#FreeAshleyNow Letter Writing with Ky Peterson
Start: 2021-05-19 19:00:00 UTC Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)
End: 2021-05-19 20:30:00 UTC Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)
This is a virtual event
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Join the #FreeAshleyNow team and our partners for a letter writing event for Ashley! We filled up the mailroom with our letters last time, and we're hoping to keep sending support. We'll be joined by Rafaela Uribe, a member of Ashley's legal team from the Center for Constitutional Rights, abolitionist organizer and writer Mariame Kaba, and Ky Peterson, who is a formerly incarcerated Black trans man and survivor. Ky was one of the first trans people inside a Georgia State prison to receive gender affirming care after Ashley won her first lawsuit in 2015.
This event will be the first in what we hope to be a series of events with guest speakers to boost their fundraising and do letter writing!
Accessibility: We will have two certified ASL interpreters, and automated zoom captions. Please let us know any other accessibility needs at freeashleydiamondnow@gmail.com.
Event Partners: Survived & Punished, Solutions Not Punishment, Center for Constitutional Rights
Event Schedule:
7-8pm EST Special speakers including Mariame Kaba & Ky Peterson
8-8:30pm EST Letter writing
Support Ky:
- Venmo: Kenyota-Petersom (yes it's an M!)
- Cash App: $KenyotaPeterson97
- Pay Pal: Petersonkm89@gmail.com
- Gofundme
Learn more about the #FreeAshleyNow campaign & how to support here.
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A light purple watercolor background. At the top of the graphic black text reads “Support Black Trans Survivors! Free Ashley Letter Writing w Ky Peterson. 7-8pm EST featuring Ky / 8-8:30pm letter writing / May 19 2021." Underneath there are logos of Survived & Punished, SNAP Co. that says Solutions Not Punishment, & Center for Constitutional Rights
Beneath is a red box with white text that reads “http://bit.ly/kyandashley”
In the bottom are drawings of Ashley and Ky. Ashley, a Black trans woman with long. Black hair, is wearing a red collared shirt and is smiling. Ky, a Black trans man with short black hair, is wearing a white t-shirt. He has an earring in his left ear. “Art by Micah Bazant” is written on the right side of the graphic