PRESENTED BY: Dyke+ ArtHaus in Philadelphia and Let’s Get Free, The Women & Trans Prisoner Defense Committee in Pittsburgh
ORGANIZED BY: Carolyn Harper and Juno Rosenhaus
CURATED BY: Juno Rosenhaus
ON VIEW at the Dyke+ ArtHaus: April 11 - May 11, 2025
Kal-El’s Website: https://z-coded.org/
GALLERY HOURS THROUGH 5/11
Fri: 4-6p
Sat: 1-5p (with exception of Closing on 5/10)
Sun: 2-5p
ALL WORK IS FOR SALE
100% of all sales go directly to Kal-El Carey
CLOSING: Saturday, May 10, 5-7pm
6pm Reading Event - Sonja Dahl from the Coalition to Abolish Death By Incarceration (CADBI) will read statements by trans women incarcerated at different PA prisons.
PANEL DISCUSSION: “Z-CODED: Trans and Incarcerated Under Authoritarianism”
April 11, 2025 at the Dyke+ ArtHaus
Facilitated by Juno Rosenhaus
Kal-El Carey’s Words Read by Carolyn Harper
PANEL SPEAKERS:
Chaco Iwase & Jendy DeLeon, Let's Get Free
Lolo Serrano, Abolitionist Law Center
Monica Copestakes, Womxn Beyond Borders & Hearts on a Wire
Sappho Reynan Fulton, Founder, Womxn Beyond Borders
“I have been fighting the PA DOC for trans healthcare and trans rights since 2017 and at times I feel like we're always back to square one. With the new 47 guy in office I KNOW we're going to be set back 5-10 years. We are hated by many and I take that fury inside of me and try to create beauty. My dreams are not always inspirational ones. Some are dark and I paint as such. But I bring color to that darkness. I speak out loud on my canvases and pray that someone hears me. My paintings say what I cannot without penalty or judgement.”
~Kal-El Carey