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| Jennicet Gutiérrez of Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement |
Jennicet Gutiérrez, who
interrupted a White House gay pride event with a call to end detainment and
deportation of LGBTQ immigrants in June 2015, will open the 2nd
Asterisk Trans* Conference on Friday, February 25, 2016 at UC Riverside.
She and other trans and
queer immigrants, undocumented and allies, youth leaders and parents helped
found Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement in 2014. Familia’s working
vision is “to the liberation of every LGBTQ Latin@ and to a radically and
collective revolution to empower and free our culture, art, history and
families from oppression. We seek to abolish the systems that imprison, kill
and marginalize our people. We are here to help re-vision a new world founded
on the principles of self-relization and self-determination.”
Jennicet will speak about
her own journey to activism and the current sitiation for undocumented LGBTQ
immigrants. According to a 2014 Fusion investigation,
“U.S. immigration officials detain an average of 75 transgender detainees each
night. Even though transgender immigrants make up just one out of every 500
detainees, they account for one out of five confirmed sexual abuse cases in
Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention.”
Friday’s events are free and
open to the public. Saturday’s events are open to all who register online. Learn more here.
