A dance party benefit for the Write to Win Collective and TJLP!
Monday January 18, 2010
CHANCES DANCES (at the Subterranean)
DJ’s Nina Ramone, Butch Cassidy and Owen DMC!
2011 W North Ave, Chicago IL
10pm-2am
*Bake sale!
*Raffle!
*Much much more!
This event is 21+
Free admission! (Donations for Write to Win and TJLP accepted inside).
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The Write to Win Collective is a Chicago-based penpal project for transgender, transsexual, gender self-determining, and gender-variant people who are living and surviving inside Illinois prisons. Members of the Write to Win Collective are radical trans, queer, and ally activists, youth workers, social workers, writers, lawyers, and community organizers working in solidarity with prisoners by providing consistent support, friendship, resources, literature, and dialogue to people living on the inside in our communities. We stand firmly behind the values of transformative justice, gender self-determination, and prison abolition, and see these values as fundamental to our project.
The Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois (TJLP) is a collective of radical lawyers, social workers, activists, and community organizers who are deeply committed to prison abolition, transformative justice, and gender self-determination. We provide free, zealous, life-affirming, and gender-affirming holistic criminal legal services to low-income and street based transgender and gender non-conforming people targeted by the criminal legal system. We create and distribute information, resources, and training curriculum for lawyers and social service providers who work with people targeted by the criminal legal system. We use our attorney access and attorney-client relationships on the inside to listen to the wisdom of and respond to the needs of those locked up. We help distribute resources and connect people to their peers, friends, family, allies, advocates, and the larger prison abolition movement.
Chances is a dance party which functions to bring together the varied LGBTIQ communities of Chicago. Third Mondays at The Subterranean. Always free. All gender expressions welcome.
www.writetowin.wordpress.com
www.tjlp.org