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Photo courtesy of NBCUniversal 4 Nov. 13, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES Local LGBTQ activism Kim Hunt, Tania Cordova, Reyna Ortiz and Stephanie Skora. topic of panel at Photo by Carrie Maxwell library discussion BY CARRIE MAXWELL ships to the Boystown neighborhood; how LGBTQ people are affected by the current immigration Chicago Public Library’s Pride Heritage Committee and refugee/asylum seeker policies; and hate and Brave Space Alliance hosted a panel discus- crimes against transgender people, especially sion, “LGBTQ Activism’s Past, Present and Future Black transgender women. in Chicago,”recently at the library’s Woodson Re- Both Cordova and Ortiz said they did not learn gional location. about Stonewall until recently, and Ortiz added Pride Action Tank Executive Director Kim Hunt that there is an issue with LGBTQ history not be- seekers while Ortiz said no presidential adminis- gender supremacy and capitalism, and funnel- served as the event’s moderator. Panelists in- ing passed down from one generation to the next. tration has been friendly toward transgender im- ing money toward grassroots organizations and cluded Ser el Cambio Founder, community educa- Ortiz said transgender people of color are primar- migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Skora tied resources that help the most marginalized in the tor and advocate Tania Cordova; Chicago House ily focused on survival. the current anti-immigrant Trump administration LGBTQ community. Cordova said that this work TransSafe Coordinator, advocate, activist and T, Skora mentioned the recent Human Rights Cam- policies to what happened to Jewish refugees starts in one’s own biological families to eradi- Stands for Truth author Reyna Ortiz; and Brave paign- and CNN-sponsored LGBT Town Hall, where who were turned away from the United States cate anti-LGBTQ bigotry and violence. Space Alliance Associate Executive Director transgender women interrupted the proceedings during World War II and sent back to die in con- Cordova said Ser el Cambio is a new support and Stephanie Skora. to highlight the issues facing the entire trans- centration camps. resource network for transgender women of color Following an introduction by Rogers Park li- gender community but were forcibly escorted out Ortiz said that hate crimes and violence against who have been incarcerated or detained and that brary branch Adult Librarian Alexis Cantu, Hunt of the room. She added that there is a direct line transgender people is a community problem that they need funding to continue their work. told the crowd about the all transgender identi- between Stonewall and the town hall “through has to be taken care of at the community level. fied panelist lineup. the organizing and direct action of transgender Skora spoke about dismantling white and cis- Turn to page 6 Hunt asked the panelists who influenced them women of color who are publicly visible and take to become activists. over stages, grab microphones, interrupt speech- Cordova said it was her godmother, the late es, and shut down Pride parades because people Miss Ketty, because she learned so much from are not interested in listening to us.” Shakers on Clark’s her. She added that Miss Ketty was instrumental Cordova, Ortiz and Skora said they do not feel Jason Zdebski passes away Zdebski. in getting many transgender women like herself safe in Boystown and have not for a number of BY MATT SIMONETTE access to hormone therapy drugs. Ortiz also said years. Cordova said that, for transgender immi- Photo by Miss Ketty as well as Miss Ketty’s daughter Moni- grants like herself, there is no safe space in this Kirk Jason Zdebski, who was a business partner in Williamson ca Fernandez, who was her Ortiz’s mother. country. Shakers on Clark, 3160 N. Clark St., passed Skora said she has been “yelling about injus- Ortiz spoke about being a sex-worker (during away suddenly sometime the weekend of Nov. tice” since she was a child, and that the three 1999-2003) who worked along Halsted Street and 2-3. He was 43 and the cause of death is not people who have inspired her were the late Sylvia how it was a safe space during that time but it yet known. Rivera, Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman. She is now a racist and classist neighborhood. Skora Zdebski was the “face of Shakers on Clark,” added that meeting both Bornstein and Bergman said for her Boystown is just a place that exists according to the establishment’s co-owner, was very meaningful to her. in Chicago and the only safe space for her in the Mark Friedlander. “He was a ‘people-person.’” hood,” Friedlander recalled. “Everybody knew Other topics included the Stonewall Uprising city is at the Chicago Dyke March. In 2014, Zdebski and Friedlander took over Jason. He talked to everybody. Even if someone relationship to Chicago; the panelists’ relation- Cordova spoke about her work helping asylum the space from Jim Flint, when Flint decided was trouble, he could carry a conversation with to sell the previous business, 3160 Piano Bar anybody.