LGBTI People Defending Civic Space

This panel combines activists who speaking to creative on-ground and online strategies and speakers who will directly address issues ofintersectionality and practicing inclusion in the context of LGBTI defenders and civic space.  

 

It will provide a platform for showing arts interventions led by structurally silenced women both in physical public space and in online space from India andLebanon respectively. Concurrent to this, we will use the session to amplify the voices of structurally silenced LGBTI defenders speaking from the context of a refugee camp in Kenya, about the pro-democracy protests and question of in/exclusion within the LGBTI and mainstream femininist movements in Sudan, and about killings of trans activists and ‘transforming hate’ in Mesoamerica.

 

 

The session is organised by the Our Voices Our Futures (OVOF) consortium, an international feminist partnership in which WO=MEN collaborates with CREA, Association for Progressive Communications (APC), UHAI and IM-Defensoras. It provides insights into the "arts & culture" strategey that is part of teh consortium. The session was originally planned to take place during the ILGA World Conference as a hybrid session but had to be postponed due to technical difficulties at the conference.