It’s the third Monday of the month, which means Chances Dances is going on at SubT’s.  Tonight’s monthly dance party is a benefit for the Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois (TJLP) and an affiliate organization Write to Win Collective .  Write to Win is a group we’ve mentioned before who finds pen pals for transgendered, queer and otherwise gender-variant people surviving in Illinois prisons.   TJLP provides free legal services to low-income and street based transgender and gender non-conforming people targeted by the criminal legal system, in addition to doing educational and solidarity work around issues of gender self-determination and prison abolition.

So if you want to challenge the binary gender system and the prison-industrial complex while dancing, there’s really only one place to be.

Meanwhile, The Hideout will be hosting another important benefit, as an emergency response to the recent earthquake in Haiti.  The show will feature the Waco Brothers and Eleventh Dream Day, along with a bake sale and poster sale with posters from Judge Works (who made this excellent poster above).  Tickets are $20, with all funds from tickets, posters and brownies going to Partners In Health.

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