What is Transformative Justice?

Featuring adrienne maree brown, Mia Mingus, Stas Schmiedt, Ann Russo, Esteban Kelly, Martina Kartman, Priya Rai, and Shira Hassan

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How Shame Can Block Accountability

Stas Schmiedt and Lea Roth talk about how coming from a framework of shame can shut us down and get in the way of authentic accountability.

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Consent is Accountability

Stas Schmiedt and Lea Roth discuss why they see consent as transformative justice and how we can use consent to learn concrete tools to negotiate power dynamics.

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What are Obstacles to Accountability?

Featuring Sonya Shah, nuri nusrat, Mimi Kim, Ann Russo, Esteban Kelly, adrienne marie brown, Rachel Herzing, Stas Schmiedt, Lea Roth, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Mia Mingus.

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Building a Powerful Grassroots HIV/AIDS Movement

JD Davids, Che Gossett, Imani Henry, and Jason Walker discuss what it looks like to build a truly grassroots movement around HIV/AIDS that centers the people most impacted.

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Who Leads the Fight Against HIV/AIDS?

Che Gossett, Jason Walker, and Imani Henry discuss how professionalization of the fight against HIV/AIDS leaves out the people most impacted.

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Social Service Or Social Change: Building Political Power for People with HIV/AIDS

Che Gossett, Jason Walker, and Imani Henry offer a view of how nonprofitization of the fight against HIV/AIDS created a divide between service provision and movements for social change.

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N’Tanya Lee: Grassroots Organizing Builds Power

N'Tanya Lee discusses why base-building is fundamental to all social justice work and the need for a new left with a vision for longterm social change.

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N’Tanya Lee: Building Real Coalitional Queer Struggle

N'Tanya Lee discusses the shortfalls of single-issue queer organizing, reflecting on her work in the 90s, and how she carries those lessons into her current work through base-building and grassroots organizing within working-class communities of color.

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People Who do Harm are not Monsters

Building Accountabile Communities // Part 4 Conversation featuring Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby

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Self-Accountability and Survivors

Building Accountabile Communities // Part 3 Conversation featuring Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby

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What is Self-Accountability?

Building Accountabile Communities // Part 2 Conversation featuring Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby

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