#qi3: 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.
We are proud to announce that the #qi3 keynote speaker will be:
Ana Oliveira of New York Women's Foundation
This year, #qi has become an international conference. We hope that you forward this information along to your international comrades that are interested in bu...
#qi3: 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.
We are proud to announce that the #qi3 keynote speaker will be:
Ana Oliveira of New York Women's Foundation
This year, #qi has become an international conference. We hope that you forward this information along to your international comrades that are interested in building support systems for LGBTQi migrants coming to their countries.
If you can pay more, we encourage you to do so-- the additional funding provides assistances for asylees/previously detained/undocumented folks to attend to conference. All sessions are all bilingual and all spaces are accessible.
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SCHEDULE:
Friday, May 6th
8am – 9am
Yoga for survivors
9am – 10am
Registration and Breakfast // Registro y Desayuno
10:00am – 11:00am
Undocuqueers Seeking Housing: Identifying Challenges to Access
LGBT Asylum and Experiences in Immigration Detention
Healing Space (Espacio de sanación)
11:15am – 12:15pm
Undocuqueers Seeking Housing: A Community Roundtable Discussion for Making Change
The Public Health and Human Right Implication of the Same Sex Marriage Act. Case Study of the Nigerian Immigrants in the USA
Healing Space (Espacio de sanación)
12:15pm – 1:15pm
LUNCH // ALMUERZO
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Identifying Anti-Blackness
Visions From Each Other: Artists collaborating together to create humane narratives
Healing Space (Espacio de sanación)
2:45pm – 3:45
The Impact of Religious Accommodations on Queer Immigrants
Direct Action/ KYR
Healing Space (Espacio de sanación)
4:00pm – 5:30pm
DIRECT ACTION // MANIFESTACIÓN
545pm- 645pm
AA/NA
7:00pm – 9:00pm
ORGANIZER MIXER // EVENTO SOCIAL
Keynote Speaker: Ana Oliveira, CEO and Executive Director of New York Women’s Foundation
Saturday, May 7th
8am – 9am
Yoga for survivors
9am – 10am
Registration and Breakfast // Registro y Desayuno
10:00am – 11:00am
Worker Cooperatives in Queer Immigrant Communities: A model for organizing and building power
Advance Directives Workshop, Organization: Diana Adams Law & Mediation, PLLC
Healing Space (Espacio de sanación)
Transgender and Transphobia in the Immigrant Community
11:15am – 12:15pm
UndocuQueer/Trans-ness As An Empowering Identity That Combats Capitalism
Strategies for Accessing Elected Officials
Healing Space (Espacio de sanación)
Bisexual Asylum - Then and Now
12:15pm – 1:15pm
LUNCH // ALMUERZO
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Santa Ana today, but where tomorrow? A National strategy session to shut down Trans Detention
Team Rainbow: Building Community with LGBTQ Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Chicago
Healing Space (Espacio de sanación)
Crimmigration System & Divestment
2:45pm – 3:45
Our histories follow us: Fighting the legacy of homophobia post- migration
Networking & Sensitizing Undocumented Communities
Healing Space (Espacio de sanación)
Community Lessons, Community Action: Stronger Together for LGBTIQ Asylum Seekers
4:00pm- 5:00pm
#BlackImmigrantLivesMatter : Why Immigration Justice is Part of Black Liberation
Support our comrades in cages: a guide to writing folks inside
OPEN BREAK OUT SESSION
OPEN BREAK OUT SESSION
5:00pm- 6:00pm
AA/NA
6:00pm – 10:00pm
#qi3 Awards // FIESTA DE #qi2 – Room UL105
Sunday, May 8th
9am – 10am
Registration and Breakfast // Registro y Desayuno
10am – 11:00am
Organizing Black Queer Immigrants
Trans & Queer Freedom: Resisting the Capitalist Industrial State
Therapeutic Watercolor Session, Project Art
Using Storytelling and the Media for Justice, Not Pity
11:15am – 12:15pm
Regional Breakouts- East Coast
Regional Breakouts- West Coast
Regional Breakouts- Midwest
Regional Breakouts- South
12:30pm- 1:30pm
#WomenFightICE
PUSHING BACK AGAINST TOXIC CIS MASCULINITY
1:45pm- 3:00pm
CLOSING PLENARY // EVENTO FINAL
Room UL105
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Be sure to come to the first annaul Queering Immigration Awards, get your tickets here! http://bit.ly/1Qev0CF
Contact qi@qdep.org if you have any questions/thoughts/concerns.
Follow us on twitter @qiconference and hashtag #qi3 for updates!