{"id":91,"date":"2018-04-30T04:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T04:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2018-04-30T19:53:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T19:53:02","slug":"tgi-justice-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/tgi-justice-project\/","title":{"rendered":"TGI Justice Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Transgender, Gender Variant, Intersex Justice Project <\/span>is an organization that works to support trans people\u2014particularly black and brown trans women and trans femmes\u2014who are in prison or formerly incarcerated.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Miss Major sitting on a car being used as a float in a pride parade. Photo from the 2015 documentary Major!; https:\/\/www.missmajorfilm.com\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miss Major, former executive director of TGIJP,\u00a0 is a \u201cblack, formerly incarcerated MTF transgender elder. A veteran activist born and raised on the south side of Chicago, she participated in the Stonewall rebellion in 1969 and was politicized in the wake of the Attica prison rebellion. She has worked at HIV\/AIDS organizations throughout California, was an original member of the first all-transgender gospel choir, and is a father, mother, grandmother, and grandfather to her own children and to many in the transgender community\u201d (Donahue, interview for <\/span>Captive Genders<\/span><\/i>, 268).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an interview, Miss Major describes how TGIJP is a collective in which the legal team, grassroots fundraising team, and \u201cthe person that helps with grants and does that kind of annoying stuff that you have to do to survive\u201d work together to do what needs to get done.<\/span><\/p>\n

She goes on to describe more:<\/span><\/p>\n

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A snippet of an interview with Miss Major, conducted by Jayden Donahue, from Captive Genders: Transgender Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex.<\/em><\/p>\n

Miss Major\u2019s discussion of TGIJP and why they have the programs they do lays bare the importance of care networks in the face of insidious forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

A central operating tenet of the prison industrial complex is that people can be displaced and disenfranchised via human warehousing. \u00a0That is to say, the PIC seeks to make some people disappear.<\/span><\/p>\n

And, as Major points out, to be a transgender woman or transfemme person inside a prison is to be marked as different in way that is particularly dangerous. \u00a0So, what does it mean for people to maintain healing human connections in a context geared at destroying one\u2019s sense of self?<\/span><\/p>\n

Major describes how there is a life-saving power in correspondence that \u201c[re]connects me to who I am,\u201d so one does not become simply \u201cNumber 449632-C\u201d.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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The Transgender, Gender Variant, Intersex Justice Project is an organization that works to support trans people\u2014particularly black and brown trans women and trans femmes\u2014who are in prison or formerly incarcerated. Miss Major, former executive director of TGIJP,\u00a0 is a \u201cblack, formerly incarcerated MTF transgender elder. A veteran activist born and raised on the south side … Continue reading TGI Justice Project<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-91","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}