Uplifting UndocuQueer & Trans Youth Activism
Trans & Queer Migration Uplifting UndocuQueer Youth Activism Created by the Youth Organizing Team. Explore the goals, community agreements, wellness tips, jeopardy, and movement timeline addressing immigrant rights.
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Trans & Queer Migration Trans & Queer Migration Uplifting UndocuQueer Youth Activism Created by the Youth Organizing Team
Introductions Introductions Type in the chat or share out loud: Name Pronouns School or grade Question of the Day: If you could have any cartoon character s voice, whose would it be? Source: Transgender Law Center
Agenda Agenda Welcome & Community Agreements Wellness Tip Jeopardy! UndocuQueer/Trans Movement Timeline Where Are We Now? Closing & Announcements Source: AshlukaDraws
Todays Goals Today s Goals Get wellness tips to practice self love during this time Build awareness of trans and queer youth leaders contributions to the immigrant rights movement in the U.S. Source: Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement
Sample Community Agreements Be as present as you can. 1) Mute audio 2) Try on video 3) Use the chat box Vegas Rule What s said here stays here; what s learned here leaves here. Community Garden Chat it! Intent vs. Impact Right to Pass Use content warnings. Understand informed consent.
Wellness: Journaling Wellness: Journaling Prompts: 1. How did your family come to the USA? 2. If you could migrate elsewhere, where would you go and why? 3. What comes to mind when you think of immigration ? Source: MainLine Today
UndocuQueer & Trans UndocuQueer & Trans Jeopardy! Jeopardy!
UndocuQueer & Trans UndocuQueer & Trans Movement Movement Every person who immigrates to the U.S. has a unique story with many layers. They have intersecting identities: Gender (cis womxn, trans womxn, cis men, trans men, agender, etc.), sexual orientation, race, language, religion, and more People of color have very different immigration stories from people who come from Europe Source: Forward Together
Timeline: 2010 Timeline: 2010 California DREAM Act: Provides undocumented students with financial aid and in-state tuition Federal DREAM Act: Would provide undocumented youth with a pathway to citizenship. It passed in the U.S. House of Representatives but died in the Senate. Clean Dream Act: What do you think this means? Source: Immigrant Law Center of MN
Timeline: 2012 Timeline: 2012- -2013 2013 June 15th, 2012 After many years of activism and advocacy, undocumented youth can legally work and live in the USA (with restrictions) 13 states now provide driver licenses for undocumented people: California, Colorado, Delaware, Connecticut, New York, Utah, New Mexico, Maryland, Illinois, Vermont, Washington, and Hawaii. Source: Power to the Poster
Onward Onward Trans and queer leaders continued to fight for undocumented immigrants rights Example: Jennicet Gutierrez, a trans immigrant, continues her fight for trans women held in detention centers by disrupting Obama The fight to protect undocumented immigrants continues, because DACA is not granted to everyone Arist: @amir.khadar
Movement Video Movement Video Jennicet Gutierrez - Transgender Who Interrupted President Obama's Speech | American Latino An LGBT pride reception held at the White House last year made international news when President Obama was interrupted by an audience member protesting the detention and deportation of transgender immigrants. The transgendered woman who made the protest is Jennicet Guti rrez an activist for transgender equality. Groups such as GetEQUAL and as an undocumented immigrant, she is a founding member of FAMILIA T.Q.L.M, which was established to advocate for gay and transgender deportees often excluded in the immigration debate. And now for more on her fight for equality, and insight into her harrowing journey is the activist herself, Jennicet Gutierrez, speaking truth to power. Season 14 | Episode 21 American Latino: Facebook Facebook.com/AmericanLatino Instagram Instagram.com/AmericanLatino Twitter Twitter.com/AmericanLatino
Timeline: 2017 Timeline: 2017 September 2017: Trump announces he is ending DACA CA passes the TRUTH ACT (Transparent Review of Unjust Transfers and Holds): Local police can no longer work with ICE Children are being seperated at the border Source: AshlukaDraws
Current Movement Current Movement LGBTQ+ Black and Latinx youth are continuing the fight to save DACA Young people in Kern County fight to free womxn from ICE prisons Youth continue to fight for a Clean DREAM Act People are coming together to create mutual aid for DACA application fees Source: Power to the Poster
Closing & Announcements Next meeting date and time For LGBTQ+ stories, read Youth Voices Click here to sign up for weekly GSA Network updates.
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