Where We Are & Where We’re Going:
Highlighting the Intersections of Trans Activism
A Trans Day of Visibility Panel
Join us on March 31st for two dynamic conversations in honor of Trans Day of Visibility. Panelists will be discussing trans activism, rights, community building, safety, thriving, and more!
Trans Activism: Where We Are
6:00pm-7:15pm EST
A conversation with:
Dominique Morgan - Executive Director Black and Pink, Inc. (She/Her)
Shelby Chestnut - Director of Policy and Programs at the Transgender Law Center (They/Them)
Wynn Heyward - Community Activist, Healthcare (They/Them)
Panel moderated by Alisha Kohn - Director of the Queer Justice Committee (She/Her)
Trans Futures: Where We’re Going!
7:30pm-9:00pm EST
A conversation with:
Daniel B. Coleman, dancing/creative artist Pronouns (He/They)
Damien Pascal Domenack - M.Div, Th.M. Pronouns (He/They)
Emanuel H. Brown - Executive Director and Founder of Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom (He/Him)
Panel moderated by Rae Leiner - Executive Director of the Newburgh LGBTQ+ Center (They/Them)
March 31st
6:00-7:15 PM EST: Where We Are: Trans Activism
7:15-7:30 PM EST: Break
7:30-9:00 PM EST: Where We’re Going: Trans Futures
Cost: $10-$50 Sliding Scale
Panel 1
6:00PM-7:15PM
Trans Activism: Where We Are
Dominique Morgan
(She/Her)
is an award-winning artist, activist, and TEDx speaker. As the Executive Director of Black and Pink, the largest prison abolitionist organization in the United States. She works daily to dismantle the systems that perpetuate violence on LGBTQ/GNC people and individuals living with HIV/AIDS. Partnering her lived experience of being impacted by mass incarceration (including 18 months in solitary confinement), with a decade of change-making artistry, advocacy, and background in public health, she continues to work in spaces of sex education, radical self-care, and transformative youth development with intentions of dismantling the prison industrial complex and its impact on our communities. Ms. Morgan is a 2020 Ten Outstanding Young Americans Award recipient, NAACP Freedom Fighter Award recipient, and 2020 JM Kaplan Innovation Prize recipient. Her new album Pisces In E Flat Major is available on all platforms and her book “Sex Ed for System Facing People” will be availiable Jan 2022. Find out more about Dominique at www.dominiquemorgan.com. Check out her TEDxTalk on Resilience
Shelby Chestnut
(they/them)
is the Director of Policy and Programs at the Transgender Law Center (TLC), the countries largest trans led organization. Shelby’s work focuses on supporting the leadership of transgender people of color around the US, to ensure they are alive and thriving. Prior to TLC, Shelby served as the Director of Community Organizing and Public Advocacy at the New York City Anti-Violence Project for 6 years. Shelby holds a BA from Antioch College and an MS in Public Policy from the New School. Shelby has dedicated their career to organizing and mobilizing LGBTQ people, people of color and low income communities to ensure policies are informed by the people directly impacted by economic inequality and violence.
S.Wynn Heyward
(they/them)
Born & Raised in the Bronx, Wynn has had the pleasure to be surrounded by a community that is diverse & deeply cultured. Leading to a passion for community & keeping that community informed & knowledgeable. Navigating the medical industry is a daunting endeavor that causes fear & anxiety in many. Wynn has the pleasure of relieving those worries & guiding countless LGBTQ & TGNC folxs.
Panel 2
7:30PM-9:00PM
Trans Futures: Where We’re Going!
Damien Pascal Domenack, M.Div, Th.M.
(he/they)
is a Santero Priest whose ministry centers Queer, Trans, POC, and Latinx immigrant communities of which he is a part of. Damien is currently a Resident Chaplain and his research focuses on Afro-Latinx diasporic dance as embodied prayer. Damien is a prison abolitionist and a founding member of Audre Lorde Project’s TransJustice in NYC
Daniel B. Coleman
(he/they)
is a mixed-Black transmasculine non-binary queer and polyamorous tender radical. Daniel is a militant artist-scholar who uses performance as a method of thinking with the ecologies of trans embodiment practices and movement spaces between the U.S. South and the Mexican South. He also loves offering work as a movement healer with BIPOC people. Daniel's source of hope is poetry.
Emanuel H. Brown
(he/him)
is a Black Caribbean Trans Masculine Non-Binary person living at the at the intersections of race, gender and sexuality. As a Embodied Freedom Pracitioner, Emanuel works with BIPOC, and Queer/Trans* folks creating new strategies for liberation and freedom using healing/arts/spiritual (HEARTS) Justice. His integrative approach gained the attention of numerous institutions, and movement spaces including Auburn Seminary, St. Luis University Institute for Healing Justice and Equity, Allied Media Conference, Facing Race and the National Sexual Assault Conference. Emanuel is the Executive Director and Founder of Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom located on occupied Muskogee Creek Territory in Georgia.
