Trans Liberation, Not U.S. Invasion!

Featuring Micha Cárdenas, Soya Jung, Nikkita Oliver, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and Dean Spade.

In these excerpts from the April 2, 2018 Queer Anti-Militarism Town Hall at the Seattle Public Library, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore asks, “What if we had a movement that, instead of calling for the right of trans people to serve in unjust wars, was about getting trans people out of prison?”

In the wake of Trump’s trans military ban, we’ve been flooded with patriotic and pro-military images of trans military service. But what about how we hate war and militarism? In this town hall, speakers explore queer and trans resistance to militarism and the racist, sexist, transphobic, and environmental violence of U.S. imperialism.

Thank you: Angélica Cházaro, Davida Ingrahm, Orlando Lugo, Manochehr Nourizadeh, and Bean Yogi, Seattle Public Library, Seattle University School of Law, and the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Filmed by Sabel Roizen, Edited by Dean Spade and Hope Dector. “Trans Liberation Not More U.S. Invasion” art by Micah Bazant.

For additional resources on Queer and Trans Anti-Militarism, and a toolkit for doing anti-militarism queer/trans outreach, visit queertranswarban.com.