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FREE CeCe!

The 2016 documentary directed by Jacqueline Gares and executive produced by Laverne Cox explores the culture of violence trans women of color face in their daily lives.

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After opening the Translations Film Festival, CeCe McDonald and Jacqueline Gares will visit UW to discuss their documentary, Free CeCe. Event is tentatively scheduled from 4-6PM in the ECC Unity Room. More updates coming soon!

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Exclusive: Interview with CeCe McDonald & Jacqueline Gares of 'Free CeCe'

At the Los Angeles Film Festival, we got to sit down and chat with Director Jacqueline Gares and CeCe McDonald about their film Free CeCe. We talked about transgender issues in America, the system of mass incarceration and Executive Producer Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black).  Obviously Cece’s story inspired the film, but what about CeCe made you…

Exclusive: Interview with CeCe McDonald & Jacqueline Gares of ‘Free CeCe’ was originally published on Hollywood News Source

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Upcoming episodes of "Orange Is the New Black" will portray some of what "CeCe" McDonald faced being a transgender woman living in a man’s prison.

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The most difficult thing about prison were the times (CeCe) McDonald was put in solitary confinement for her “safety” 23 hours a day. “It breaks you down,” said McDonald. “You think about how you are going to spend that one hour outside. Do you take a shower? Make phone calls? It kind of feels like you are the only person in the world.” In other words, a lot like being a transgender person…

––via abeautifultransition.com

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At the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation rally, Sylvia Rivera-one of the leaders of the Stonewall Riots and a founding force of the Pride movement-was greeted with boos and slurs when she took the stage. She had to physically stop other people from taking the microphone out of her hand. She spoke over the boos and jeers, speaking from a place of real anger at the violence she faced as a Trans-woman of color. By the end of her speech the crowd was drowning her voice out once again, but now cheering for her and her words of anger. Sylvia Rivera, along with Marsha P. Johnson and several other TWOC are the mothers of the pride movement. Rivera warned against a Pride movement that focused on wealthy, white, gay men. Today the largest organization working towards supposed LGBTQ+ rights is the Human Rights Campaign. In a recent diversity report conducted by the Pipeline Project, the HRC was found to be 52% male, 70% white, with only 4.7% of employees identifying as trans or non-binary. At this point I am going to drop a whole bunch of direct quotes from that report, some of which are quotes from HRC staffers themselves; “One of the most frequent concerns that rose was the sense of an organizational culture rooted in a white, masculine orientation which is judgmental of all those who don’t fit that mold…Disparate treatment toward women and those with ‘soft skills’ was frequently cited by staff — both men and women — and there is a sense that if you operate outside of that orientation, you will not be successful at HRC.” “More than half of multiracial and Latino people and 83% of genderqueer people feel they are not treated equally based on their identity.” “Younger staff in particular are exploited and not rewarded financially.” “Straight women and lesbians get sexist treatment from gay men at HRC.” “Seven out of 31 men who have been promoted have been on staff less than two years (some promoted two times). No women under two years have been promoted.” “[T]rans* people don’t feel safe to come out at HRC” “[T]rans* people are frequently misgendered with the wrong pronouns, after repeated corrections.” If she were still with us today, Sylvia Rivera would not recognize the movement she had started over 50 years ago. Not only that, she would be marginalized, ignored, mistreated, and silenced. The LGBTQ+ community has been torn into two camps, the mainstream Gay Pride camp and the Queer Liberation camp. Gay Pride has a long history of shutting out the voices of Trans people. lesbians, femme/non-masculine gay men, people of color, non-binary people, and even those who do not fit into the western standard of what is ‘sexy’. This has all been in an attempt to make the movement seem more ‘respectable’ in the eyes of the cis-straight mainstream. This is how Pride has made so many gains so quickly. So now I can marry whoever the hell I want, but in 34 of the 50 states in this country I can be fired, evicted, or beaten without any hope of legal recourse. Across the world TWOC are dying every day. They are being held in men’s prisons where they are virtually guaranteed to face extreme violence and hatred on an hourly basis; leaving them the impossible choice of remaining safe in solitary confinement or possibly remaining sane in general population. A 16 year-old trans-girl was held in SEG in a men’s prison for over a year without charges ever being brought against her. The people who assault us can use our very identity against us in court, saying we were trying to deceive them. CeCe McDonald was attacked by a transphobic man with White Supremacist symbols emblazoning his clothes and body. Those symbols, nor the drugs in his system, were ruled as inadmissible in CeCe’s murder trial. That’s right, she pulled a pair of sewing scissors from her purse-the only defense she had against the man who had already broken a glass of beer across her face-and simply held them in front of her as this man charged at her. He impaled himself and died on the scene. She was charged for murder because she availed herself of the human right to defend her own life. Pride is a sham. Pride claims to represent the communities it walks all over. The SCOTUS ruling on marriage equality is a tiny stumble forward for LGBTQ+ equality, but it is being celebrated like it’s the moon landing. This ruling was inevitable, not surprising or shocking. What would be surprising, what would be shocking, and what would actually benefit the entire community is an Employment Non-Discrimination Act, signed by both houses of Congress and the President, that offers protections from discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, race, economic background, and physical ability. And even that would just be a baby step forward.