April 29: Act Queer! Teleconference: Research in Queer Organizing
Research is something many grassroots movements shun, given its history of pathologizing low-income, queer and trans people, people of color, the disabled, etc.
And yet, there is a wealth of research happening by grassroots organizations, and researchers interested in the strength & resilience of communities.
What are the research strategies being utilized by different queer and progressive groups? What has been successful and what has failed in the past? When complete, where and how is this research distributed? How can the movements engage research towards creating a vision of social justice?
JOIN THE CALL TO FIND OUT!
Please RSVP to this call.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
2pm-3:30pm EST/11am-12:30pm PST
Conference Call # (712) 432-0600
Password: 751219#
Moderator: Kenyon Farrow, Queers for Economic Justice (New York, NY)
Presenters include:
Michelle Billies and Dwayne Bibb, Welfare Warriors Research Collaborative (New York, NY)
Juan Battle, Social Justice Sexuality Initiative (New York, NY)
Shira Hassan, Young Women’s Empowerment Project (Chicago, IL)
Other Presenter TBA!
The purpose of the Act Queer! teleconference series is to connect grassroots LGBTQ, racial,and economic justice organizations with national queer and/or allied coalitions and organizations to share information and strategies on racial and economic justice issues.
3/4:(IN)VISIBLY AMERICAN:THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL IN QUEER IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS
PRESS ADVISORY: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ben de Guzman, NQAPIA
Phone: 202-422-4909
E-mail: ben_deguzman@nqapia.org
The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA)
Barangay-NY
Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY)
Q-WAVE – Queer API Women and Trans. Achieving Visibility & Empowerment
South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (SALGA)
Present:
(IN)VISIBLY AMERICAN:
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL IN QUEER IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS
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- WHAT: We invite you to be part of a unique discussion on queer immigrants’ rights. A panel of experts will provide current updates on the debates around comprehensive immigration reform and their impact at the local and national levels. Members of our community whose lives have been affected by immigration inequality will also share their stories with us. Free!
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- WHO: Speakers Include:
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- Rev. Noel Bordador
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- Un Jung Lim
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- Hon. Daniel Dromm, Chair of NYC Council’s Immigration Committee
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- Ben de Guzman, NQAPIA
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- Miriam Yeung, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
- WHEN: Thursday, March 4, 2010
- Reception and Networking: 6:30 PM (light refreshments)
- Program: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
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- WHERE: Asian American Writers Workshop
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- 16 West 32nd Street,
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- Suite 10A
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- (Between 5th Ave. and Broadway)
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- New York, NY 10001
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- Phone: 212-494-0061
HOW: Co-sponsored by (list still in formation- contact us for more information):
Anti-Violence Project
Asian Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS
Asian American Writer’s Workshop
Audre Lorde Project
Center for Community Change
Immigration Equality
Make the Road New York
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
OCA-NY
Queer Asian Spirit
Queers for Economic Justice
South Asian Americans Leading Together
Stonewall Democratic Club of NYC
QEJ’s February Events in NYC!
Hey Folks,
Just wanted to let you know about some upcoming events in which QEJ is participating. We hope to see you at one or more!
Monday Feb 15th, 730pm: Take This Hammer: James Baldwin & The Right to the City
Followed by a discussion with Rich Blint (Doctoral Candidate, NYU American Studies) and Kenyon Farrow (Executive Director, Queers for Economic Justice)
A documentary that was lost for more than 40 years, Take This Hammer follows author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963, as he’s driven around San Francisco to meet with members of the local African-American community.
Brecht Forum: 451 West Street (bet. Bank & Bethune). NYC.
Wednesday Feb 17th, 10am: Welfare Justice Campaign Press Conference.
On December 23, 2009 — after five years of organizing by Trans and Gender Non Conforming communities — the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) passed a procedure to stop rampant transphobic discrimination and harassment in New York City’s welfare system. Speakers include Jane Corbett, Executive Deputy Commissioner of HRA and members of the Welfare Justice Campaign (TransJustice of the Audre Lorde Project, Housing Works, Queers for Economic Justice, and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project).
Housing Works Bookstore, 126 Crosby Street (between Prince St. and East Houston), NYC.
Saturday, Feb 20th, 7pm: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society.
Post-Obama, has America become colorblind—and is that even a worthy or achievable goal in this country? How does the supposed “post-racial” society measure up to the reality of poor and working people’s lives, 60 years after the Black civil rights movement? Join a freewheeling discussion and celebrate the ongoing struggle for “Freedom Now!”
Speakers include: Norma Abdulah, a retired school teacher and longtime Harlem civil rights leader; Kenyon Farrow, from Queers for Economic Justice and co-editor of Letters from Young Activists; and Emily Woo Yamasaki, representing the Comrades of Color Caucus of Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women.
Door donation, $3. Savory southern supper, 6pm, $9 donation. Work exchanges available for students, low-income and unemployed people.
Freedom Hall, 113 West 128th Street, Harlem (b/t Malcolm X Blvd. & 7th Ave.) Childcare is provided.
2/19: Farrow Speaking on ‘Myth of a Post-Racial Society’
Post-Obama, has America become colorblind—and is that even a worthy or achievable goal in this country? How does the supposed “post-racial” society measure up to the reality of poor and working people’s lives, 60 years after the Black civil rights movement? Join a freewheeling discussion and celebrate the ongoing struggle for “Freedom Now!”
Speakers will include Norma Abdulah, a retired school teacher and longtime Harlem civil rights leader; Kenyon Farrow, from Queers for Economic Justice and co-editor of Letters from Young Activists; and Emily Woo Yamasaki, representing the Comrades of Color Caucus of Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women.
Feb 17: Trans Victory! Welfare Justice Press Conference
On February 17 at 10am a press conference will be held at Housing Works Bookstore (126 Crosby St, between Prince and E. Houston) that will announce a victory for the Welfare Justice Campaign.
The Welfare Justice Campaign is a joint project of Queers for Economic Justice, Audre Lorde Project, Sylvia Rivera Law Project and Housing Works.
Click here to read the full press release.
Feb 15: NYC James Baldwin Film and Discussion with Farrow and Others
Brecht Forum – Film and Discussion
Monday, February 15 – 7:30pm
Take This Hammer follows author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963, as he’s driven around San Francisco to meet with members of the local African-American community. He is escorted by Youth For Service’s Executive Director Orville Luster and intent on discovering: “The real situation of Negroes in the city, as opposed to the image San Francisco would like to present.” He declares: “There is no moral distance … between the facts of life in San Francisco and the facts of life in Birmingham.
“Someone’s got to tell it like it is. And that’s where it’s at.” Includes frank exchanges with local people on the street, meetings with community leaders and extended point-of-view sequences shot from a moving vehicle, featuring the Bayview and Western Addition neighborhoods. Baldwin reflects on the racial inequality that African-Americans are forced to confront and at one point tries to lift the morale of a young man by expressing his conviction that: “There will be a Negro president of this country but it will not be the country that we are sitting in now.”
Jan 28: Act Queer! Economics: Race, Class, Gender and the Economy
In 2010 all of the Act Queer! calls will focus on the current state of the economy. As news stories, individuals and organizations have been discussing the drastic effects of the current economic downturn, there has been limited information about how the economy affects low-income people, queer/trans people, immigrants, people with disabilities, people of color, and those of us who fit two or more of those categories. We envision this year-long teleconference series to help all of us understand the economy and capitalism, and to use that knowledge to continue challenging and changing the systems that create poverty and economic injustice in our communities, and to promote an economic system promotes justice, and the health and well being of all people.
The first call in this series will introduce some of the most recent work being done on how the economic crisis is affecting people of color and the LGBT community. This series is a product of a partnership with the Center for Popular Economics. With their expertise these calls will provide some of the latest and most compelling economic speakers and research.
JOIN THE CALL TO LEARN MORE!
Please RSVP to this call. Supporting materials will be sent out in advance to those who RSVP.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
2pm-3:30pm EST/11am-12:30pm PST
Conference Call # (712) 432-0600
Password: 751219#
Presenters include:
Alyssa Schneebaum, UMass – Amherst (Poverty in the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community)
Dedrick Muhammed, Insititute for Policy Studies (Racial Wealth Divide, State of the Dream Report)
This call is the first of a new year-long series that focuses on the current state of the economy. This series is included in our national coalition-building work called Act Queer! The purpose of the Act Queer! teleconference series is to connect grassroots LGBTQ, racial,and economic justice organizations with national queer and/or allied coalitions and organizations to share information and strategies on racial and economic justice issues.
Dec 17: Act Queer! Teleconference: The Year in Queer Politics
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Queers for Economic Justice would like for you to join us on a national conference call to discuss 2009′s queer politial agenda as part of our ongoing monthly series on racial & economic justice issues that impact poor/low-income, people of color, disabled, LGBTQ communities. From the passage of Prop 8 in California to the passage of the Matthew Shepard Act, the national LGBT political agenda has gained significant momentum. Will the explosion in LGBT policy on the national radar represent a movement towards queer liberation? What’s are there more progressive policy wins possible on the horizon for progressive queers? JOIN THE CALL TO FIND OUT! Please RSVP to this call. Supporting materials will be sent out in advance to those who RSVP. Thursday, December 17, 2009 2pm-3:30pm EST/11am-12:30pm PST Conference Call # (712) 432-0600 Password: 751219# Presenters include: Nicky Grist, Alternatives to Marriage Project (Relationship recognition policy) Robert Espinoza, Funders for LGBTQ Issues (Racial Equity in LGBT Philanthropy) Karina Claudio, Gays and Lesbians of Bushwick Empowered (Trans Unemployment & Employment Non Discrimination Act) Gabriel Arkles, Sylvia Rivera Law Project (Hate Crimes & Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Act) This call is the 7th of a new monthly series called in our national coalition-building work called Act Queer! The purpose of the Act Queer! teleconference series is to connect grassroots LGBTQ, racial,and economic justice organizations with national queer and/or allied coalitions and organizations to share information and strategies on racial and economic justice issues. |
Nov 20: Queen with Benefits! Kenyon’s 35th B-day and QEJ Fundraiser!
Queen with Benefits! Kenyon’s 35th B-day and QEJ Fundraiser!
QUEEN WITH BENEFITS!!!!
Cheap drinks
$1 Shots all night long
SUGARLAND
221 N. 9th St
(between Driggs & Roebling)
Brooklyn, NY
L Train to Bedford
Act Queer Teleconference!: Cultural Organizing and Queer Movements
Queers for Economic Justice would like for you to join us on a national conference call on the significance of cultural organizing within queer movements as part of our ongoing monthly series on racial & economic justice issues that impact poor/low-income, people of color, disabled, LGBTQ communities.
Social justice movements often have bitter divides between people who do cultural work and those that do “political” work. Some movements have made good use of both strategies–those that are organizing to shift cultural narratives and dream new realities, and those who are organizing to undo current and/or build new economic and political realities.
But what can new queers doing economic/political organizing learn from the cultural workers of our movement? JOIN THE CALL TO FIND OUT!
Please RSVP to this call. Supporting materials will be sent out in advance to those who RSVP.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
2pm-3:30pm EST/11am-12:30pm PST
Conference Call # (712) 432-0600
Password: 751219#
Presenters include:
Graciela Sanchez/Amanda Haas, Eperanza Peace and Justice Center (Cultural organizing, radical politics & creating community)
Selly Thiam, None on Record (documenting the struggles and joys of QLGBT Africans through audio stories)
Aurin Squire, Freedom Train Productions (showcasing black, queer protagonists in theatre)
Kebo Drew, Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (promoting the visibility of queer women of color to address social justice issues through authentic life stories)
Other presenters TBA!!!
This call is the 6th of a new monthly series called in our national coalition-building work called Act Queer! The purpose of the Act Queer! teleconference series is to connect grassroots LGBTQ, racial,and economic justice organizations with national queer and/or allied coalitions and organizations to share information and strategies on racial and economic justice issues.
