Check out some of our workshop material from the tour!

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Check out some of our workshop material from the tour!
And we're back!
Literally! Gender Justice LA Dignity and Justice Campaign's Theatre of the Oppressed program was on tour! For most of us, this was our first time at the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference and the Allied Media Conference. For some of us, this was our first time on a plane and on the East Coast!
In our workshops, we discussed community-based responses to violence using images, machines, and Forum Theatre. In our images, we invited participants to show different experiences with the police state and the prison system as low-income trans* folks of color and allies, as well as resilient resistant responses that our people are making happen every day. Our Forum Theatre piece (featuring Yoyo, Jovan, Mitali, Alette, Julianne, Ezak, Chella and Shruti) was developed by sewing together many individual experiences of interacting with our broader community, hospitals, and LGBT non-profits, inviting audience members to practice making interventions in these different settings. We had amazing feedback from our three workshops-- one person's evaluation even said that this was the best workshop they had ever been to!
To keep building our ongoing movement, some of our group members made a stop in New York City to visit Audre Lorde Project, Fierce!, and Sylvia Rivera Law Project. It felt important to build and exchange with organizations on a similar political wavelength to address experiences of trans and queer people of color within police and prison systems.
We came back with our brains and hearts full, and all the more motivation to keep going! Join us for our report back at the next GJLA monthly membership meeting:
Full conference report back
Monthly membership meeting
Wednesday, July 31 @ 7pm
For more info, contact Ezak.
Where is GJLA TO in JUNE 2013?
here > ALLIED MEDIA CONFERENCE June 20, 2013 - June 23, 2013
The Allied Media Conference is a collaborative laboratory of media-based organizing strategies for transforming our world, held every Summer in Detroit.
OUR WORKSHOP -
1. Trans* Dignity and Justice (BLOCK 2: June 21, 11:00AM - 12:30pm)
and here > PHILADELPHIA TRANS-HEALTH CONFERENCE! June 13, 2013 - June 15, 2013 PTHC proudly offers a space for Trans* people and our allies, families, and providers to come together to re-envision what health means for Trans* people. The focus of this unique conference is promoting transgender health and wellness in mind, body, spirit, and community.
We're holding not one but TWO workshops at the PTHC this year!
1. Arm Your Art: Strategizing Creating Community-Based Responses to Violence (June 12, 5:40pm - 7:00pm)
2. Arm Your Art: Strategizing Creating Community-Based Responses to Violence (for trans* folx of color) (June 15 10:20am - 11:40am)
Click through to get more information on the conferences and our workshops!
Ever wonder how you can share quick tips on how to be a fabulous ally?
Take a look at this at this amazing comic completely crafted by members of GJLA Theatre of the Oppressed!
Share it around!
For more information about GJLA Theatre of The Oppressed and our Dignity and Justice Campaign: [email protected]
Local Autonomy Networks :: Los Angeles with Gender Justice LA
March 8, 2013
USC School of Cinematic Arts Gallery, SCA 120
6:30-9:30pm
6:30-8:30pm Workshop using Theater of the Oppressed
8:30-9pm Opening reception
9-9:30pm Performance
Exhibition hours
Sat-sun 3/9-3/10, 12-4pm
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Hey Gender Justice LA TO!
We have an exciting performance/action coming up, and our next TO workshop (THIS SUNDAY, March 2, 2-5pm at The Labor/Community Strategy Center) will help us prepare for it! Even if you can't attend the performance/action (see below for details), we'd love to have you join us for the rehearsal--your input is very valuable! As always, no experience necessary. Just bring yourself and food to share if you're able (no-pressure potluck).
GJLA TO, in collaboration with Micha Cárdenas of Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets), is planning to respond to the increases in police and security at USC. Some of you may know that we no longer meet in our former space in the McClintock building on USC's campus. This is because we felt that increased policing and ID-ing made the USC campus unsafe for our community.
To process and respond to this, as well as to other increased policing efforts, join us at our regularly scheduled TO workshop this Sunday AND at our upcoming performance/action!
Local Autonomy Networks :: Los Angeles (with Gender Justice LA)
Friday, March 8th, 2013
USC School of Cinematic Arts Gallery, SCA 120
6:30 - 8:30: Workshop using Theatre of the Oppressed
8:30 - 9:00: Opening Reception
9:00 - 9:30: Performance
We'd love to see you there!
In solidarity,
Shruti
Micha
Ezak
Julianne
Deborah
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On March 8th, Gender Justice LA's Theatre of the Oppressed Group will be joining with Local Autonomy Networks, a project started by Micha Cárdenas, to host a workshop and performance about the militarization of college campuses and community-based responses to violence. Starting with the question "Does this look like safety to you?" this eveningwill respond to the recent policy at the University of Southern California to set up mini borders, complete with metal expanding fences and computer-aided checkpoints, at all of their entrances at night. These checkpoints, reminiscent of both the US/Mexico border and the Israel/Palestine border, reinforce a militarized mindset that contradicts USC's image of having integration with the surrounding community. ID checks such as these only serve to make transgender people and undocumented people unsafe, effectively excluding them from the community. Join us for a three-hour workshop that will culminate in a performance just outside of the checkpoint where we will use Theatre of the Oppressed to embody what safety looks like to our community of gender non-conforming and transgender people of color and allies.
Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets) is an artivist project focused on creating networks of communication to increase community autonomy and reduce violence against women, LGBTQI people, people of color and other groups who continue to survive violence on a daily basis. The networks are both online and offline, including handmade wearable electronic fashion and face to face agreements between people. The networks are being established through a series of workshops, performances, presentations and discussions at art, activist and academic venues in the Americas and Europe. The project was started by Micha Cárdenas but is rapidly expanding into an ecology of networks involving many artists, hackers and activists.Autonets includes a line of mesh networked electronic clothing with the goal of building autonomous local networks that don’t rely on corporate infrastructure to function, inspired by community based, anti-racist, prison abolitionist responses to gendered violence. The Autonets garments, when activated, will alert everyone in range of the the local mesh network who is wearing another autonet garment that someone needs help and will indicate that person’s direction and distance.
These technologies are being developed through workshops and collective design processes, inspired by existing networks of horizontal knowledge production in queer, transgender, survivors of gender violence and diasporic communities. We are currently in collaboration with groups wanting to use Autonets to reduce violence against genderqueer and trans people of color in LA, prevent disappearances in Bogotá, Colombia, help provide safety for sex workers in Toronto and facilitate queer youth of color to avoid violence in Detroit. Autonets is fashion hacking for social reorganization, recoding the meaning of fashion symbols such as hoodies that have associations ranging from Trayvon Martin to the Black Bloc, or femme fashion elements like dresses and bracelets, into symbols of connectivity and autonomy.
http://autonets.org
More about GJLA:
Gender Justice LA is building a strong grassroots multi-racial coalition of transgender people and allies to advocate for our rights, win concrete improvements in our lives, and challenge oppression.
Are you ready to help us transform Los Angeles?
http://www.gjla.org/
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DETAILED CONTACT, SCHEDULE, and LOCATION/TRANSPORTATION INFO:
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Save the dates for our upcoming free T.O. workshops: Sunday, February 17, 2-5pm--THIS SUNDAY Sunday, March 3, 2-5pm Saturday, March 9, time TBA (tentative) Sunday, March 10, 2-5pm (tentative) Sunday, March 17, 2-5pm Sunday, March 24, 2-5pm Sunday, March 31, 2-5pm Sunday, April 7, 2-5pm Saturday, April 13, time TBA
Location and Transportation Details for the Labor/Community Strategy Center:
The address is 3780 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1200, Los Angeles, CA 90010 (nearest cross-street is Western Ave) in Koreatown. We'll be on the 12th floor. There is a window to a security guard who will let you in. If you don't see the guard, there's a phone number to call to be let in. Let them know you're going to the 12th floor, to the Strategy Center for the Gender Justice LA TO workshop.
Good public transit options are the Wilshire/Western purple line stop, the Big Blue Bus Rapid 7, and the 720 LA Metro bus. If you're driving, there is free street parking (don't forget to read the signs!) or some lower-cost validated parking (1.5 hours free with purchase from Ralphs, 2 hours free with purchase from Novel Cafe) at the parking structure on Wilshire/Western.
As always, email us with any questions or concerns or call Ezak at the GJLA office at 323-960-9279.
Please help Gender Justice LA get the word out about our Gender Justice LA Theatre of the Oppressed workshop series? We need help blasting this flyer (to trans/gender non-conforming/genderqueer/youth/poc/ally communities) and getting people involved in our Dignity & Justice Campaign! Please REBLOG through email, Facebook and on all other social media sites. You can also pick up flyers at our next Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) session: THIS SUNDAY, February 10th from 2-5pm. Location TBD (to be determined). Lastly, if you know of a space we could hold our group this Sunday, please contact me at [email protected] or at [email protected] ASAP! Thanks!
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LA is heading to the Bay! Our Gender Justice LA Theatre of the Oppressed group is taking our "Know Yo Rights" workshop to this years Transgender Leadership Summit!!! For more info on Theatre of the Oppressed or if you'd like to get involved please contact gjla.theatreoftheoppressed at gmail.com, ezak at gjla.org or call 323-960-9279.