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Stonewall does not mean same-sex marriage
The Stonewall riots were a moment of resistance to police violence and repression. Come celebrate our queer legacy of queer prison abolition!
CRIMINAL QUEERS: A NIGHT OF PERFORMANCE, PROTEST AND ABOLITION
Curators-Chris Vargas & Eric Stanley
June 17, 2008 7:30 pm
SomArts 934 Brannan St. San Francisco, CA
Tickets $5-$15 Sliding Scale, NOTA and Free food!
The evening will be a benefit for Trans/Gender Variant in Prison Committee (TIP). http://www.tgijp.org/tip/
The Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) holds captive generations of trans/ gender variant and queer folks. From groups like the Lower Polk Neighbors that work with the police to imprison us under the guise of “revitalization” to Kamala Harris' "hate crime enhancement" crusade that works to strengthen the PIC while purporting to make us safer, the PIC works in various and often unexpected ways to erase our lives and cultures. This program blends together performance and political education to instigate dialog around the crisis of mass imprisonment. The night will end with a rough cut of the soon be finished "Criminal Queers." This film visualizes a radical queer struggle against the PIC and toward a world without walls. Beyond presentation, we will build resistance through conversation, intervention, and collective imagination.
Featuring: Miss Major and Nat Smith (TIP), Ralowe T. Ampu (Gay Shame SF), Digital Storytelling Project, folks from the Bay Area NJ4 Collective and will end with a preview of Criminal Queers (Vargas, Stanley 2008).
Curators-Chris Vargas & Eric Stanley
June 17, 2008 7:30 pm
SomArts 934 Brannan St. San Francisco, CA
Tickets $5-$15 Sliding Scale, NOTA and Free food!
The evening will be a benefit for Trans/Gender Variant in Prison Committee (TIP). http://www.tgijp.org/tip/
The Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) holds captive generations of trans/ gender variant and queer folks. From groups like the Lower Polk Neighbors that work with the police to imprison us under the guise of “revitalization” to Kamala Harris' "hate crime enhancement" crusade that works to strengthen the PIC while purporting to make us safer, the PIC works in various and often unexpected ways to erase our lives and cultures. This program blends together performance and political education to instigate dialog around the crisis of mass imprisonment. The night will end with a rough cut of the soon be finished "Criminal Queers." This film visualizes a radical queer struggle against the PIC and toward a world without walls. Beyond presentation, we will build resistance through conversation, intervention, and collective imagination.
Featuring: Miss Major and Nat Smith (TIP), Ralowe T. Ampu (Gay Shame SF), Digital Storytelling Project, folks from the Bay Area NJ4 Collective and will end with a preview of Criminal Queers (Vargas, Stanley 2008).
For more information:
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/Q...
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