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Unraveling Criminalizing Webs: Building Police Free Futures

Andrea J. Ritchie and Levi Craske '18

This issue of S&F Online invites us to contemplate the question: If not police, then what? How must our everyday conversations, celebrations, and community creations lead us on a path toward transformative approaches to safety and healing?

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anti-criminalization, anti-violence, criminalization, police, prison abolition

S&F Online Launch Party: Unraveling Criminalizing Webs

Andrea J. Ritchie

Celebrating the newest issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, "Unraveling Criminalizing Webs: Building Police Free Futures," guest edited by BCRW Researcher-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie and Levi Craske (BC '18), which  invites us to contemplate the question: If not police, then what?

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anti-violence, Black Women, criminalization, femmes, gender nonconforming, gender-based violence, policing, racism, trans, transformative justice, transgender, women of color

Valerie Seeley: Interview by Victoria Law

Seeley discusses being criminalized for self defense, being granted clemency after 17 years in prison, and why she's fighting for the freedom of women and girls still inside.

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#FreeThemAll, Abolition, clemency, criminalization, domestic violence, gender violence, mass commutations, prison, sexual violence, Survived and Punished

Alisha Walker: Survived and Punished

Alisha Walker is in prison for defending her life. #FreeAlisha

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Alisha Walker, criminalization, sex work, Survived and Punished

Bresha Meadows: Survived and Punished

Bresha Meadows is a young Black girl incarcerated for defending her life against domestic violence. She is one of tens of thousands of girls and young women locked up behind bars across the United States facing violence at the hands of the criminal punishment system. #FreeBresha, free them all!

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#FreeBresha, Bresha Meadows, criminalization, incarceration, prison abolition, Survived and Punished

Invisible No More: Criminalizing Webs

Featuring Kassandra Frederique (New York State Director, Drug Policy Alliance), Joo-Hyun Kang (Director, Communities United for Police Reform), Mizue Aizeki (Deputy Director, Immigrant Defense Project), and Chaumtoli Huq (Law@TheMargins)

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criminalization, Invisible No More

Invisible No More: Policing Girls

Featuring Cedra Sebastien (Associate Director, The Brotherhood/Sisterhood Sol), Firdaws Roufai (Youth Leader, The Brotherhood/Sisterhood Sol), Miaija Jawara (Urban Youth Collaborative), and Octavia Y. Lewis (Trans Health Activist & Young Women's Initiative). Moderated by Joanne Smith (Girls for Gender Equity)

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criminalization, gender, Invisible No More, policing

Invisible No More: Police Responses to Violence

Featuring Mariame Kaba (Co-Founder, Survived & Punished and Project NIA), Cara Page (Activist in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women), Jemisha Williams (Audre Lorde Project, Safe Outside the System), and Renata Hill (New Jersey 7). Moderated by Ejeris Dixon (Vision Change Win Consulting)

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anti-violence, criminalization, violence

Invisible No More: Policing Motherhood

Featuring Erin Cloud (Team Leader, Family Defense Project, Bronx Defenders), Victoria Law (author), Dorothy Roberts (Professor, University of Pennsylvania), Jeanne Flavin (Professor, Fordham University), and Dinah Ortiz (Parent Advocate Supervisor, Family Defense Project, Bronx Defenders). Moderated by Monifa Bandele (Vice-President, MomsRising)

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criminalization, gender, motherhood, policing

Invisible No More: Policing Gender and Sex

Featuring Gabriel Arkles (Senior Staff Attorney, LGBT & HIV Project of the ACLU), Dean Spade (Activist in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women), Kate Mogulescu (Professor, Brooklyn Law School), Bianey Garcia (Lead Organizer, Make the Road NY), and LaLa Zanell (Lead Organizer, NYC Anti-Violence Project)

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criminalization, gender, Invisible No More, sex

Invisible No More: From Combahee to Stonewall to Say Her Name & Beyond

Featuring Barbara Smith (Founder, Combahee River Collective), Reina Gossett (Filmmaker and Activist in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women), Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (Professor, Columbia University School of Law), Mariame Kaba (Co-Founder, Survived and Punished and Project NIA), and Robyn Maynard (author, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present). Moderated by Tina Campt (Director, Barnard Center for Research on Women)

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criminalization, Invisible No More

Invisible No More: Chicago

Invisible No More, a panel discussion featuring Beth Richie, Cynthia Blair, Nadine Naber, Barbara Ransby, Deana Lewis, Janaé Bonsu, Page May, Sangeetha Ravichandran, Alexis Pegues, and LaSaia Wade

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#BlackLivesMatter, criminalization, gender, Invisible No More, policing