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Oct 30, 2009
this is very fashion forward
Oct 29, 2009
a compilation of critiques on hate crime legislation
Trans people, people of color, and other marginalized groups are disproportionately incarcerated to an overwhelming degree. Trans and gender non-conforming people, particularly trans women of color, are regularly profiled and falsely arrested for doing nothing more than walking down the street.
If we are incarcerating those who commit violence against marginalized individuals/communities we then place them behind walls where they can continue to target these same people. It is not in the best interest of marginalized communities to depend on a system that already commits such great violence to then protect them.
Hate crime laws are an easy way for the government to act like it is on our communities’ side while continuing to discriminate against us. Liberal politicians and institutions can claim “anti-oppression” legitimacy and win points with communities affected by prejudice, while simultaneously using “sentencing enhancement” to justify building more prisons to lock us up in.
Hate crimes legislation is a liberal way of being “tough on crime” while building the power of the police, prosecutors, and prison guards. Rather than address systems of violence like health care disparities, economic exploitation, housing crisis, or police brutality, these politicians use hate-crimes legislation as their stamp of approval on “social issues”.
If we are incarcerating those who commit violence against marginalized individuals/communities we then place them behind walls where they can continue to target these same people. It is not in the best interest of marginalized communities to depend on a system that already commits such great violence to then protect them.
Hate crime laws are an easy way for the government to act like it is on our communities’ side while continuing to discriminate against us. Liberal politicians and institutions can claim “anti-oppression” legitimacy and win points with communities affected by prejudice, while simultaneously using “sentencing enhancement” to justify building more prisons to lock us up in.
Hate crimes legislation is a liberal way of being “tough on crime” while building the power of the police, prosecutors, and prison guards. Rather than address systems of violence like health care disparities, economic exploitation, housing crisis, or police brutality, these politicians use hate-crimes legislation as their stamp of approval on “social issues”.
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there will be many times i want to talk about this, but part of IMPRENTA TRANSGENDER LAW PROJECT's mission is to shift the focus of queer/trans legal advocacy from issues of formal equality (such as hate crimes, discrimination, marriage, sodomy repeal etc) to issues that more directly affect the majority of the trans population, the most vulnerable members of our community, ie low income trans people of color. most of us do not suffer directly at the hands of hate perpetrators, although these incidents are grievous, but rather we fall, to varying degrees, within a matrix of race/class/economic oppression which is doubly impossible because of our non-conforming genders. SOO things like access to social services, housing, foster-care, incarceration, immigration etc. these areas need a LOT of work and critique, as opposed to some of these more mainstream causes, organized by the professionalized segment of the LGBT movement, which have more symbolic significance than daily affect. sure these policies are important, but sadly moreso in that they give us more recourse to put people in jail the next time we are killed and beaten. Hate crimes laws basically define "human" in terms of whether you life is worth putting some one else's else in jail.
there will be many times i want to talk about this, but part of IMPRENTA TRANSGENDER LAW PROJECT's mission is to shift the focus of queer/trans legal advocacy from issues of formal equality (such as hate crimes, discrimination, marriage, sodomy repeal etc) to issues that more directly affect the majority of the trans population, the most vulnerable members of our community, ie low income trans people of color. most of us do not suffer directly at the hands of hate perpetrators, although these incidents are grievous, but rather we fall, to varying degrees, within a matrix of race/class/economic oppression which is doubly impossible because of our non-conforming genders. SOO things like access to social services, housing, foster-care, incarceration, immigration etc. these areas need a LOT of work and critique, as opposed to some of these more mainstream causes, organized by the professionalized segment of the LGBT movement, which have more symbolic significance than daily affect. sure these policies are important, but sadly moreso in that they give us more recourse to put people in jail the next time we are killed and beaten. Hate crimes laws basically define "human" in terms of whether you life is worth putting some one else's else in jail.
i could go on but this website is way more consise and organized... so GO.
MAH GIRL MARIANA
she MADE this the night before. with the HEELS. (ps. my look is just a skirt pinned to boobies)
who is Mariana Marroquin?
words cannot. she works as an HIV prevention counselor at Bienestar and also she is an amahzing actor/performer/visionary/filmic-presence/muse/genius and i love her so much...
we are collaborating on another project called PIG ("politically involved girls") with Zackary Drucker. performing at X projects in nyc on jan 28th. more about that when it becomes relevant...
pretty much heaven
MISS BIENESTAR 2009
BRENDA KILLING IT AS USUAL
LESLIE IS MISS B '08 BTW
BRENDA KILLING IT AS USUAL
ADRIANA IS THE WINNER!!!
Oct 28, 2009
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this is Isis.
Oct 24, 2009
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Oct 15, 2009
stonewall image
My film is part documentary, part narrative. the narrative bit is based on a short story written by Raquel Gutierrez, which takes place in the early 80s. The main character is a 15 year-old boy named Teódulo Mejía, whose father is a leader in the FMLN (Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí). He arrives to MacArthur Park in 1985 amongst the waves of political immigrants seeking asylum from Latin America. The US intervention in El Salvador was at its time the largest counter-insurgency war against left-wing guerrillas since Vietnam. So there is a deep irony that many of these refugees ended up here in southern California, in the crux of a totally other set of oppressions. This history is so embedded in LA and the Silver Platter. Raquel's story folds together ideological/sexual revolutions and I'm so excited to turn it into film using lo-fi cinema magic-tricks... thinking of Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames IN GENERAL.
Maria's Story directed by Manona Wali and Pamela Cohen
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