SALDEF presents the fourth episode of the series Demystifying U.S. History and Activating Sikh Action for Black Justice Movements. The fourth episode, Fighting for Black Trans Lives In Liberation Movements aired September 13, 2020 at 8:00 PM EST.
In this episode, Chriss Sneed, Yaszmin Harris, Jamie Leeand, and prabhdeep singh kehal, will discuss how historical movements for justice have intersected with fighting for Black trans lives in these liberation movements. The panelists will consider how gender in relation to race has been used and constructed to control Black lives and, by extension, societies in the U.S. and global contexts. Specifically, the moderator and panelists will share how fighting gendered, transphobic, and sexual violence is linked to the same struggle that Black liberation movements have always fought against.
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September 13, 2020 at 8:00 PM EST – Fighting for Black Trans Lives In Liberation MovementsWith Chriss Sneed, Yaszmin Harris, Jamie Leeand, and prabhdeep singh kehal.
Chriss Sneed (they/them) is a Sociology Ph.D. Candidate at University of Connecticut, where their work focuses on Black LGBTQI activism, identity, world-making in the U.S. and Brazil. Chriss currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Audre Lorde Project, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area.
Jamie Lee is a Black Trans* women/femme who hails from the Bay Area. The exigency of her work looks to the way black trans* visual performance art, literature, poetics, and healing justice generates new theoretical and material forms of gathering, assembly, and congregating at the end of the world. Furthermore, how these practices curate new modes of collective and communal living in the lives of black women and femmes. Jamie comes a rich history of black feminist organizing and is devoted to the beautiful work that BFK seeks to mobilize for our community.
Yaszmin A. Harris is an Afro & Black American, Feminist, Woman of Trans experience, 38 years old, Feminine Pronouns; Community Organizer, Thespian & poet, cook & Student. Member of the Audre Lorde Project for 3 years. Member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project for 2 years. Member of the Trans Generational Theater Project for 2 years.
prabhdeep kehal is a writer, community scholar, and educator. As a sociologist and doctoral candidate at Brown University, prabhdeep researches how people and communities make knowledge about race and racism, and how they use this knowledge in their lives. They broadly question how colonialism persists within US higher education and, specifically, how these ideas about race are used in the processes of hiring, promotion, and defining merit (what counts as good) in education and academia. prabhdeep’s community work focuses on identifying and fighting how ideologies of white supremacy, anti-queerness, and gender conformity emerge in our lives, both within and outside the Sikh and Sikh-American diaspora.
To watch Episode I Colonial Uprisings and The Creation of “Race” / From the colonial period to the eve of Civil War with Dr. Nneka D. Dennie CLICK HERE
To watch Episode II Black Resistance and Continued Protest / From Civil War to Mandated Desegregation with Channon Miller PhD CLICK HERE
To watch Episode III Fighting for Civil Rights / From Liberation Movements to the Movement for Black Lives with Dr. Ashley Howard CLICK HERE
For more information on the series CLICK HERE
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