McGill
Em Bohika
Micah Danemayer
Alex Ghassan
Hanna Ruax
Joey Casio (Joseph Matlock)
Johnny Igaz
Michela Angelina Gregory
Amanda Kershaw
Edmond Lapine
Griffin Sean Madden
Jennifer Morris
Feral Pines (Riley Fritz)
Vanessa Plotkin
Billy Dixon
Chelsea Dolan
Denalda Nicole Renae (aka Nicole Siegrist)
Ben Runnels
Jennifer Kiyomi Tanouye
Alex Vega
Brandon Chase Wittenauer
Jennifer Mendiola
Wolfgang Renner
Michele Sylvan
Nick Walrath
Cash Askew, 22, died in the Oakland "Ghost Ship" Warehouse fire. Cash was a transgender musician from San Francisco. She played guitar in a goth-pop duo called "Them Are Us Too"
Survived by father, Christopher Conn Askew; stepfather and mother, Sunny Haire and Leisa Baird Askew.
"I've never been a very assertive person, so I have a hard time confronting people on a level of this, whether its the blatant sexism or the misgendering. Breaking down the constant conditioning enveloping anyone who is not cisgender/able-bodied/white/male — that you are not entitled to space, or to be heard — can be really difficult. As a trans person, I'm constantly doubting myself and afraid that people will like me less or take me less seriously if I make a point of who I am. But I'm working on being more assertive, especially because I have the privilege of having a record out and suddenly getting a lot more attention and praise. I feel some responsibility to claim space, to be vocal and visible. I hope that in doing so I can help these spaces feel more comfortable for other queer folks and femmes who are constantly being silenced, ignored and manipulated in music. I want to take advantage of my position even if it just means one kid at our show feeling a little safer or prouder. But in advocating visibility as we try to make a living off our music, I also need to be really careful not to slip towards some assimilationist bullshit of incorporating relatively radical queer identities into a violent and oppressive mainstream culture. I don't want my identity or anyone else's to be tokenized for liberals to pat themselves on the back for being so progressive while ignoring myriad other injustices, and I don't want our identities to be commodified and sold back to us for the benefit of people who already have power." – Cash Askew, 2015 Interview in Slutist
Additional Victims of the Fire:
David Cline
Nick Gomez-Hall
Sara Hoda
Donna Kellogg
Nex Iuguolo
Travis Hough
Pete Wadsworth
Barrett Clark
Ara Jo
Jonathan Bernbaum
Draven McGill
Em Bohika
Micah Danemayer
Alex Ghassan
Hanna Ruax
Joey Casio (Joseph Matlock)
Johnny Igaz
Michela Angelina Gregory
Amanda Kershaw
Edmond Lapine
Griffin Sean Madden
Jennifer Morris
Feral Pines (Riley Fritz)
Vanessa Plotkin
Billy Dixon
Chelsea Dolan
Denalda Nicole Renae (aka Nicole Siegrist)
Ben Runnels
Jennifer Kiyomi Tanouye
Alex Vega
Brandon Chase Wittenauer
Jennifer Mendiola
Wolfgang Renner
Michele Sylvan
Nick Walrath
Survived by father, Christopher Conn Askew; stepfather and mother, Sunny Haire and Leisa Baird Askew.
"I've never been a very assertive person, so I have a hard time confronting people on a level of this, whether its the blatant sexism or the misgendering. Breaking down the constant conditioning enveloping anyone who is not cisgender/able-bodied/white/male — that you are not entitled to space, or to be heard — can be really difficult. As a trans person, I'm constantly doubting myself and afraid that people will like me less or take me less seriously if I make a point of who I am. But I'm working on being more assertive, especially because I have the privilege of having a record out and suddenly getting a lot more attention and praise. I feel some responsibility to claim space, to be vocal and visible. I hope that in doing so I can help these spaces feel more comfortable for other queer folks and femmes who are constantly being silenced, ignored and manipulated in music. I want to take advantage of my position even if it just means one kid at our show feeling a little safer or prouder. But in advocating visibility as we try to make a living off our music, I also need to be really careful not to slip towards some assimilationist bullshit of incorporating relatively radical queer identities into a violent and oppressive mainstream culture. I don't want my identity or anyone else's to be tokenized for liberals to pat themselves on the back for being so progressive while ignoring myriad other injustices, and I don't want our identities to be commodified and sold back to us for the benefit of people who already have power." – Cash Askew, 2015 Interview in Slutist
Additional Victims of the Fire:
David Cline
Nick Gomez-Hall
Sara Hoda
Donna Kellogg
Nex Iuguolo
Travis Hough
Pete Wadsworth
Barrett Clark
Ara Jo
Jonathan Bernbaum
Draven McGill
Em Bohika
Micah Danemayer
Alex Ghassan
Hanna Ruax
Joey Casio (Joseph Matlock)
Johnny Igaz
Michela Angelina Gregory
Amanda Kershaw
Edmond Lapine
Griffin Sean Madden
Jennifer Morris
Feral Pines (Riley Fritz)
Vanessa Plotkin
Billy Dixon
Chelsea Dolan
Denalda Nicole Renae (aka Nicole Siegrist)
Ben Runnels
Jennifer Kiyomi Tanouye
Alex Vega
Brandon Chase Wittenauer
Jennifer Mendiola
Wolfgang Renner
Michele Sylvan
Nick Walrath
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