My Existence Is Resistance | An Evening with Jennicet Gutiérrez
“WHAT: My Existence Is Resistance | An Evening with Jennicet Gutiérrez, The Activist who Interrupted Obama
WHEN: Friday, November 13th at 6pm
WHERE: Juntos Office, 1537 S.6th st (Corner of 6th st & Tasker st)
On June 24, 2015 Jennicet Eva Gutiérrez, an undocumented trans Latina leader, interrupted President Obama at the White House, calling out the detention and abuse of trans undocumented immigrants. She risked her own deportation to elevate and fight for the trans detainees who face human rights abuses and torture inside detention centers here in the US. A week later immigration authorities finally changed their policy for gender identity in immigration detention centers.
Jennicet, who came from Mexico at 15, is a founding member of the national immigrant rights organization Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement and a leader in the national #not1more deportation campaign.
Come learn about how we can all work together to fight back against the detention and deportation machine nationally and how you can support the local work to end deportations, end the detention of our loved ones and how to fight back against the criminalization of immigrant and LGBTQ communities.”