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Care Not Cops: Youth Safety Planning in a World Without Policing

Safety planning skill-share focusing on how to use the Bay Area Transformative Justice Pod-Mapping Tool

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Abolition, policing

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

On the Road to Abolition: Archiving Resistance to the Carceral State

Simon Balto and Emily Thuma, moderated by Mariame Kaba

Emily Thuma and Simon Balto, in conversation with Mariame Kaba, will discuss histories of resistance to prisons and policing, offering roadmaps and lessons for contemporary struggles.

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Abolition, anti-policing, anti-prison, anti-violence, Black Power, policing, prison newsletters, prison-psychiatric state, prisons, self-defense

Immigrants and Refugees Are Welcome Here: A Resource Guide for Service Providers Working with Immigrants who are LGBTQ, Sex Workers, and/or HIV-Positive

Amber Hollibaugh, Queer Survival Economies

This resource guide is intended for service providers to improve their competency to better assist clients in these dangerous times, and reduce secondary traumas in their practice. It is intended as a living document to be used and adapted based on feedback from clients, community members, activists, and service providers, as well as changes to our political landscape.

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Amber Hollibaugh, best practices, border militarization, HIV/AIDS, immigrants, LGBTQ, policing, Queer Survival Economies, resource, service provider, sex workers

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

“The fake road, its cruel deception, is what we have to abandon”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons

Featuring Jordan Camp, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Christina Heatherton, and Mariame Kaba, moderated by Tina Campt at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."

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policing, prison, prison abolition, Scholar and Feminist Conference, state violence, surveillance

“its known and unknown powers / to bind and dissociate”: Forensic Surveillance and the Policing of Biology

Featuring Shoshana Magnet, Cara Page, Rori Rohlfs, and Harriet Washington, moderated by Anthony Ureña at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."

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biology, eugenics, policing, policing biology, race science, racism, Scholar and Feminist Conference, surveillance

“they said in the name of self-defense”: Technologies of Surveillance and the Selling of the In/Security State

Featuring Rabab Abdulhadi, Dylan Rodríguez, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade, moderated by Craig Willse, at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."

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anti-militarism, anti-war, militarism, militarized police, palestine, Palestine solidarity, policing, Scholar and Feminist Conference, surveillance, trans, trans liberation, war

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: 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: 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

Andrea Ritchie: Invisible No More (Preview)

Excerpt from a lecture by Andrea Ritchie, author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color.

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Abolition, Andrea Ritchie, anti-violence, criminalization, Invisible No More, policing