{"id":293,"date":"2018-11-15T05:11:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T05:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/experience.syracuse.edu\/the-peel\/?p=293"},"modified":"2018-11-15T15:16:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T15:16:36","slug":"four-things-to-know-about-ruby-corado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/experience.syracuse.edu\/the-peel\/2018\/11\/15\/four-things-to-know-about-ruby-corado\/","title":{"rendered":"Four things to know about Ruby Corado"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Ruby and a group of her friends founded <a href=\"http:\/\/casaruby.org\/\">Casa Ruby<\/a> LGBTQ Community Center. It&#8217;s the only LGBTQ\u00a0bilingual and multicultural organization in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and serves more than 6,000 people each year.<\/li>\n<li>She&#8217;s been advocating for LGBTQ human rights, transgender liberation, immigration equality, access to healthcare, and anti-violence for the last two decades.<\/li>\n<li>Born in El Salvador, Ruby fled when she was only 16, and has lived in Washington, D.C. ever since. Recognizing a lack of services as a young transgender Latina immigrant, Ruby was inspired to serve the underserved and support trans and queer folks in the community.<\/li>\n<li><strong>She&#8217;s the keynote speaker for <a href=\"http:\/\/lgbt.syr.edu\/calendar\/index.html\">Trans Day of Remembrance<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>In honor of International Transgender Day of Remembrance, the LGBT Resource Center is hosting a keynote with Ruby on Nov. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in 214 Slocum Hall. The day memorializes those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia and raises awareness about the continued violence endured by the transgender community.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruby and a group of her friends founded Casa Ruby LGBTQ Community Center. It&#8217;s the only LGBTQ\u00a0bilingual and multicultural organization in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and serves more than 6,000 people each year. She&#8217;s been advocating for LGBTQ human rights, transgender liberation, immigration equality, access to healthcare, and anti-violence for the last two decades.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/experience.syracuse.edu\/the-peel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/experience.syracuse.edu\/the-peel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/experience.syracuse.edu\/the-peel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experience.syracuse.edu\/the-peel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experience.syracuse.edu\/the-peel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/experience.syracuse.edu\/the-peel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/experience.syracuse.edu\/the-peel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/experience.syracuse.edu\/the-peel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experience.syracuse.edu\/the-peel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experience.syracuse.edu\/the-peel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}