Poster for the Florida Trans and Womyn’s Action Camp 2013!
The Trans and Womyn’s Action Camp (TWAC) is all about solidarity and the interconnectedness that binds the urgent struggles for all life on earth. At TWAC we will share campaign information and direct action skills in a conscientious, supportive, empowering and encouraging environment for voices often marginalized, and then to take collective action together at the end of the camp! This is an intentional space for folks who identify as female, transgender, transsexual, gender queer and gender variant. Some major focuses of our camp will be the prison/detention/deportation system, colonization, eco-defense and immigration.
One of two Trans and Womyn’s Action Camps happening this year will be held in South Florida from April 4th-9th, and we are eagerly counting down the days because we can’t wait to throw a kickass camp with all the amazing babes we are sure will show up! We are currently fundraising through an indiegogo campaign, check out our video and consider making a donation to support this years’ Florida camp. You can also support our campaign by passing it along to your contacts. Please share our campaign on your facebooks, send it out to listservs, email it to friends and family, and post it on your websites! The success of indiegogo depends on how much networking you can do, so we rely on folks like you reposting our link!
We want to host an amazing event where new beautiful friendships will flourish, organizing and direct action skills will expand, and folks will leave feeling refreshed and empowered to take up space and take action despite the efforts of patriarchy to silence and invisiablize us. In order to host the best event we can, we are asking folks to help us raise the money we need by donating to our indiegogo campaign! Every little things counts, so if you can only donate but a dollar, we are grateful. Click this link to watch our video and donate to our campaign.
This year, although we will have a variety of workshops covering all sorts of topics, we will have a major focus on Florida’s “Viva Florida 500″ celebration, which intends to celebrate instead of denounce the 500th anniversary of the landing of Ponce De Leon on what is now called Florida, and immigration reform, detention centers, and private prisons. Read more about it on our website!
From the Dine’ women defending their native lands against destructive mining, to the eco-feminists defending forests from logging and developing; from the immigrant and trans women defending their lives from the prison industrial complex, to the parents and midwifes defending their bodies and babies from the patriarchal medical establishment, women and trans folks have always been powerhouses of political action, and TWAC aims to support this in a safe(r) environment.
Thanks so much for taking the time to read this! Thanks in advance for helping us get our indiegogo out to the internet world – and for donating!
If you can make it, we would love to see you in South Florida!
Love, The South Florida TWAC Organizers
