#qi2: 2015 Queering Immigration Conference (PHOTOS).

The second annual #QueeringImmigration Conference was at the the New School in New York City.

According to the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP) “#qi2: Queering Immigration Conference is the largest gathering of LGBTQI immigrants/previously detained/asylum seekers, organizers, service providers, legal workers, healthcare providers, community healers, and more in the world. The conference topics range from asylee/asylum seeker issues, Know Your Rights trainings, the policing of our communities, Detention/Prison Divestment, HIV/AIDS, detention systems, solitary confinement, Transwomen Empowerment, how to organize systems of resistance, messaging, social media, life- post detention, refugees, alternative- to- detention building, program development, funding strategies/ workshops, skill shares, legal, and healing.”

Friday, August 28, 2015.

Saturday, August 29, 2015.

#qi2 Conference Sessions:

Friday, August 28, 2015.

7am – 8am
Yoga for survivors
8am – 9am
Registration and Breakfast
9:00am – 10:30am
Fear of a (Queer, Immigrant) Muslim Planet
Detention 101
De-Programming Religious Homophobia for SOGI Asylum Seekers

10:30am – 12:00pm
BREAK
11:45pm – 1:15pm
Values-Based Framing and Narrative on Criminal Justice
Criminalization of LGBTQ people: Research, Strategies & Campaigns for Change
Don’t Believe The Hype; There IS Worker Protection for Undocumented Workers

1:15pm – 2:30pm
LUNCH
2:30pm – 4:00pm
Immigrant TWOC Activist Panel
How to get away with Borders: Bringing Justice, Action, and Healing to Previously Deported Families and Refugees Trans-Nationally
Mundo De Sabores (Español)

4:00pm – 7:00pm
DIRECT ACTION
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Organizer Mixer

Saturday, August 29, 2015.

8am – 9am
Yoga for survivors
9am – 10am
Registration and Breakfast
10:00am – 11:30am
A Narrative from the MENA Region: The Solitary Confinement Experience, Queering a Radical Emancipatory Project
University Support for Undocuqueers
Caminando con Jesús, El Inmigrante: A Queer-Liberationist Reading of Walking with Jesus, The Migrant
Healing Space

11:30am – 11:45am
BREAK
11:45am – 1:15pm
National Dysfunction / Local Action: New York City’s Response LGBTQ Immigrants
Case Management 101
Christianity & Trans Faith
Healing Space

1:15pm – 2:30pm
LUNCH
2:30pm – 4:00pm
Abolition Framework for Ending All Detention – A United Front to Win
BREAK THE CAGES: Undocumented Queer and Trans Prison Abolition
Its Time for that Talk: The Black Church and queerness
Healing Space

4:00pm – 5:30pm
La Batalla de No Saber las Verdades Sobre el VIH / The Battle of Not Knowing the Truths about HIV (English & Español)
Demystifying Immigration Relief
Undocuqueers seeking housing in an already broken system: A SURVIVORS GUIDE
Healing Space

7:00pm – 9:00pm
Opening Plenary & #qi2 Party

Sunday, August 30, 2015.

8am – 9am
Registration and Breakfast
9am – 1015am
How to Mobilize Broader Communities around LGBTQ Migrant Justice
Our People are Not For Sale: Fighting Mass Incarceration Through Private Prison Divestment
Health, Housing, and Safety: A Systemic Cultural Shift in Accessing Services for Undocu-trans Community
Control: Race, Criminalization, Detentions, and Queer Migrations

10:15am – 11:45am
Identifying Anti-Blackness
#BreakTheCage: Ending Trans and Queer Detention
It is Possible to Repudiate All Allegiances: Building a Blueprint for Immigrant Rights Outside of the State and it’s Violence
Healing Space

11:45am – 1:15pm
LUNCH
1:15pm-3:00pm
The Dominican-Haitian Human Rights Crisis & Transqueer Identities
Sex Worker Rights, Undocuqueers, and the State
UndocuArt: Creating Counternarratives
Healing Space

3:00pm- 3:30pm
Closing Plenary

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