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Juntos (1537 S. 6th St) will host My Existence Is Resistance: An Evening with Jennicet Gutiérrez, The Activist who Interrupted Obama on Friday November 16 at 6pm.
Jennicet is an undocumented trans Latina leader who came to the US from Mexico at the age of 15. She is a founding member of the national immigrant rights organization Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement and a leader in the national #Not1More deportation campaign.
On June 24, 2015 Jennicet interrupted President Obama at the White House Pride Celebration, 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.
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 loved ones, and how to fight back against the criminalization of immigrant and LGBTQ communities.
