Finisia Medrano November 7, 1956–April 3, 2020 By Seda, Amara, Spider, Sighmoon and Jim
“But if it pleases you, oh God, That I walk alone. Make that walk be a shortened one that my heart doesn’t turn to stone.”1 Well damn, the infamous “Tranny Granny” finally kicked the seed bucket. Finisia Medrano, one of the craziest mother-loving fuckers you’d ever meet died on April third of natural causes in Caliente, Nevada at the Shady Motel. She passed away amongst two friends while ‘peacefully’ trolling Facebook. Her last days were spent planting a magnificent ancestral garden. She was planting nuts and other stone fruits, cutting up logs with her chainsaw, and teaching rabbit hunting when she had a heart attack on April Fool’s day. “She is already buried in her garden by those lilies. Her heart is feeding them there.”2 Though many have wished her dead at some point, now that this root-digging, seed-planting, shit-talking, cop-tricking, scripture-spitting Auntie-Christ trickster is dead, lord knows we’ll still miss her. Cuz damn she was epic and poured her fuckedup heart and her tears and her cunt into healing the earth and now that she’s dead we all get to pretend it was only ever super sacred special magic and nothing else, right?! Just kidding! So here’s to one of the most prolific and problematic hard-ass, hotmesses we’ve ever known. Glad you gave us enough to laugh about, roots to eat, and seeds to plant for the rest of our lives to get us through all the trauma you’ve inflicted. “I suppose if you were to plant your trails in bread for your children and everywhere you went you pooped berries and they grew, and everywhere behind you in ten years the thing was just more abundant with just every kind of food. And I’d suppose if you could live in a symbiotic way in this last existing ribbon of the opportunity, and live like a snake or maybe a coyote and eat these rats and dig these roots 60 RFD 182 Summer 2020
and walk in beauty, walking in beauty would be your trails, all the time coming back, with biscuits and berries. Every step you make, planting your trails behind you, walking in beauty.”3 For more of Finisia’s writings check out her book Growing Up in Occupied America (available to order on www.lulu.com) and her videos on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Finisiamedrano. From “A Lonely Lily in the Snow” by Finisia Medrano 2 . From “The Lily is a Lady” by Finisia Medrano. 3 . From a video Finisia made of herself. 1
“Finisia and Pup” by Timothy White Eagle and Adrian Chesser.
