Repost: Casa Arcoíris: Community Resistance Among Militarized Borders - Tomorrow!
A Home for Justice and Dignity for Migrant LGBTQ+ Peoples
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This presentation will share work led by LGBTQ+ organizers in response to these challenges and our efforts to create life-affirming institutions. In particular the formation of Casa Arcoíris (CA) in Tijuana as a welcoming space for the LGBTIQ+ Migrant population. CA team members will discuss the principles that have guided their practice, how they operate on a day-to-today basis, the type of services they provide, the current context and needs of LGBTQ+ migrant communities, and the challenges they face as a non-profit organization challenging the on-going militarization and criminalization of our communities.
Thursday, November 14, 2024 · 4 - 5:30 PM
The Department of Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies presents:
Community Resistance Among Militarized Borders: Casa Arcoiris as a Home for Justice and Dignity for Migrant LGBTQ+ Peoples
The ongoing militarization of Kumeyaay territory, better known as the Tijuana-San Diego border region, since colonial and missionary times have attempted to define how we should understand race, indigeneity, sexual and gender expression and identity. The US and Mexican settler governments in this region have only prioritized creating institutions rooted in establishing a regime of power and control through the capitalization of natural resources, urban development, migrant exploitation and indigenous erasure.
Andrea Gaspar (Casa Arcoiris co-founder and board member) is a queer Mexican Ñuu Savi person born in San Diego and raised in Tijuana, Kumeyaay Territory. She is earning her PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University of California San Diego. Her current work focuses on the development of life-affirming institutions and community spaces centering the healing and autonomy of Indigenous, Black, migrant, queer and trans peoples. She has sixteen years of community and coalition organizing experience on education, racial, economic, environmental and housing justice.
Edith Méndez (Casa Arcoiris general coordinator) is a Social Work graduate with a community focus from the University of Guanajuato. Feminist, lesbian, IVE (Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy) companion, activist, and artist. She has collaborated with different civil associations and public institutions accompanying community organizational processes, attention to gender violence, community cultural management, and intervention with Indigenous migrant populations, LGBTIQ+, and women in vulnerable situations.
Posted: November 13, 2024, 2:59 PM