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Screaming Queens Film Screening & Special Guest Janetta Johnson
ABOUT THE FILM:
Directors Susan Stryker and Victor Silvermans award-winning documentary, Screaming Queens: The Riot at Comptons Cafeteria, tells the forgotten story of one of the first collective act of militant resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United Statesa 1966 riot by transgender prostitutes at a late night cafeteria in San Francisco. Screaming Queens was awarded an Emmy during The 35th Annual Northern California Area EMMY® Awards For Outstanding Achievement in the Historical/Cultural category. (57 minutes)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Janetta Louise Johnson is the Executive Director at TGI Justice Project. She is a formerly incarcerated Black transgender woman and has been an activist and advocate in the transgender communities since 1997, when she moved to San Francisco from her hometown of Tampa, Florida. She survived three and a half years in federal prison, and while inside she fiercely and tirelessly advocated for her rights as an incarcerated transgender person. She became politicized through her kinship with Miss Major, her adopted trans mother, and after her release from prison returned to her work with non-profits and social service agencies with a higher compassion for people on the inside of jails and prisons. In 2006, she put her skills as a community organizer, trainer and activist to work as Interim Director of TGI Justice Project, during which she coordinated vibrant grassroots fundraisers to support the organization. In 2014, she became the permanent Executive Director of TGIJP when Miss Major retired from the position.
Johnson co-founded the Comptons Transgender Cultural District, the first transgender cultural district in the country, here in San Francisco in 2016. Janetta is committed to building strategies and interventions to reduce the recidivism rate of the transgender community by providing leadership development and job opportunities to those who are currently being released from custody. She is also a fierce advocate for transgender people who are currently incarcerated, working tirelessly to improve the lives of those currently on the inside through legislative campaigns like the Name and Dignity Act, which enables people in held in California prisons to change their legal name and gender, while also fighting for the abolition of prisons at large. She believes that currently and formerly incarcerated trans people without a voice will be people without hope. She will continue to struggle to instill hope and belief in a better future for every transgender person that she can reach.
All ticket sales will benefit the TGIJP.
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LocationBrew Coffee & Beer (View)
555 Healdsburg Ave
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
United States
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