freececemcdonald:

Our sweet CeCe got transferred to Stillwater and back again. Please send her much love by sending her a letter, book or the good vibes!

Dear CeCe Supporter,

As was previously announced, CeCe was transferred  to MCF-Stillwater, at her own request, at the beginning of March.  She was enrolled in the Atlantis treatment program there, which operates in a separate unit from the general population.  She was glad to be at Stillwater for a number of reasons, but was quickly frustrated with the program because of issues ranging from blatant transphobia in the program to the snitching culture that is fostered within it.  We are unclear on the specifics, but she was kicked out and placed in segregation within a few weeks of being there, and received an additional 30 days onto her sentence as a disciplinary measure.  After repeated pleas from her and her advocates to remain at Stillwater and be placed in the general population there, she was instead transferred back to St. Cloud recently.  She remains in segregation.

We are still unsure where she will be placed for the remainder of her sentence, but in the meantime we are calling on folks far and wide to write to her immediately!  Send her your love and let her know she is not alone, that we are all watching out for her, and that we got her back!

Chrishaun McDonald
OID#238072
Minnesota Correctional Facility-St. Cloud
2305 Minnesota Boulevard S.E.
St. Cloud, MN  56304

Keep an eye on this website, or sign up for our mailing list, for the latest information.

With many thanks and lots of love,

CeCe McDonald Support Committee

 

 

widdershinsgirl:

Free CeCe!

dopegirlfresh:

numol:

text in image:

FREE
CECE
MCDONALD

“And so, I ask that you all will not leave your canvases undone.  Use every color imaginable to show who you are inside and out, for every tint and every hue counts.  And as you create your picture remember you are the illustrator, so no one can create your picture but you.  So make it the most precious and most beautiful picture that you can, with love, truth, and joy in every color”
~ CeCe McDonald

http://supportcece.wordpress.com

freececemcdonald:

CeCe’s trial starts Monday, April 30th at 9am.

OUT OF TOWNERS WE NEED YR HELP SUPPORTING CECE!!
Can’t be in court, you can still help support CeCe McDonald through out her trial.

*Re-post & forward EVERYTHING we put out on FB, Tumblr & Twitter. SHIT NEEDS TO GO VIRAL for the main stream media to pay any attention.

*Blog & write yr asses off! Contact yr local media & get them to write or publish articles about CeCe.

*Write letters to the editor of your local papers, let them know about her case!

*Support the Supporters by bringing us lunch. Here’s all the info: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=262345560527681

*Write to CeCe, let her know she is not alone in this. Send her books, send her letters. Info here: http://supportcece.wordpress.com/get-involved/

*Hold a fundraiser for CeCe. We’re still short on our budgeted cost for her & her family’s support.

*Start a CeCe Support Committee in yr area! Info here: http://supportcece.wordpress.com/get-involved/start-a-support-committee/

*Wear PURPLE all through the trial and tell people why yr wearing it. Post pics on our wall of yr community wearing purple, spread the word.

*Change yr profile pic on all yr social media sites to one of CeCe or CeCe inspired Art. We have tons of pics on the FB page.

FB page direct link: http://www.facebook.com/people/FreeCece-Mcdonald/100002567181562

and @freececemcdonald: sorry to bother you, but the link to the post about bringing lunches seems to be broken.  is this the same post here?: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=270907619668322&set=p.270907619668322&type=1

let’s motherfucking GO, y’all!

Shit, I reblog this way too late for the trial, but still it does always needs reblogging, and I suppose you can continue to send support and affection to her, and the quote is wonderful

sherlocksflataffect:

kiriamaya:

queasyfemmeproblems:

mattachinereview:

doctorqueer:

please take a moment to sign this petition and to pass it on.

It asks that CeCe serve her time in a women’s prison rather than a men’s facility, where she is currently set to serve her time.

Hey everyone, I know that you all have nothing but the best of intentions, but recently on Twitter members of CeCe’s support committee have been talking about this.  Here:

The only petition made with CeCe’s consultation was the “Michael Freeman - Drop the Charges”. Nothing else is planned.

And here:

Dear everyone: stop starting petitions for CeCe without consulting with her or her support committee. It’s not about you. ‪#freecece

Let’s please respect CeCe’s wishes and the work of those on the ground trying to help her.

Oh shit, kicking myself for not following the source on this one. Cece should absolutely have as much control as possible over her PR strategy and none of us(!!!! D:) should be taking that away from her.

Eeep, yeah, good point. Thanks, and I apologize.

Oops. My apologies.

Ouch, really sorry… I… 

Well please pass the message, if you can reblog this

sherlocksflataffect:

checkdatprivilege:

goldenheartedrose:

Petition to move CeCe to a women’s facility

doctorqueer:

please take a moment to sign this petition and to pass it on.

It asks that CeCe serve her time in a women’s prison rather than a men’s facility, where she is currently set to serve her time.

F: come on guys, this is a brand new petition, get it going! The shit women get when they are placed in the men’s section of prison, the comodification, rape, humiliation for their being trans - nope, not happening.

Sign & share. CeCe should not be in prison at all, but putting her in a men’s prison, that’s just…no. No no no.

Sign this, really, sign this.

EDIT: PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE DOING ANYTHING: http://humainsvolants.tumblr.com/post/24534002002/please-stop-forwarding-around-petitions-w-o-consulting

numol:

humainsvolants:

(picture made on computer of Rihanna popping out of  a cake where it is written: “Happy Birthday Cece! with fireworks around)

freececemcdonald:

CeCe McDonald’s Birthday Party!!!

CeCe’s 24th birthday is on Saturday the 26th! We’re all meeting up at the Hennepin County Jail in Downtown Minneapolis at 6pm. She will be having dinner in her cell at 6pm so we’re gonna sing her happy birthday, dance to some Rihanna & Beyonce while eating birthday cake. We won’t be able to see her but she’ll be able to hear us!

Come show yr love for our girl by helping her celebrate her day of birth. Even behind bars she should have a birthday filled with the love of her community!

Bring:
*Musical Instruments
*BULLHORN
*Birthday hats
*Lots of friends!

http://www.facebook.com/events/460120307336998/

CeCe’s always wanted Rihanna to pop out of a cake for her. We’ve been tweeting her but she hasn’t answered. This is as close as we could get! All the love to CeCe!

TONIGHT

edit: ALSO:

post about ways to help: http://freececemcdonald.tumblr.com/post/22557822783/folks-are-asking-whats-next-how-can-we-help

[if the paypal link in that post does not work, try this one (link)]

petition: “GOV. MARK DAYTON: Pardon CeCe McDonald” (link)

contact info for Gov. Dayton (link):

Mailing Address:

75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55155

Other ways to reach our office:

Telephone: 651-201-3400 
Toll Free: 800-657-3717 
Minnesota Relay 800-627-3529 
Fax: 651-797-1850 
Contact the Governor’s Office

some online free faxing places:

• http://www.gotfreefax.com (up to 2 a day for free)
• http://faxzero.com (allegedly up to 2 a day for free but one of those usually causes an error)
• http://www.myfax.com/free (up to 2 a day for free)

Ah yes, Important!

(picture made on computer of Rihanna popping out of  a cake where it is written: “Happy Birthday Cece! with fireworks around)

freececemcdonald:

CeCe McDonald’s Birthday Party!!!

CeCe’s 24th birthday is on Saturday the 26th! We’re all meeting up at the Hennepin County Jail in Downtown Minneapolis at 6pm. She will be having dinner in her cell at 6pm so we’re gonna sing her happy birthday, dance to some Rihanna & Beyonce while eating birthday cake. We won’t be able to see her but she’ll be able to hear us!

Come show yr love for our girl by helping her celebrate her day of birth. Even behind bars she should have a birthday filled with the love of her community!

Bring:
*Musical Instruments
*BULLHORN
*Birthday hats
*Lots of friends!

http://www.facebook.com/events/460120307336998/

CeCe’s always wanted Rihanna to pop out of a cake for her. We’ve been tweeting her but she hasn’t answered. This is as close as we could get! All the love to CeCe!

TRIGGER WARNING BUT IMPORTANT

catamite:

GOV. MARK DAYTON: Pardon CeCe McDonald [petition]

numol:

please sign and pass this around as much as possible:

Self-defense is not a crime.

Surviving is not a crime.

And yet, in the city of Minneapolis, a woman has been convicted of exactly that. CeCe McDonald, a young trans woman, was convicted of manslaughter. Manslaughter, in this case, meaning the act of defending herself from her attackers. Several men attacked her, with the obvious intent to kill, on the basis of her race and gender identity. In the act of protecting her own life, she killed one; and was charged with murder.

As if this was not enough, the judge in her case was quite obviously biased against her from the start. He selectively excluded evidence that could cast her attacker in a negative light, while permitting evidence that cast her in a negative light. As such, she accepted a plea bargain, down from forty years. And she was sentenced to over three years in a men’s prison.

A woman was sentenced to a men’s prison, for the crime of defending herself from someone who intended to kill her. In such a place, she will almost certainly face more of the same, and worse.

Please, reverse this decision. Pardon her. Let justice prevail.

[ via @Free_CeCe’s retweet of https://twitter.com/#!/ihatehackney/status/198405894793478146 ]

contact info for Gov. Dayton (link):

Mailing Address:

Office of the Governor
130 State Capitol
75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55155

Other ways to reach our office:

Telephone: 651-201-3400 
Toll Free: 800-657-3717 
Minnesota Relay 800-627-3529 
Fax: 651-797-1850 
Contact the Governor’s Office

some online free faxing places:

• http://www.gotfreefax.com (up to 2 a day for free)
• http://faxzero.com (allegedly up to 2 a day for free but one of those usually causes an error)
• http://www.myfax.com/free (up to 2 a day for free)

nekobakaz:

GOV. MARK DAYTON: Pardon CeCe McDonald [petition]

numol:

please sign and pass this around as much as possible:

Self-defense is not a crime.

Surviving is not a crime.

And yet, in the city of Minneapolis, a woman has been convicted of exactly that. CeCe McDonald, a young trans woman, was convicted of manslaughter. Manslaughter, in this case, meaning the act of defending herself from her attackers. Several men attacked her, with the obvious intent to kill, on the basis of her race and gender identity. In the act of protecting her own life, she killed one; and was charged with murder.

As if this was not enough, the judge in her case was quite obviously biased against her from the start. He selectively excluded evidence that could cast her attacker in a negative light, while permitting evidence that cast her in a negative light. As such, she accepted a plea bargain, down from forty years. And she was sentenced to over three years in a men’s prison.

A woman was sentenced to a men’s prison, for the crime of defending herself from someone who intended to kill her. In such a place, she will almost certainly face more of the same, and worse.

Please, reverse this decision. Pardon her. Let justice prevail.

[ via @Free_CeCe’s retweet of https://twitter.com/#!/ihatehackney/status/198405894793478146 ]

contact info for Gov. Dayton (link):

Mailing Address:

Office of the Governor
130 State Capitol
75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55155

Other ways to reach our office:

Telephone: 651-201-3400 
Toll Free: 800-657-3717 
Minnesota Relay 800-627-3529 
Fax: 651-797-1850 
Contact the Governor’s Office

some online free faxing places:

• http://www.gotfreefax.com (up to 2 a day for free)
• http://faxzero.com (allegedly up to 2 a day for free but one of those usually causes an error)
• http://www.myfax.com/free (up to 2 a day for free)

nekobakaz:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

freececemcdonald:

Please visit http://supportcece.wordpress.com/ to find out more!

Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald is a young African American transgender woman who is charged with two counts of “second degree murder” after an incident that began when she was violently assaulted because of her gender and race. We say NO to racism and transphobia, and call on Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman to DROP THE CHARGES!

Her trial starts Monday, April 30th at 9am.

if you’re a white trans person and you haven’t reblogged about CeCe a million times i hate you

i’m not trans, but damnit, I’m going to reblog every time I see this on my dash

Ooops, I really reblog this too late