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Building Power at the Intersections
REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE,
TRANSGENDER JUSTICE,
AND IMMIGRANT JUSTICE
Western States Center, Data Center, & Transgender Law Center | February 17, 2016
Agenda1. Welcome and introductions
2. Webinar logistics
3. Project background
4. Findings from our research
5. Next Steps
6. Questions
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Creating Shared LanguageJustice: Is the lived experience of equality.
Rights: legal rules on what is allowed of people or owed to people.
Creating Shared LanguageImmigrant Justice: When people from any nation can move freely across
borders without fear of discrimination, persecution, economic and social repression or state violence.
Reproductive Justice: Having the economic, political and cultural power and resources to make healthy decisions over their own bodies, families and communities. It is when all individuals and families in all communities thrive.
Transgender Justice: When all people can identify and express their gender as who they are and have the economic, political and cultural power and resources to make healthy decisions over their own bodies, families and communities, while living free from discrimination and violence based on gender identity or expression.
Intersectional Organizing: The understanding that identities (like race, gender, class) and systems of oppression (like racism, patriarchy, and classism) are all interconnected and developing strategies and visions that address the connections.
Background
Recognized need to work together◦ our organizations
◦ our people
◦ our issues
Background: our organizationsWSC: grassroots movement building
TLC: policy advocacy
DataCenter: social justice research
Background: our peoplemarginalized groups
community leaders
resourceful, but low-resource
Shared ValuesFamily
Body Sovereignty
Opportunity
Access
Dignity
Health
Values Example: FamilyImmigrant Justice movement: Talk about keeping families together.
Transgender justice Movement: Talk about wanting to be able to support themselves and their families without discrimination based on who they are.
Reproductive Justice Movement: Talk about getting to decide when and how they become a parent and size of families.
Background: our issues body autonomy
state recognition/state violence
access to care
right wing attacks:
Our Research |Method: Landscape Scan
• Describe the landscape of organizations and groups that are affected by gender oppression and are seeking to advance gender and reproductive justice as part of their work;
• Identify legislative, policy, and environmental threats to communities at the intersection of their reproductive lives and gender identities;
• Identify opportunities for transgender justice, immigrant justice, and reproductive justice organizations to collaboratively disrupt and dismantle these threats and potentially shift individual, institutional, cultural, and/or systemic sites of struggle.
40 organizations
in 11 states!
Who did we interview?
Some large: Budget size $900K
to over $2 million
(e.g. Planned Parenthood, statewide equality orgs like One
Colorado and Equality Nevada)
Some small: Budget size $300K
or less. Few staff/no staff.
(e.g. Trans Women of Color Collective (NM), Transactive in
Oregon, Familia Utah Chapter)
• Nearly 23% < $75,000 annual budget.
• 15% between $100K and $300K
Organization Size
Public Education
Policy Advocacy
Direct Service
Direct Action
Organizing Models
Right-Wing Attacks and
Policies
Similar Challenges, Common Root Issues
Access to health care and
coverage
Similar Challenges, Common Root Issues
Violence
Similar Challenges, Common Root Issues
Criminal Justice System
Similar Challenges, Common Root Issues
Economic
Insecurity
Similar Challenges, Common Root Issues
1. Increased infrastructure stability for organizations working at the state and local level
2. Communications strategies that resonate across diverse communities
3. Strengthen leadership development programs at the state level
4. Align the vision for long-term work through deep political education
Needs and Resources
Next Steps: strategies for organizing at the intersectionsCreate spaces for communities to engage in the work;
Support organizations through leadership development, capacity building, and base-building training;
Support and build on our partners’ existing political campaigns on the administrative, state, and federal level
Gender Equity Network
“A RISING TIDE LIFTS ALL BOATS”-JFK
Gender Equity NetworkMulti-Year
Multi-State
Intersecting Justice Movements
Cohort
We Anticipate Launching in Summer of 2016
Goals & OutcomesFoster an environment where TJ, IJ, RJ organizations have a stronger understanding of justice frameworks and alignment on the issues we face and have the power, capacity, tools, and skills needed to make change at the individual, cultural, and institutional levels.
Goals & OutcomesAlign vision and values of participating organizations to support effective work at the individual, cultural, institutional levels.
JUSTICE!
Goals & OutcomesFacilitate a peer network across participant organizations to strengthen collaborative learning, find diverse community-driven solutions, and create more sustainable social justice organizing work.
Goals & OutcomesDevelop and nurture the leadership of grassroots organizations and leaders through technical assistance to apply cohort learning.
Goals & OutcomesCreate curriculum and best practices that can be applied in other state, political, and geographic landscapes.
What Happens Next?Program Development
Fundraising
Develop Criteria for Organizational Application
Recruit for Cohort
Launch First Cohort with 1st Convening in Summer 2016
Questions?
Anand KalraHealth Programs [email protected] ext. 305
Owen SmithCapacity Building [email protected](503) 893-3810
Connie Wun, Ph.D.Director of Community Driven [email protected]