UPCOMING EVENTS
DEC 5 2024
What now, what next? How can we understand this moment with an intersectional & cross-movement lens around COVID, Long COVID, health, healing, and disability justice?
Join Long COVID Justice & TransEquity for a community conversation featuring
Dr. Oni Blackstock, Dean Spade, and Gabriel San Emeterio, with a performance by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Moderated by Emi Kane.
Thursday December 5
6:30-8pm ET: Panel presentation and Q&A
8-8:30pm ET: Stay to chat and share resources
ACCESS NOTES
- Languages: Presentations in English with CART, ASL, and Spanish interpretation.
- Camera optional. No breakout groups.
- Panel and Q&A will be recorded. Recording & resources will be shared with everyone who registered, & posted on our YouTube channels and websites.
PRESENTER BIOS
Oni Blackstock, MD, MHS is a nationally recognized thought leader in health equity and HIV. A primary care and HIV physician and researcher, Dr. Blackstock is the founder and Executive Director of Health Justice, a social impact consulting firm dedicated to helping healthcare and public health organizations center anti-racism and equity while they work to reduce health inequities. She also led the NYC Health Department’s HIV epidemic response and conducted research on HIV prevention and treatment for disproportionately impacted communities at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Blackstock is passionate about ensuring marginalized and minoritized communities have access to the resources and support needed to achieve optimal health and well-being.
Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, and Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) and the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!” His next book, Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up and Raise Hell Together, is forthcoming from Algonquin Press in January, 2025.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (they/she) is an older cousin, regular person, memory worker, disability and transformative justice old bytch, and the author or co-editor of ten books, including The Future Is Disabled (co-edited with Ejeris Dixon), Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Tonguebreaker and Dirty River. A Disability Futures Fellow, Lambda and Jeanne Córdova Award winner, five-time Publishing Triangle shortlister and longtime disabled QTBIPOC space maker, they are currently building Living Altars, a cultural space by and for disabled QTBIPOC writers. They are a new Philly resident after being a longtime visiting cousin.
Gabriel San Emeterio, LMSW (they/elle/she/he) is a Senior Fellow with Long COVID Justice / S4HI. They are a queer and disabled activist from Mexico City who migrated to New York City in the late 90’s. Gabriel holds a Masters degree in Social Work with Community Organizing as a method of practice and a certificate in Social Policy from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, where she is now part time faculty. They are also honored to be a member of the HIV Caucus (aka U.S. People Living with HIV Caucus). Gabriel’s life experience as a person living with HIV, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), and other complex chronic conditions, fuels their passion for disability justice and liberatory community work.
Emi Kane is a co-director at Long COVID Justice / Strategies for High Impact. She is a disabled and chronically ill educator, researcher and organizer. Emi spent many years working for a large university and a small foundation on health and migration, reparations and redistributive justice, and how people think and learn. She is also a former National Collective member for INCITE, a feminist of color anti-violence network, a co-founder of Survived and Punished, and a former but forever proud member of the Allied Media Projects board of directors. Above all, she thinks that relationships of trust are the most important political tools we have, and tries to live and work in ways that reflect that belief.
PAST EVENTS
DEC 19 2023
Last month we had such great response to our “Long COVID is a Trans Issue” event that we ran out of ~virtual~ space on Zoom for all the questions and attendees. So, we’re bringing back an informal session before the holidays, to collectively share resources, and identify the Qs being asked the most by our trans community.
We won’t have all the answers, and we certainly are no medical professionals, but we can organize around our concerns and continue to push for trans funding & programming at the forefront of Long COVID research.
➡️ Step 1: Check out the recording of the webinar on YouTube. You can also view the resource list and slides from JD’s presentation.
➡️ Step 2: Still have Qs that weren’t answered in the webinar? Submit them via this anonymous form, and we’ll try to address them in the Q&A!
➡️ Step 3: Register for the Q&A session, and then join us on Tuesday December 19 from 4-5pm ET.
Stay tuned for a Spanish & ASL version of the original webinar, we’re working to make these available.
More access notes:
• Auto captions
• Cameras optional
• Chat replies
• No flashing lights
• Resources will be emailed after the session
• Other access needs? Email [email protected]
NOV 15 2023
LONG COVID IS A TRANS ISSUE
NOV 15 2023, 5:30-7:00 PM ET
Join us for an important conversation about Long COVID and disparities for the trans community hosted by Trans Equity with Long COVID Justice
Let’s talk about Long COVID, how we can take care of ourselves & each other, and why disability justice is essential to trans liberation.
- Moderated by Cecilia Gentili @ceciliagentili72
- Performance by Kay Ulanday Barrett, @brownroundboi
- Research by Sari L Reisner, SCD
- Resources from JD Davids, @thecrankyqueer
Access Notes
- Auto captions
- Spanish interpretation
- Webinar format / attendees are off camera
- Bio break
- Chat replies
- No flashing lights
- Resources will be emailed after the session
- Recording will be available for 90 days for those who registered for the workshop
- Other access needs? Email [email protected]
View & share this promo video on Instagram!
NOV 16, 30, and DEC 14, 2023
RESISTING COVID DENIALISM
NOV 16 + 30, DEC 14 2023, 6:00-7:30 PM ET
Looking forward to another special event with PeoplesHub – the first event in the series features LongCOVIDJustice co-founder JD Davids & other amazing organizers!
Event news from PeoplesHub:
😷Join us for “Resisting COVID Denialism: Strategy Clinics for Organizers,” a series of 3 online clinics designed to connect organizers actively working against COVID denialism.
👉 We recognize that people have been resisting COVID denialism, often in relative isolation. These clinics are designed for collective strategizing and troubleshooting of common issues we face in doing this. We’ll work directly off of scenarios from participants’ own experiences with COVID denialism.
*️⃣ Participants are encouraged to attend the full series, as each session will build upon the next. The strategy clinic format will be a facilitated popular education space, relying upon the group’s knowledge.
Featuring:
@birch_sky @thecrankyqueer @longcovidjustice @notthreefifths
Access Notes
- Auto captions
- Interpreters + captioners available by request (via registration form)
- Camera optional
- This session will not be recorded, to protect participants’ privacy with whatever may be shared in the space!
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