Help use art, music, and human rights workshops to change the lives of LGBT women in Mexico.

Why we care: LGBT women in Mexico face “double” discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation.

How we’re solving this: Providing art and music workshops and forming an LGBT choir to harness the power of community, promote LGBT rights, and address daily struggles.

In recent years, the progressive government in Mexico City approved same-sex marriage and declared that all districts must recognize same-sex couples. However, the conservative backlash is constant, and implementation of the law is poor. Lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered women face particular discrimination related to their gender and, for a long time, have remained invisible even within the larger gay rights movements. Join the push to help Clóset de Sor Juana take advantage of this window of opportunity under a progressive government and defend the rights of women who face discrimination based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.

Clóset de Sor Juana is using art, music, and human rights workshops to change the lives of LGBT women. Through the formation of a choir of lesbian, bisexual, and trans women called, “Vocal Transmission,” the group provides a community support group for these women. This year, the choir will perform three concerts about the experiences and struggles of LGBT women. The choir expects to raise their voices of strength to over 200 people attending the concerts.

Additionally, Clóset de Sor Juana will conduct two human rights workshops for 50 LGBT women. Each workshop will run for three months and focus on strengthening the link between art, political action, and social change. Participants will come from a variety of disciplines–literature, theater, art, music, and more–in order to lend their talents to the promotion of human rights and a strong LGBT community for women.

Art and song are powerful tools for bringing diverse peoples and opinions together to form consensus, and LGBT women in Mexico are harnessing this power to ensure their rights.