Rubén Angel (any/all pronouns) is a multimedia content creator present across all social media. Their work includes: curating a social justice blog, writing and editing essays, hosting and editing podcasts, as well as creating video content and other visual media. He employs his embodied knowledge, oral histories, and critical readings, as well as their experience as an organizer and educator to educate and entertain. Their work focuses on Latinx/Chicanx issues, QTPOC, lived and generational trauma, survivor advocacy, pop culture, social justice, and the ethical application of radical “chisme.”

Our first series of workshops focuses on resources available to our community throughout the state, as well as all of the amazing individuals who ensure that these resources stay accessible to our community despite all we have faced. From local groups to library systems, to programs across the state, there is something for everyone to learn and hopefully utilize in future organizing.

Library Resource Panel: Libraries are for everyone! Time and again, libraries end up being a safe space for so many of us. Come and learn more about the resources and recommendations libraries across our state have to assist you in meeting your needs and plugging into the movement!

• Meg Nance-Cocker with OKC/Metro Libraries

• Sarah Dawson with Tulsa City County Libraries

• Kirsten Walker with Pioneer Library System

• Syd Stephenson with OKC University Law Library

Mutual Aid/Community Resource Panel: So often you hear the phrase in the 2SLGBTQ+ community, ‘We take care of us’, and this workshop shows the truth in that statement. Throughout the state, there are groups and organizers who ensure that our community is safe and shown care. Come celebrate in queer and trans joy by learning more about what’s been created by and for 2SLGBTQ+ Oklahomans.

• Elliot Parker with Oklahoma Department of Trans

• Fern Galindo with Tulsa Intersectional Care Network

• Jennifer Sharp with SHOTS Tulsa

Youth and Young Adult (YAYA) Panel: Young Oklahomans are those who have most been targeted in recent legislative sessions. This workshop is intended for youth to share both what they have done to make changes for the better in their communities as well as share out what they need from youth advocates and allies.

• Lexi Hall with YAS Oklahoma

• Nate with an Oklahoma GSA

• Fia with Amplify Tulsa’s Youth Leadership Council

• Marcellus Miller with OKC YAB

Note: Anyone can join this workshop, but we ask that youth and young adults are centered in this space so they can share in their experiences and give advice to fellow peers and those who are working with them.

This workshop series will feature experts in different fields who will be able to assist you in finding the answers to questions that may cause issue for you to stay engaged in the movement (i.e. name/gender marker issues, healthcare needs, how to start an awareness campaign, knowing your rights, etc). We will have healthcare professionals, legal services, and community organizers available to navigate the difficult systems put in place for 2SLGBTQ+ people.

Note: Please feel free to go in and out of these panels as needed. Our goal for this 2nd series is that you have the opportunity to get what you need in order to be better prepared to engage in community with others as well as the larger movement. We must care for ourselves in order to show up fully.

Ask A Healthcare Professional Panel: We have asked several health experts who specialize in Gender Affirming Care to join us and answer questions posed by the community. We will provide some general overview, and then the space will be opened up for questions from participants. Note: There will be limitations to what providers can share/answer as they are not a primary care provider for each participant. If you have more specific questions that can not be answered during the workshop, we will do our best to follow up and connect you with the answers after the conference.

• Kiernan Cobb, BSN, RN, Dr. Christina Bourne, and Terri Fleming, APRN, FNP-BC, AAHIVS with the Trust Women Medical Team

• Caroline Leithner, MDiv, MSN, RN, APRN-CNP, FNP-C, PMHS - Family Nurse Practitioner

Ask A Legal Expert Panel: We have asked several different experts in legal services to speak about issues such as name/gender marker needs, estate planning, and knowing your rights. We will provide some general overview, and then the space will be opened up for questions from participants. Note: There will be limitations to what panelists can answer as not every panelist is every participant's legal counsel, and not every person is specifically a lawyer. If you have more specific questions that can not be answered during the workshop, we will do our best to follow up and connect you with the answers after the conference.

• Megan Lambert with the ACLU of Oklahoma

• Veronica Laizure with National Lawyers Guild of Oklahoma

• Bria Winston with Ball Morse Lowe PLLC

• Caius Willingham with National Center for Transgender Equality

Ask A Community Organizer Panel: Often the hardest part of community organizing is knowing where to start. We have asked several community organizers from different backgrounds to come and share their experiences and expertise with participants in hopes of lifting the weight of how to get started. We will provide some general overview, and then the space will be opened up for questions from participants.

• Amairani Perez Chamu with Dream Action Oklahoma

• Delanie Seals - Community Organizer

• Jacob Jeffrey with Rural Oklahoma Pride

This workshop series will be focused on issues the 2SLGBTQ+ community faces as well as new skills and ideas on how to change the way we engage in the movement and bring about change for the betterment of all Oklahomans.

Abolition 101 with Foundation for Liberating Minds (Kelli Alvarez and Tevin McDaniel)

PIC Abolition 101 is an interactive training unpacking all of the complexity of prison industrial complex abolition. Abolition is a political vision and practical organizing strategy with the goal of eliminating imprisonment, policing, and surveillance and creating lasting alternatives to punishment and imprisonment. This session looks at the core principles of abolition, its historical legacies, and examines the question if the criminal legal system is broken, capable of being reformed, or if it is working as intended, with inherent flaws that must be abolished. All through the lens of the prison industrial complex’s disproportionate impact on 2SLGBTQ+ people and communities.

HIV Decriminalization 101 with Jada Hicks (Center for HIV Law & Policy) and Nathan Cisneros (UCLA School of Law Williams Institute)

HIV criminalization is the creation of new criminal laws and increased penalties targeting people diagnosed with HIV for conduct that is either legal or less severely punished for individuals who have not been diagnosed with HIV —in other words, HIV status is used as a standalone basis to single out PLHIV for unique and discriminatory treatment by our criminal legal system. HIV criminal laws act as a barrier to the public health goal of ending the HIV epidemic. Marginalized communities—people of color, sex workers, members of the LGBTQ community, people who inject drugs, those who are currently or formerly incarcerated— are disproportionately impacted by HIV criminalization, and by the structural inequities which perpetuate the transmission of HIV. This pattern is part of the war on sex workers, the American legacy of anti-Black racism, and the new sex panic of the twenty-first century.

HIV criminal law reform seeks to bring the law in line with modern scientific evidence regarding routes and risks of transmission as well as fundamental principles of fairness and justice. The HIV criminal law reform movement has gained considerable traction in the last few years, resulting in a rapidly changing legal landscape for people living with HIV (PLWH). During this workshop we will:

• review the landscape of laws that criminalize communicable disease exposure and nondisclosure against the backdrop of our current political climate,

• review recent HIV criminalization modernization attempts and the legal implications for PLWH (people living with HIV)

• explore the diverse paths to modernization

Digital Safety/Security 101 with Megan Lambert (ACLU of OK) and Veronica Laizure (National Lawyers Guild of Oklahoma)

The Digital Safety panel will review best practices and the underlying law for protecting your right to privacy in your digital information while interacting with law enforcement, protesting and engaging in direct actions, and attending public meetings. The goal of this panel is to teach you how to best protect yourself and your information while engaging in the democratic process.