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Media Write-ups/Articles/Interviews
Photo credit: G. Dunkel
Activist • Writer
• Performer
55 West 17th Street – 5th Floor, NY, NY 10011
(646) 342-9673
[email protected]
www.geocities.com/Imani_Henry
Imani Henry, Activist, Writer, Performer.
Since 1993, Imani has been a
Staff Organizer at the International Action Center (IAC), where his work has
focused on national organizing of communities of color and the lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender movement toward broader social justice and anti-war
campaigns. Over the years, Imani has worked behind the scenes to coordinate
marches, rallies, demonstrations, direct actions, encampments, teach-ins,
conferences and forums around the country.
His
anti-war activism has ranged from opposing US-backed military inventions in Afghanistan, Colombia, Iran, Iraq, Haiti, Korea, Palestine, Somalia, Venezuela and Yugoslavia to fighting to end the economic blockade of Cuba. Imani has organized to stop the gentrification
of working class neighborhoods and to gain access to affordable housing,
healthcare, education and jobs in the US. He has worked in solidarity to
demand the right of return for Gulf Coast Hurricane survivors and to stop the
racist attacks on immigrant communities. Since 1995, Imani has been
part of the national anti-police brutality and anti-death penalty movements in
the United States. Henry is the co-founder of Rainbow Flags for Mumia, a
coalition of LGBTST people who demand the freedom of African- American
political prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal. As a staff member of The
Audre Lorde Project, Imani was the program coordinator of TransJustice, the 1st political group of NYC created by and for Trans and Gender Non-Conforming
people of color. He also serves as the administrator for two national lists for
Trans and Gender Non-Conforming people of Color – TGPOC and TPOCX.
His
writing has appeared in several publications including the lambda award winning Does Your Mama Know (Red Bone Press) and the newly released Voices
Rising: Celebrating 20 years of Black LGBT Writing (Other Countries 2007)
and Marxism, Reparations and the Black
Freedom Struggle, (World View Forum
Publishing). Imani is also a journalist for the progressive weekly,
Workers' World newspaper.
In July 2007, Imani had the great honor to of being a speaker on Liberating Gender & Sexuality Plenary at United States Social Forum, whichfeaturing Betita Martinez, Mia Mingus, Suzanne Pharr, Loretta Ross, and Andrea Smith. 2008 marks 6 years of touring his multi-media theatre performance, B4T (before testosterone), at colleges, conferences and theatres across the US and Canada.
Imani Henry is a Caribbean transsexual male living in the Republic of Brooklyn, NY
Media
Write-ups/Articles/Interviews
Velvetpark
- June 2004
http://www.velvetparkmagazine.com/features.html
The Village Voice - June 2004
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0425/tqi.php
June 02,2003 interview with Gender Talk Radio http://www.gendertalk.com/
Interview with Imani Henry [Sable Magazine: go to lounge/people]
Interview
on Gender Talk (June 10, 2002)
The longest running radio broadcast show on Transgender issues!
International Drag King
Extravaganza To move to Columbus
next year.
A speech given about the historical building of the coalition of LGBT
activist and organizations to demand a new trial for African-American
journalist & political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
NYC Trans Activists Forum
1999
What transpired at the "Trans-Safety & Violence Town Meeting"
on March 4 in NYC
@ LGBT
Center, 208 West 13th Street, New York, NY
Gender Talk, Interview
Program #199, March 29, 1999
Imani Henry is a Caribbean female-to-male Transsexual activist, writer and performer
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