Miss Major, Director of the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project (TGI J), discusses her personal history, activism, and development of the TGI Justice Project. She details the human rights violations and abuses experienced by transgender people both in and out of the prison system, and the support needed by the transgender community. Because gender variant and transgender individuals are housed according to their sex as assigned at birth, transgender women are regularly subjected to abuse and sexual violence within the prison system as the result of unsafe housing. After Miss Major’s talk, audience members pose questions about voting rights in prison, being transgender allies, and supporting those who are currently incarcerated.
Contributor | Contribuidor:
Center for Women's and Gender Studies, The University of Texas at Austin (Creator), Miss Major (Speaker), Richardson, Matt (Moderator), and Zarate, Andrea (Videographer)
moving image, conference proceedings, and conferencias
Extent | Alcance:
01 hours, 02 minutes, 27 seconds
Rights - Use & Reproduction | Derechos - uso & reproducción:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Language | Idioma:
English
Place of publication | Lugar de publicación:
Austin (Tex.)
Topic | Tema:
Activism, Activismo, Prison industrial complex, Complejo industrial penitenciario, Transgender human rights, and Derechos humanos transgénero
UTL DAMS PID:
hrdi:8e30e3e1-c9aa-4bbe-af7a-82037a194c92
Local Identifier| Identificador local :
rpr_2012_10_06_p4
Related Resource – Host | Recursos relacionados:
"Rethinking Power and Resistance: Gender and Human Rights from Texas to the Transnational Americas" Conference Footage (title) and https://txarchives.org/hrdi/finding_aids/00007.xml (uri)