BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.6.3//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:94@srlp.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140421T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140421T210000 DTSTAMP:20140403T201752Z URL:https://srlp.org/events/reina-gossett-cece-mcdonald-and-dean-spade-at- barnard-center-for-research-on-women/ SUMMARY:Reina Gossett\, CeCe McDonald\, and Dean Spade at Barnard Center fo r Research on Women DESCRIPTION:"I Use My Love to Guide Me": Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Impossible Situations\nA conversation with CeCe McDonald\, Reina Gosse tt\, and Dean Spade\n\nGet your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/ e/cece-mcdonald-reina-gossett-and-dean-spade-tickets-11082426837\n\nEvent information\, videos\, and resources available on bcrw.barnard.edu\n\nIn 2 011\, CeCe McDonald was a fashion design student at Minneapolis Community and Technical College when while walking to a grocery store\, she and her friends were attacked by a group of white people shouting racist and trans phobic slurs. When CeCe fatally stabbed one of their attackers in self def ense\, she was arrested and eventually imprisoned for 19 months. As she aw aited trial and experienced incarceration\, the Transgender Youth Support Network in Minnesota created the Free CeCe campaign\, inspiring an int ernational community of activists to support CeCe and rally for her freedo m. Throughout\, CeCe updated community members with her evocative and thou ghtful writing on police brutality\, transphobia\, homophobia\, racism\, a nd the power of love against systems of injustice.\n\nRecently\, CeCe join ed prison abolition activists Reina Gossett and Dean Spade in a conversati on about her own experiences surviving trauma and impossible situations\, and the importance of collective organizing for people facing systems of v iolence. Video of this conversation will be available onbcrw.barnard.edu  in April. On April 21\, CeCe\, Reina\, and Dean will share excerpts from t heir discussion and continue the conversation\, responding to questions fr om the audience and online. Join us to support CeCe and the continued push for an end to the prison system and the institutionalized structures of v iolence throughout our society which support it.\n\nThis event is part of the series No One is Disposable\, which features conversations on trans a ctivism and prison abolition with BCRW activist fellow Reina Gossett. Co-s ponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on Women\, the Office of Soc ial Justice Initiatives at The New School\, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project \, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU\, and the Cen ter for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School.\n\nCeCe McDonald  is an activist living in Minneapolis\, Minnesota. She is a creative and energetic person who\, before her life was so unjustly interrupted\, was s tudying fashion design at MCTC. She had a stable home where she lived with and helped support four other African American youth\, her family. CeCe ’s family describes her as a leader\, a role model\, and a loyal friend. She is known as a wise\, out-spoken\, and welcoming person\, with a histo ry of handling prejudice with amazing grace. She is currently working with actress Laverne Cox and director Jac Gares on a documentary about her exp erience.\n\nReina Gossett lives in Fort Greene\, Brooklyn and believes cr eativity &\; imagination are vital in movements for self determination. She is a trans activist &\; artist\, working as membership director at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and blogging at reinagossett.com. Reina’ s work has been featured in BCRW’s The Scholar &\; Feminist Online\, as well as Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment &\; The Prison Industr ial Complex. She is an activist fellow at BCRW.\n\nDean Spade is the foun der of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project\, author of Normal Life: Administrat ive Violence\, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of the Law\, and an associate professor at Seattle University School of Law. He is currently a fellow in the Engaging Tradition Project at Columbia Law School.\n\nCheck out this great conversation between CeCe McDonald\, Reina Gossett and SRL P collective member Dean Spade! They will be doing an in person event with  Barnard Center for Research on Women on April 21st at the New School!\n \nhttp://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/i-use-my-love-to-guide-me-cece-mcdonald-re ina-gossett-dean-spade/ CATEGORIES:SRLP Collective/Staff Appearances LOCATION:New School Auditorium\, 66 West 12th Street \, New York\, NY\, 100 11\, United States GEO:40.7355533;-73.99437419999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=66 West 12th Street \, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=New School Au ditorium:geo:40.7355533,-73.99437419999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20140309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR