Building Accountable Communities
Transcript (PDF) available here.
During the event, questions can be submitted via online form, or you can tweet @bcrwtweets or using the hashtag #transformharm.
Accountability is a familiar buzz-word in contemporary social movements, but what does it mean? How do we work toward it? Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby will join us for an online discussion to explore models for building accountable communities for the purpose of healing and repair. What does it look like to be accountable to survivors without exiling or disposing those who do harm? A series of four short videos exploring these concepts are available below. This conversation will be framed by audience questions in response to these videos, and moderated by Mariame Kaba.
Watch the videos below, contribute questions here, and join us for an online conversation on October 26.
How to Join
This event will take place online only. You can tune in here on the event page, where the conversation will stream live starting at at 4 PM EST on 10/26.
Again, there is no in-person component for this event. We encourage you to organize a viewing party and discuss these important issues with your communities.
Transcript (PDF) available here.
Videos
Part 1: What is Accountability?
Part 2: What is Self-Accountability?
Part 3: Self-Accountability and Survivors
Part 4: People Who do Harm are not Monsters
About the Speakers
Kiyomi Fujikawa works within movements to end gender-based violence, organizing with Queer and Trans communities of color around preventing and responding to intimate partner violence and towards racial, gender and economic justice.
Shannon Perez-Darby has spent 12 years as a community advocate working within LGBTQ communities and communities of color to support survivors of domestic and sexual violence. She is a queer, mixed Latina writer, survivor, community activist and author of the piece “The Secret Joy of Accountability: Self-accountability as a Building Block for Change” in the seminal book The Revolution Starts at Home. Shannon’s passion lies in supporting communities to actualize our dreams in our day-to-day lives.
Mariame Kaba is an organizer and an abolitionist, the founder of Project NIA, co-founder several organizations including of Survived and Punished, and a current BCRW activist in residence.
Details and Accessibility
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is preferred but not required. This is an online event. Please contact BCRW for additional accessibility needs.