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Resisting Gendered State Violence Across Turtle Island: Cross-Border Solidarity Against Anti-Blackness

Robyn Maynard, author of best-selling Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Robyn Maynard will discuss similarities and differences in histories, tactics, modes, and consequences of state violence targeting Black communities in the U.S., Canada and at the border, articulating critical questions and strategies for cross-border solidarity, organizing, and resistance in the current political moment.

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Black Lives Matter, borders, Canada, cross-border solidarity, organizing strategy, policing, Robyn Maynard, state violence, Turtle Island, United States

S&F Conference: Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence

Simone Browne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Inderpal Grewal, Mariame Kaba, Cara Page, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade

This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference will bring together a broad community of thinkers and organizers to grapple with the ever-deepening penetration of surveillance practices into everyday life, and ways to engage in self-defense against the militarized, racist police state’s demands for constant access in the name of “security” and public order.

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borders, Deportation, immigration, police, prison, self-defense, state violence, surveillance, technology