Art and Action for Kelly, a 23-year-old trans asylum seeker who has been detained for 2.5 years

Kelly is a 23-year-old transgender asylum seeker who has been detained for more than two and a half years by US immigration authorities. Like many LGBT folks in the inhumane immigration detention system, she has suffered medical neglect and has been put in solitary confinement arbitrarily, in one instance for four months straight.

On Wednesday, join us for poetry, music, and online action, as well as letter writing you can do at home for Kelly. Your registration will also keep you in the loop on other Refugee and Asylum cases that Amnesty is working on in the future, so the attention and your ability to take action doesn’t stop once the livestream ends. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

This presentation is part of a whole week of action, below is the timeline of events:

Monday – Click here! Sign and share the petition to ICE

Tuesday – Retweet / tag an influencer to #FreeKelly

Keep and eye on Translatin@ Coalition’s social channels for celebs to RT.

Twitter: @TransLatina_C

Facebook: com/translatinacoalition/

Instagram: @TransLatinaCoalition

Write posts about the #FreeKelly campaign and TAG influencers, celebrities, thought leaders, activists, and LGBTQ+ advocates.

Wednesday – Twitter storm at ICE

On Wednesday we are making sure that @ICEGOV pays attention to our demand to #FREEKELLY. From 11 am – 1 pm PST/ 2pm – 4pm EST join us on Twitter. Make sure you tag @ICEgov in your tweets! Not sure what you can tweet? We attached some tweets to this post AND you can look at @/translatina_C, @/amnestyusa, and @/nijc directly on twitter to join the discussion.

#TransPeopleDeservetoLive #wewillnotbeerased #shutitdown #trans #queer #transisbeautiful #non-binary #gendernonconforming #transwoman #transmen #transdaily #lgbtq #transpride #transgender #FREEKELLY #EndTransDetention #FreeThemAll

Thursday – Make calls to ICE while we deliver the petition (virtually!)

Please join us in calling John Fabricatore’s, Field Office Director of the Denver Field Office to demand he use his discretion and release Kelly immediately.Call Denver Field Office at 720-471-6712 and the Aurora Contract Detention Center at 720-873-2899

Phone Script: “Kelly is now one of two trans people who continue to be detained at Aurora County Detention Center after the mass transfer of trans people earlier this year. Despite the large efforts to #FreeThemAll ICE refuses to release Kelly Please make a call today to let them hear us loud and clear. Kelly should not spend another day locked up. She deserves dignity and she has a strong community waiting for her once she gets released.”

Friday – Online panel discussion and virtual solidarity letter-writing party!

We will have an online discussion about the landscape of trans women in detention in the U.S. Sign up here! Speakers include:

Yessica Gonzalez, TransLatin@ Coalition

Michae Pulido, TransLatin@ Coalition

Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty International Americas Director

ACCESS THE #FREEKELLY TOOLKIT HERE!