TRANS-FEST.
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About the Event:
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TransFest 2023 is an initiative, to be celebrated each year, which seeks to influence our society in an authentic way using music, art, and culture as a way to assert our identities and connect positively with the community at large. The struggle for resistance and resilience of our human rights as TransGNB, Sex Workers, and diverse gender and gender expansive people and with gender-diverse identities in NYC has been amplified by the lack of exposure to the human side of our community.
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We consider it of utmost importance and urgency to make visible, educate, and empower our communities, and above all build safe, cultural and visible spaces, thus be able to project in Queens, the importance of respect and recognition of lives.
The event gears to empower TransGNB, Sex Workers, and diverse gender and gender expansive people and with gender-diverse identities in NYC as well as sensitize our local community about the challenges that Transgender people face, such as, severe discrimination, stigma and symmetric inequality, lack of legal protection, poverty, harassment and stigma, anti-transgender violence, barriers to medical care, among many others.
About the organizer:
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Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo is an organization that works to promote and defend human rights and access to comprehensive health care for TransGNB, QBIPOC and Sex Workers, by strengthening the social and cultural expression of diverse gender and gender expansive, and intersex communities in New York City, we seek to guarantee our well-being and the right to a life free from all types of violence. We promote trans-specific, trans inclusive and trans-directed initiatives to the strengthening, empowerment and full exercise of their rights, allowing us to express and decide autonomously of our bodies and gender identities, and becoming a catalyst to end any form of discrimination.
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Overall objective:
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To strengthen and consolidate the social factor directly affecting TransGNB, Sex Workers, and diverse gender and gender expansive people and with gender-diverse identities in NYC, through strategies of social integration, information, education, and political advocacy, allowing us to visualize the realities lived by TransGNB people and with gender-diverse identities to influence the construction of policies, plans, programs, projects, and studies where our community can be seen, recognized, and included.
To request an accommodation for this event, please contact transfest@ourvoicesarefree.org by July 25.
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