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Oaxaca to Yanquilandia Tour: Meet 'n' Greet with LGBQTSTGNC Human Rights Workers from Mexico

When: 
Friday, April 1, 2011 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm


Take this rare opportunity to meet and talk with the fierce and lovely founders of the human rights organization Asilegal! 

Asilegal (short for Asistencia Legal) and while based in México City, does work across the entire country.  The agency is in the mode of legal defense organizations here in the US in that it works on changing policy and legislation, but also does targeted litigation.  Specifically, it sues the federal Mexican government over human rights abuses and politically motivated imprisonment. It limits its work to the following populations: LGBQTSTGNC, women, indigenous, and seniors (elders).

The founders, Luis and Luis, make a yearly trip to the USA to meet with folks working on international coalitions on migration, global due process, and the global prison industrial complex.

 

Training Opportunity! 3rd Space Support Response Team

When: 
Friday, March 25, 2011 - 12:00pm to 6:00pm

Do you want to learn how to deal with crisis? Navigate the system? Support your community?

Join the 3rd Space Support Response Team!

We are looking for folks to support the Audre Lorde Project's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non Conforming (LGBTSTGNC) People of Color (POC) community members who are struggling with issues of employment, education, health care and immigration status and the system. As a part of the Response Team you will: do intakes, provide one-on-one advocacy, suggest resources and referrals and support. This team is a place to give and receive sustainable support; where creation, invention and innovation will be practiced. We will draw from our resilience to support ourselves.

 

A Moment For Movement Building: LGBTSTGNC POC Groups Welcome Queer Palestinians to The Audre Lorde Project

When: 
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 6:00pm to 8:30pm

Palestinian Queer Activists Talk Politics

Queer Palestinian groups began to emerge in Israel and the West Bank as early as 2001. After a decade of activism, we aspire to lead a new queer movement that is integral to the Palestinian society, a movement that interlinks and intersects with other social and political struggles and communities. We hope to pave the road way for a relevant and local sexual discourse and a more visible LGBTQ activism.

How is the Palestinian queer movement similar and different than other LGBTQ movements around the world? What are the questions, challenges, and beliefs that shape the discourse of the Palestinian queer movement? How can the other queer people understand and work with issues of visibility and the notion of “coming out” within the Palestinian context? What are the goals, joys, challenges, strategies and dreams of these groups?

From February 5-18, 2011 Ghadir of Aswat – Palestinian Gay Women and Haneen Maikey and Sami Shamali of alQaws - for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society, will be on a ground breaking tour of 6 US cities for a series of open conversations moderated by locally and nationally known US activists.

Join us. Listen, ask, learn and connect.

Organized and Moderated by Jasbir Puar, author of "Terrorist Assemblages" and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers. Co-Sponsored by SALGA, Q-Wave, GAPIMNY, Sylvia Rivera Law Project and Queers for Economic Justice.

Healing and Justice: A Shift in NYC?

When: 
Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
What does healing have to do with social justice? What role does trauma play in our movements? How do we ensure that our coworkers are in good health and good spirits? How is our work compromised when we do not have self-care support in the work place? How does the history of the medical industrial complex effect each of our bodies as we work, as we push for joy, for justice? What does the pace of work in NYC non-profits have to do with institutions of capitalism, ableism, and other systems of oppression?

 

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