February [Monthly Community Meeting] – Free CeCe! (Film)
IndependenceFirst 540 S 1st Street, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesMuch of what we celebrate during Black History Month is achievements. Given the U.S.’s long and difficult history around race, it makes sense that many of these achievements are overcoming tremendous adversities and mounting collective resistance and resilience efforts. Both of those themes are front and center in Free CeCe!, a film we will view together Saturday, February 16, 2019 (2:00pm), at Independence First. Free CeCe! features interviews between noted trans actor Laverne Cox and CeCe McDonald. In 2012, McDonald – a bi Black trans woman – and her friends were physically assaulted, including racist and transphobic threats and taunts. McDonald defended herself, resulting her attacker’s death. CeCe was jailed in men’s prisons, and community members – including Laverne Cox and dozens of advocates around the country – worked to get her hormones and eventually arrange for her early release. Is it a coincidence this all took place in Minneapolis, where the first two openly […]