Prisoner Correspondence Project

The Prisoner Correspondence Project is a collectively-run initiative based out of Montreal, Quebec. It coordinates a direct-correspondence program for gay, lesbian, transsexual, transgender, gendervariant, two-spirit, intersex, bisexual and queer inmates in Canada and the United States, linking these inmates with people a part of these same communities outside of prison.

We are always looking for new non-incarcerated folks to become penpals! If you are interested, check out the get involved section of the website and then get in touch.

La criminalisation du risque:

Discussion et présentations sur la criminalisation du transmission de VIH

JEUDI LE 12 AOUT — 18 h 30 a 20 h 30
Association Sportive et Communautaire du Centre-Sud –
2093 rue de la Visitation (entre Sherbrooke E. et Ontario)

*** traduction simultanée en anglais et en français ***

Cette conversation réunira toute une gang de gens intéressé aux sujets de la prévention du VIH et des enjeux juridiques relatifs à la transmission du VIH, au risque et à la non divulgation dans le contexte canadien des tendances à la criminalisation. La discussion modérée explorera le prix qu’ont les personnes séropositives à payer suite aux nouvelles applications des lois; il y aura une discussion également sur comment s’opposer à ces tendances.

Les conférenciers feront des discours en anglais et en français, la traduction chuchottée bilingüe sera offerte. Cet évènement spécial aura lieu jeudi le 12 août de 18h30 à 20h30, faisant partie de la Journée de la justice pour les prisonniers, une commémoration des vies de ceux et celles qui sont morts dans les prisons et centre pénitenciers, y compris les nombreux victimes du système pénitencier qui sont mortres du sida “à l’intérieur”.

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Cette discussion est présenté par: Le projet de correspondance pour prisonnier(e)s, Politi-Q, AIDS Community Care Montreal.

Criminalizing risk:
Discussion and presentations on the criminalization of HIV transmission

THURSDAY AUGUST 12TH from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the Association sportive et communautaire Centre-Sud at 2093 rue de la Visitation (between Sherbrooke East and Ontario)

*** simultaneous whisper translation into french and english ***

This community dialogue and panel discussion will bring together a host of people involved in HIV prevention and HIV legal issues to discuss the recent legal shifts in Canada that have seen the deepening criminalization of HIV transmission, risk, and nondisclosure. The panel will speak to the costs and harms to HIV positive communities brought about by these shifts, as well as how we might confront – and reverse – this trend.

Speakers will present in both french and english. Whisper translation in both directions will be provided. This event will take place as a part of PRISONERS’ JUSTICE DAY efforts across the country, an annual commemoration of the lives of all prisoners who have died while in custody, including the many Canadian prisoners who have died from AIDS related illness while in prison.

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This discussion is co-presented by: the Prisoner Correspondence Project, Politi-Q, and AIDS Community Care Montreal

with the participation of Douglas Foremen and Denis Carrière, prisoners at La Macaza federal penitentiary.

“All the Querelles of the Fighting Navy! Beautiful sailors, you taste sweet, like wild oats!”

June 18th
22h30
Bar Woof: 1661 Ste Catherine E.
$5-$10 No One Turned Away.

click here for costume inspiration or just to enter this gay sailor dreamworld.

djs:
Bad Faith
Querella
Her Madgesty
Baby got Bakunin
and more…

****all proceeds go towards the project****

Feminist Troubles with Protection in a Prison Nation
–a panel featuring Erica Meiners followed by a presentation by the Prisoner Correspondence Project

THURSDAY, MARCH 18th, 2010
4:30-6:30pm
H-760 (7th floor, Hall Building, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West)

Using recent work by anti-prison theorists and community-based activists who are working against prison industrial complex in the US, this talk links prison abolition to feminist frameworks to question escalating sex offender registries and community notification laws that are the state’s response to sexual violence against children and women. This will be followed by a discussion on the queer history of sex offender registries in the United States and their growth in the last two decades, the foundation to use current shifts in the U.S. juvenile justice system, and how using abolition as a possible framework to shift public dialogues about safety and conceptions about childhood and family.

This event is wheelchair accessible; elevators are located on the ground floor of the Hall Building, accessible via de Maisonneuve or Bishop street entrances.

If you require childcare for this event, please contact us 48 hours before the event.

The Prisoner Correspondence Project is a working group of the Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG) at Concordia University.

This event is presented by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.

This year, for the first time, the Project is doing a holiday mailout for the 150+ members of the Project spending the holidays in prison. To raise funds, we’re selling the beautiful holiday card that we’re mailing, based on a screen print by the very talented Ms. Sara Pupo.

The cards are blank and being sold 5 for $10, envelopes included.

To buy a set, you have two options:

A) Via our paypal account. Please include $1 for postage in Canada, $2 for postage in the US and remember to give us your mailing address.

B) Email info@prisonercorrespondenceproject.com with your address and then send a cheque (including $1 for postage in Canada, $2 for postage in the US) made out to “QPIRG-Concordia,” to our mailing address found here:

Here’s hoping your holidays are merry and gay…