Meritocracy and Other Bullsh*t Narratives – Panel at the 7th European Transgender Council

Posted on 17. July 2018 in Asylum, Our work, European Transgender Council, Issues, Health & Depathologisation, Working with the Community, Violence & Hate Speech, Non-Discrimination, Events, Stigma & Backlash, Intersectionality

Meritocracy and Other Bullsh*t Narratives

Live stream of panel

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0565l7IItc

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TransRightsEurope/videos/2294048773970690/

Speaking order

Akim (Community Building, TGEU staff): Introduction to the panel.

Mina Tolu (Communications, TGEU staff): Anti-Activity Report.

Dinah Bons: Invisibilised, Underserved, and Over-Policed, by our own.

Ellen Murray: No one disabled comes here anyway – exclusion of disabled people in trans rights movements.

Ava McQueen: Stories of seeking asylum as a trans person of colour in Belgium.

Sanjar Kurmanov: The perspective of Central Asian and Eastern European activists in Western-dominated trans-activism and the demands from Central Asian trans activists to TGEU and the trans movement.

Nathan Gale: “performing intersectionality”.

Carter Honoree: Visa issues and how European organisations and activists don’t know how to work with activists from Africa and the rest of the world.

Transcript

Download PDF: https://tgeu.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Full-transcript-MeritocracyPanel.pdf