CARNIVAL: Special International Women’s History Month Celebration & Fundraiser for The Audre Lorde Project
Bran Fenner, Julienne “June” Brown, Kaos Blac, Lindsey Charles, Niknaz Tavakolian, Saul Silva, Zavé Martohardjono and Imani Henry
In conjunction with Ubiquita Worldwide Presents
CARNIVAL
A monthly dance party featuring show stopping performances for all the Beautiful & Colorful Divas, Muscle Men, B-Boys, 2-Spirits, Amazons & our Str8 Kin
Featuring the Legendary Ladies of Ubiquita, DJs Reborn, Selly & Moni with Carnival’s resident DJ A.K Right aka Bran Fenner
StoryTelling and Organizing Project Workshop
StoryTelling and Organizing Project workshop
Wednesday, March 3rd
6:30-9pm
Audre Lorde Project
85 S. Oxford, Brooklyn
Please share with those working on or thinking about community responses to harm!
SOS Collective Step Team Rehearsal
SOS Collective Step Team Rehearsal
Palestinian Queer Activists Talk Politics
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?
SOS Collective Active Volunteer Meeting
For active volunteers of SOS Collective to help plan events, learn more about anti-violence work, contribute your passion and time to building a campaign for community safety, and participate in mini-trainings.
Snacks and METROcards will be provided.
Welfare Justice Celebration - Please note new date and time
Let’s Celebrate the Welfare Justice Campaign Victory!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
6pm-10pm
Audre Lorde Project
85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY
TransJustice Community School
Please note, some folks have mentioned that the session times (4pm-8pm) are a challenge, we encourage folks to please apply anyways as we may be able to work something out.
APPLY FOR THE TRANSJUSTICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL!
Applications are Due February 3, 2010
Stipends & Metrocards Provided to Participants
The TransJustice Community School is for People of Color who identify as Trans and Gender Non Conformingfor example people of color who identify as trans, gender non-conforming, gender variant, gender deviant, butch lesbians, drag queens, bi-gendered, Two-Spirit, drag kings, femme queens, A.G., gender queer, non-gendered, andro, crossdressers, gender-benders, and more.
The TransJustice Community School aims to strengthen our community and ourselves and build participants confidence and self-esteem. The TransJustice Community School will focus on building the leadership of Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color, while participating in a larger multi-racial, multi-gender community that fights injustice facing those who are most historically targeted in the U.S. Through discussions and panels, workshops, visiting other groups and experience participants will:
- Learn how to and teach others to be self-advocates regarding Know Your Rights as it relates to: HRA, Housing Authorities, the Police System, and Health Care.
- Learn how to do public speaking related to ALP/TransJustice and the Welfare Justice Campaign.
- Learn how to identify and share crisis and sustainable living resources related to: health care, housing, legal issues, counseling and other common issues in our community.
- Learn how to facilitate meetings and how to make decisions and plan in a group setting.
- Learn what goes into planning, executing and evaluating parts of a campaign.
- Learn from experienced community members lessons on personal and community based survival.
The TransJustice Community School is an eight week program that will begin on February 16th, 2010 and will end on April 10, 2010.
- There will be 3 sessions a week from 4pm-8pm on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
- There is no fee for participation. Participants will receive a meal at each session, a $70 weekly stipend, metrocards, and a certificate of completion (full participation is required). On time attendance at all sessions is also required.
- Location will be at ALP, 85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY.
HOW TO APPLY: Complete and return the application by February 3, 2010. Send form by email totransjustice@alp.org or fax to 718.596.1328 or mail to ALP, 85 South Oxford St., Brooklyn, NY 11217. For more info contact transjustice@alp.org or Mya (ext. 23) or Jen (ext. 32) at 718-596-0342.
Protest Today Tues 1pm: Stop the Eviction of Starlite Lounge! -- 50 year old Black-Owned Safe Haven for the LGBT Community
Stop the Eviction of Starlite Lounge! -- 50 year old Black-Owned Safe Haven
When: Tues 2/2/10 1pm
Where: 1080 Bergen between Rogers & Nostrand; Brooklyn, New York
ALP is closed to the public for the week of February 1-7, 2010
ALP will be closed to the public for the week of February 1-7, 2010 as many of us will be in Dallas at Creating Change. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
Reclaim Safety with ALP and CUAV on December 8th!
LGBTSTGNC People from the Bay to Brooklyn Create Community Solutions to Violence
We are mourning the tragic deaths of 15-year-old African American Jaysen Mattison in Baltimore and 19-year-old Puerto Rican Jorge Steven López Mercado in Puerto Rico, and the countless others we have lost to hate violence. Our sorrow and outrage go out to their families and communities: we know Jaysen and Jorge were taken from you too soon. We recognize that there is a war against low-income, immigrant, and LGBTSTGNC (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two- Spirit, Trans, and Gender Non-Conforming) People of Color, and that our people are meeting early deaths at the hands of hatred, abuse, neglect, and oppression.
Unfortunately, the recent passing of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the nation’s first ever federal LGBTSTGNC-inclusive hate crimes bill, will not stop the violence we face. The bill:
- Provides no funding or resources to actually prevent violence, but instead gives $5 million to expand the powers of local police and the FBI to investigate and prosecute incidences of hate violence.
- Strengthens a criminal “justice” system that funnels more and more poor people and people of color into prisons and away from our families.
- Supports the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the larger Defense Authorization Act, which allocated $130 billion to military efforts instead of to education, jobs, housing, and healthcare.
- Reaffirms the idea that safety comes through more police and more people in prison, instead of by addressing the real needs of survivors of violence, people who have been violent, and the communities affected.
We believe that we can create our own safety. We desire and demand solutions that challenge the real causes of violence: homophobia, transphobia, and economic injustice. As we demand the basic necessities that we need to survive—jobs, housing, healthcare, and education—we know that we must create real ways for communities to respond to and prevent violence without relying on violent institutions. We refuse to have our pain used to support violence of any kind.
JOIN US ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8TH FOR A DAY OF RECLAIMING SAFETY. LGBTSTGNC communities from the Bay to Brooklyn will be strategizing and discussing community based solutions to violence. If you are in the Bay Area or the NYC area, attend the events listed below. If you are not, we encourage you to plan a conversation or some other type of event and let us know how it went.
Together, we can turn the tides of violence