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Looking for ways to #resist and show #solidarity this month? Here are some actions coming up (US based):Mon, 3/17, 7pm ET: Gender Liberation...

Looking for ways to #resist and show #solidarity this month? Here are some actions coming up (US based):

Mon, 3/17, 7pm ET:
Gender Liberation Movement
Mass Call bit.ly/GLMCALL2

Wed, 3/19, 8:30pm ET: #TeslaTakedown Mass Mobilization Call
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/teslatakedown-national-mobilizing-call/

Thu, 3/20, 6pm ET: 347 Lincoln Rd, Brooklyn, March and Rally to Stop Eviction with Equality for Flatbush

Thu, 3/20, 11:59pm ET: literal last minute to submit a comment on any of the proposed anti-trans passport form changes (one closes Monday) #FreedomtoFly
https://transequality.org/news/freedom-fly-passport-access-action

Fri, 3/21, 5pm ET: #Repro Kit Party 101 Virtual Training w Florida Access Network https://events.flaccessnetwork.org/a/repro-kit-party-101-virtual-training-2

Sun, 3/23, join a local rally to defend the post office, https://www.nalc.org/news/fight-like-hell

Sat, 3/29, 11am ET, World Health Network welcome meeting
https://whn.global/welcome/

Sat, 3/29, 5pm ET, #TDOV Broward DSA resource swap in Margate, FL
bit.ly/TDOVswap

Sun, 3/30, 4pm ET, Another World Is Possible Drop In Space--an informal accountability group for people who want to take consistent community action.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/another-world-is-possible-drop-in-space-march-tickets-1257606989359

Sun, 3/30, 7pm ET, Queer Eid Open Mic and Fundraiser for MASGD
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/qhGwhfCSSWSXRpZZR_aUzA#/registration

Mon, 3/31, 4pm ET: #TDOV #Trans Day of Visibility Rally at the Mall in DC
https://www.mobilize.us/csp/event/757203/

3/31, 6:30pm ET: TDOV at in Wilton Manors, FL
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transgender-day-of-visibility-tickets-1225431581849

3/31, 7pm ET, Eid Party and Fundraiser for HEART,
https://heartwomenandgirls-bloom.kindful.com/e/heart-eid-party

Last week, you all showed up for Jacinda, making calls to get her out of solitary--and now she's out! This week, we need you all to make...

Last week, you all showed up for Jacinda, making calls to get her out of solitary--and now she's out!

This week, we need you all to make called for Niara, a trans Muslimah, who has not been getting Suhoor meals or any other religious accommodation during #Ramadan.

Email: ra-contactdoc@pa.gov; mandreetti@pa.gov
Call: (724) 852-2902 and ask to speak to the chaplain or superintendent

Say: Hi, I'm reaching out because I understand that Niara aka Herman Burton KU1265 has not been getting the suhoor bag. She needs accommodations to allow her to observe Ramadan this year. Can you please make sure she gets everything she needs?

Check out our guide to WTF is going on! Info on a few of the changes in the US from the last week and tips for staying safe, showing up, and...

Check out our guide to WTF is going on! Info on a few of the changes in the US from the last week and tips for staying safe, showing up, and taking action. #trans #prison #abolition #resist #HealthJustice https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MDwlOChGnOD1SGD4VpI64fAWfyiTwp5ih7GNbHn3Z60/edit?usp=sharing

Can you help us reach our goal? We're starting a sustainer drive. You can help us share the brilliant of incarcerated trans people and...

Can you help us reach our goal? We're starting a sustainer drive. You can help us share the brilliant of incarcerated trans people and cis women across prison walls by hitting the "make it monthly" button when you donate! And if you do, you can subscribe to our new publication The Bolt Cutter: Transfeminist Tools Against the Fascist Creep.

Check it out! https://tinyurl.com/w74wpk37
Donate! https://tinyurl.com/ARCGiving
And subscribe! https://tinyurl.com/yvuf5r76

Hi ARC friends, join us JUNE 23 from 11 am - 2 pm at GAY riis beach for our ARC gender justice queer beach party and fundraiser! Learn more...

Hi ARC friends, join us JUNE 23 from 11 am - 2 pm at GAY riis beach for our ARC gender justice queer beach party and fundraiser! Learn more about our work supporting the brilliant legal and other work of trans folks and cis women inside prisons who are survivors of gender based violence. On the outside, we, also survivors (but mostly not of the pic) are privileged to be able to rage and rise up in solidarity with our friends on the inside who lead the global struggle for social justice! Swim with us, become a sponsor, donate if you can and share widely! https://tinyurl.com/ArcAtRiis #AbolitionNow #Pride

Dumpling says, “Question everything you think you know about Testosterone. Then pet a cat and take a nap.” #Caturday

Dumpling says, “Question everything you think you know about Testosterone. Then pet a cat and take a nap.” #Caturday

It's the first day of #pride month, and one of our newest members, Ashley, is asking us to mobilize! “I have gender dysphoria and live...

It's the first day of #pride month, and one of our newest members, Ashley, is asking us to mobilize! “I have gender dysphoria and live my life as a woman in a men’s prison. I have for 7 or 8 years been trying to get facial hair removal. Having to shave my face every 3 days, even being on HRT, is messing with my already fragile mental health. I feel so helpless and hopeless. They refuse me this gender affirming treatment over and over.” Let's show up for Ashley!https://tinyurl.com/Act4Ashley

Spread the word--free #pride gift bags to queer cis women and trans and nonbinary people who are formerly incarcerated or court involved in...

Spread the word--free #pride gift bags to queer cis women and trans and nonbinary people who are formerly incarcerated or court involved in NY, GA, FL, or PA! Reserve yours online or just stop by our booth at Brooklyn Pride or party on Riis Beach June 23. https://linktr.ee/arcgenderjustice #AbolitionNow

Join ARC Gender Justice and Lighthouse Learning Collective this Wednesday, May 8, at 12pm ET for a webinar introducing our guide to...

Join ARC Gender Justice and Lighthouse Learning Collective this Wednesday, May 8, at 12pm ET for a webinar introducing our guide to navigating access to gender-affirming hormone! Learn tips to stay medically and legally safer while getting the care you need despite shortages, bans, and other barriers. US focus, but medical info relevant anywhere.

Register at bit.ly/LLCGAHTWebinar
Check out the guide at https://lnkd.in/edyB6hCU

One of our members in prison, Nadirah Ali (Tracey Shaw, OD4315), has chronic pain. They changed her pain regimen recently, and she has been...

One of our members in prison, Nadirah Ali (Tracey Shaw, OD4315), has chronic pain. They changed her pain regimen recently, and she has been in such severe pain since then that she rarely leaves her cot. She needs better pain management--and help with the underlying issues. She's asked us to reach out to the healthcare administrator at SCI Muncy--can you join in? lblairmorr@pa.gov, 570-546-3171

Check out ARC's Black History Month reading list! 1. Wake by Rebecca Hall. This graphic novel describes women-led slave revolts,...

Check out ARC's Black History Month reading list!
1. Wake by Rebecca Hall. This graphic novel describes women-led slave revolts, primarily on the slave ships of the middle passage--as well as the process of uncovering this history. “The women used their relative mobility and access to weapons to plan and initiate revolt after revolt after revolt.“
2. Black on Both Sides by C. Riley Snorton. Black Trans history but also so much more--a a Black history of gender, a Trans history of race. Writing is dense, but so worth it. “My analysis here is invested in reviving and inventing strategies for inhabiting unlivable worlds.”
3. A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing by DaMaris B. Hill. Poetry, mixed with prose and photos, remembering incarcerated African American women from U.S. history.
“i say
you, a woman the color of wet sienna,
who wore the truth
as radiant as you? “
4. Everfair by Nisi Shawl. Alternate history of pluralist, queer, steampunk resistance to Belgium’s genocidal colonization of Congo. “Well then, do we truly need to discuss how I ought to present these offers? Peace or war? Freedom or bondage? Our answer is obvious.”
5. That the Blood Stay Pure by Arica Coleman. Painful history of African American / Native American relations in the context of Virginia’s effort to maintain “racial purity.” “By the dawn of the Jim Crow era, the colonial imposition of American Indian identity based on the absence of African ancestry would further exacerbate antagonism...”
6. Song in a Weary Throat by Pauli Murray. One of Murray’s memoirs, chronicling some of their brilliant efforts for racial and gender justice. “I was part of a tradition of continuous struggle, lasting nearly twenty years, to open the doors of the state university to Negroes.”
7. Miss Major Speaks by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major. An unforgettable series of interviews with Miss Major Griffin-Gracy about her life, work, communities, and vision. "The 99% of statues that celebrate one person, it’s bullshit. Those people didn’t get to do anything great without a damn crowd of people they worked with to get there.”
8. How Long ‘Til Black Future Month by NK Jemisin. Short story collection offering magical visions of Black pasts, futures, this world, and other worlds. "She understands why so many people hate her now. By existing, she reminds them of their smallness.”
9. The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe. Fierce collaboratively written sci fi offering visions of Black queer genderfuck musical resistance to colonization of our memories. “You were working to protect your own, but you decided everyone who didn’t fit your womanhood wasn’t worth protecting. Including me I guess, because I damn sure don't.”
10. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. A Himba harmonizer travels to an intergalactic university, copes with trauma and transformation. ”We sat in my room and challenged each other to look out at the stars and imagine the most complex equation and then split it in half and then in half again and again.”
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackFutureMonth

Please show up for Miley and advocate for her to get moved back to a block where she was safe enough to leave her cell! Call and write:(724)...

Please show up for Miley and advocate for her to get moved back to a block where she was safe enough to leave her cell!

Call and write:(724) 852-2902, mzaken@pa.gov,
then (717) 728-2573, ra-contactdoc@pa.gov

Ask for Miley Fletcher (Eric Wolfgang #BZ2211) to be transferred back to Block A in SCI Greene- where she can be safer and less isolated.

Then report back! https://linktr.ee/arcgenderjustice

#AbolitionNow #trans #prison

Mr. Ronnie Fuller, a transgender male in prison in Georgia, has been trying to get surgery since 2017. Georgia Department of Corrections...

Mr. Ronnie Fuller, a transgender male in prison in Georgia, has been trying to get surgery since 2017. Georgia Department of Corrections keeps delaying and saying some other doctor or committee is “reviewing” his request. Call (404) 656-4661 and write Assistant Commissioner Randy Sauls, 300 Patrol Road, Forsyth, GA 31029. "I am calling about Ronnie Fuller, 1150199. Please get him a response to his requests for gender-affirming top surgery right away. https://gdc.georgia.gov/contact-us

ARC has endorsed the March for Gaza on January 13 at 1pm at the National Mall in DC. Info on buses and more at march4gaza.org/.COVID rates...

ARC has endorsed the March for Gaza on January 13 at 1pm at the National Mall in DC. Info on buses and more at march4gaza.org/.

COVID rates are very high right now. We recommend everyone wear a well-fitted mask on the bus and at the protest—it can reduce risk of COVID and other contagious illnesses for you and others, foil facial recognition from those who may want to doxx or surveil you, and help slightly with tear gas (you would need an actual gas mask for full protection there). If you need a KN95 mask, DM or email us with your mailing address, and we’ll stick a couple in the mail for you. And for those who can’t be in the streets, remember there are tons of other ways to take action—check out this digital action toolkit from the Palestinian Feminist Collective for ideas. palestinianfeministcollective.org/all-out-for-palestine/

If you're in NYC, please join us Friday for a Palestine jummah action at the Stonewall National Monument, 11:30-1. It's queer Muslim...

If you're in NYC, please join us Friday for a Palestine jummah action at the Stonewall National Monument, 11:30-1. It's queer Muslim organized, open to people of all sexual orientations and faiths.

It isn't always easy to ask for financial support in our culture, but we're excited about what your support has helped us to do so...

It isn't always easy to ask for financial support in our culture, but we're excited about what your support has helped us to do so far, and we need your support again to keep going and do even more! Read the words of a few of our advisory board members here, then please head over to https://tinyurl.com/ARCGiving to give as generously as you can--and spread the word! There are lots of amazing orgs out there, but if you are invested in a gender justice movement that puts incarcerated survivors first, and if you want a legal and policy strategy for trans, LGBQ, reproductive and women's rights that supports the power of our incarcerated leaders and jailhouse lawyers, ARC Gender Justice should make your list. Thank you so much!
And for those who don't like paypal or want to make sure we get your full donation without processing fees, you can always mail a check to our fiscal sponsor--just be extra sure to put ARC Gender Justice on the memo line.
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs
23564 Calabasas Road, Suite 201
Calabasas, CA 91302

"I fear that our rightful reticence to invoke an inappropriate Nazi analogy has rendered us incapable of calling out instances of...

"I fear that our rightful reticence to invoke an inappropriate Nazi analogy has rendered us incapable of calling out instances of actual Nazi ideology." https://religiondispatches.org/with-vermin-remark-trump-crosses-fully-into-nazi-territory/

It’s Day 5 of our Week of Action–and today we’re sharing learning! As they cut off communication in Gaza and strip LGBTQ and...

It’s Day 5 of our Week of Action–and today we’re sharing learning! As they cut off communication in Gaza and strip LGBTQ and anti-racist books from libraries, curricula, and prisons in Florida and beyond, we owe it to ourselves and each other to seek out and share the dreams, histories, and narratives that nurture our spiritual and political growth.
1) ARC member Nadirah Ali has had to work hard to make sure that she and other Muslims–most of them Black women– can practice their faith in women’s prisons in Pennsylvania, often fighting restrictions on observing Ramadan or praying jummah. Right now she needs our help with donations to her facility’s religious library. It has almost no Islamic books aside from the Qur’an. We’ve teamed up with the Feminist Islamic Troublemakers of North America (FITNA) to create a wish list of emancipatory, woman-centered, and feminist Islamic books–please check it out and send whatever you can! tinyurl.com/MuncyBooks
2) Support bookmobiles bringing queer and banned books to people in states with mounting censorship https://campaigns.moveon.org/banned-bookmobile/
3) Learn more about Gaza https://skindeepmag.com/seasons/palestine-ways-of-being/
4) Follow and signal boost trans, queer, and feminist Palestinian, Jewish, Black, Armenian, and Indigenous Turtle Island voices. https://tinyurl.com/DecolonialSocial
#BannedBooks #Muslim

It's Day 4 of our Week of Action--and today we're sharing love and building connections. So many people are hurting right now....

It's Day 4 of our Week of Action--and today we're sharing love and building connections. So many people are hurting right now. Let’s share some support and encouragement.
1) Send notes of encouragement to ARC member Rayne Vylette who was picked up on a parole violation and hit with the longest possible sentence on her original charges. She needs supportive messages from the community as she faces down more years in prison–write her at Robert Dziekan, X86984, 7000 H C Kelley Rd., Orlando, FL 32831-2518 or on securus.
2) Our friends at Let’s Get Free are calling for folks to send encouraging messages to Betty, who was just denied commutation at age 83. You can write her at Betty Heron #006917, SCI-Cambridge Springs, Smart Communications/PA DOC, PO Box 33028, St. Petersburg, FL 33733 or ConnectNetwork.
3) Share general messages of love and support for trans people on social with the hashtag #TransPeopleAreLoved.
4) Share beautiful art for #Palestine online, in your window, or on the street.
http://bit.ly/Pal-Art
https://transpeopleareloved.com/

It's Day 3 of our Week of Action! Today, we encourage folks to hold accountable the companies that profit from prisons, policing,...

It's Day 3 of our Week of Action! Today, we encourage folks to hold accountable the companies that profit from prisons, policing, occupation, imperialist war, borders, and genocide.
1) Contact the companies insuring or funding Cop City and tell them to #CutTheContract to #StopCopCity.
-Correll Insurance: Kyle Ruf, COO: 615-446-2814
-Cadence Bank: CEO James “Dan” Rollins: 662-680-2008
-Nationwide: Amy Shore, VP: 614-249-9686
2) Stop investing in or buying from companies complicit in violations of Palestinian rights, and let them know why. Here are some to start with: AHA, Ahava, Boeing, Elbit Systems, IBM, General Dynamics, GE, HP, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Puma, Raytheon, Sabra, Siemens, and Sodastream. #BDS #FreePalestine #Peace
https://www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org/callnow
https://investigate.afsc.org/
https://gazaunlocked.org/resources/2021/us-corporations-complicit-military-attacks-gaza
https://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott