Proyección de LLÁMALA GANDA – Documental Premiado para La Semana Transgénero de Resiliación

FREE Spanish & English screening of award winning documentary CALL HER GANDA in honor of Trans Week of Resilience. #TWOR2019

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case–an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer’s mother)–galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.

Post screening panel discussion led by members of Diversidad Sin Fronteras Texas.

Diversidad Sin Fronteras Texas (DSFtx) organizes support for the roughly 25 asylum-seeking trans women in detention in Pearsall TX, just 2 hours south of Austin. DSFtx is aims to interrupt the particularly isolating and dehumanizing process of being detained that LGBTQ asylum-seekers face.

DSFtx is currently focused on 3 elements of support:

– Raising funds to provide monthly commissary to the detained trans women
– Hosting regular letter-writing parties
– Organizing detention center visits

For more information contact Diversidad Sin Fronteras Texas via email at: diversidadtexas@gmail.com

Contributions to commissary funds can be sent via
Venmo: @DSFTX or Paypal: diversidadtexas@gmail.com

Panelists include:

Mar Kidvai Padilla
Diversidad Sin Fronteras Texas Member Mar Kidvai Padilla is an organizer, educator, and service provider from Austin, TX with nearly 20 years working in intersecting social movements for liberation. They are the grandchild of four chingon undocumented Mexican immigrants and believe justice is only possible in a decolonized world that centers the margins of our margins.

Sabina Ibarrola
Sabina Ibarrola is a green witch, a cultural worker, a blossoming herbalist in the wisewoman tradition, and a Diversidad Sin Fronteras Texas Member.

PJ Raval
PJ Raval is the award‐winning Director/Producer of CALL HER GANDA. Named one of Out Magazine’s “Out 100”, PJ’s credits include Trinidad: Transgender Frontier (Showtime) and BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, which follows the lives of three gay senior men, described by indieWIRE as “a crucial new addition to the LGBT doc canon.” Also an accomplished cinematographer, PJ shot the Academy Award‐nominated Best Documentary TROUBLE THE WATER and is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, 2016 Firelight Media Fellow, 2017 Robert Giard Fellow, and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America.

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department. City of Austin Cultural Arts Division