Dee Farmer in Dialogue with Badly Licked Bear: On Mutualism and Trans Prisoners’ Rights

Transgender legal expert, advocate, and poet Dee Farmer will share her multi-decade advocacy for the incarcerated trans community. Dee Farmer was the first transgender plaintiff to bring a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Farmer v. Brennan was heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1994 and the court ruled unanimously in favor of Farmer. This case was foundational to the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003. 

Dee Farmer will be in dialogue with Los Angeles-based artist and mutual aid worker Badly Licked Bear for the evening. 

This event is sponsored by LA Encounters and the Mary Norton Clapp Library with funding support from Pohlmann-Gawley Fund for the Study of Los Angeles, the Art and Art History Department, OXY ARTS, Center for Community-Based Learning, and Critical Theory and Social Justice Department.

Please RSVP at this link to join us! 

All exhibition events are free and open to the public. Hold Each Other's Hands is co-presented by One Institute and OXY ARTS as a part of One Institute’s Circa: Queer Histories Festival. You can view the full schedule of CIRCA events here: https://www.oneinstitute.org/circa/