Documentary Screening of "Cruel & Unusual"

When: November 14th, 2011; 6 pm- 8 pm
Where: AIDS Action Committee
(75 Amory St., Jackson Square in Jamaica Plain)

Imagine being a woman in a men’s prison. For many transgender individuals serving prison sentences, their placement is a horrible mistake, because the U.S. prison system decides where to place inmates based on their genitalia, not their gender identity.

Ashley, Linda, Anna, Yolanda and Ophelia describe their experiences including rape, violence, solitary confinement and denial of medical care in Cruel and Unusual.

Shot over three years, this high-definition documentary film challenges the viewer’s basic ideas about gender and justice through braids of poignantly graphic stories, vibrant landscape portraits and stark prison footage from across the United States.

Please call TransCEND for more information @
(617) 450-1102 or 1103

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Outcast Films is a film distribution company dedicated to the fair and equal representation of media made by or about the diverse Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender community. They are also educators and activists and want to be a vehicle for voices that may not otherwise be heard.

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If you are interested in becoming involved in a local Prison Pen Pal Program, Black and Pink is a Boston based grassroot queer organizing project that works to provide support to queer and trans folks in prison who are in search of others to write them. There is no mention of what they were convicted of because the prison industrial complex is set up to imprison all sorts of people regardless of what they possibly could have done on the outside. This is a great opportunity for you to get to know someone and provide support to some one in great need of friendship and attention.

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