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Abolition on the Ground: Reporting from the Movement to #DefundthePolice

Angélica Cházaro, Erica Perry, and Andrea Ritchie, moderated by Dean Spade

Join us for a conversation with abolitionist organizers and lawyers leading this work to talk about lessons learned in #defundthepolice mobilizations, how this work fits into the larger abolitionist vision for a world without cages or borders, and the key strategic questions facing the movement now. 

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Abolition, Defund police

Transformative Justice in the Era of #DefundPolice: Lessons from the Past, Strategizing for the Future

Online event featuring Shira Hassan and Mimi Kim

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accountability, building accountable communities, transformative justice

Transformative Justice in the Era of #DefundPolice: Lessons from the Past, Strategizing for the Future

Shira Hassan and Mimi Kim

Shira Hassan and Mimi Kim will join us for a conversation about the history and development of transformative justice, its importance in current movements towards liberation, and everyday practices.

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#defundpolice, Abolition, accountability, anti-violence, building accountable communities, transformative justice

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

“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

“in this time of siege for me and mine, mi raza”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons

Featuring Rachel Ida Buff, Inderpal Grewal, Arun Kundnani, and Marlene Nava Ramos, moderated by Manu Vimalassery at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."

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militarism, militarized police, normalization, Police Violence, Scholar and Feminist Conference, state violence, surveillance

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: Resisting Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color in Troubled Times

Barbara Smith, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Tourmaline, Mariame Kaba & others

This conference is the first in a series of events taking place in the midwest, south, and west coast to explore and support ongoing resistance to police violence against Black women and women of color.

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Abolition, Andrea Ritchie, anti-black racism, Barbara Smith, black feminism, broken windows policing, Dean Spade, Elle Hearns, Islamophobia, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Mariame Kaba, Police Violence, state violence, Tourmaline

Police Out of Pride

Jun 25, 2016

Share this GIF: http://gph.is/28U3BeM Police out of Pride, out of our lives & out of business now! GIFS by Dean Spade + Hope Dector. Featuring art by Micah Bazant. Share this GIF: thttp://gph.is/28WOgLI More on queer liberation and resistance to police & prisons: Police + Prisons Don’t Keep Us Safe – We Keep Each Other Safe […]

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Invisible No More: Ending Police Violence Against Women and LGBTQ People of Color

Invisible No More: Racial Profiling and Police Brutality Against Women and LGBTQ People of Color, full-length lecture by Andrea Ritchie, author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, on racial profiling and police violence against Black women.

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Dean Spade: History of Queers Against Police

Dean Spade talks about the dramatic shifts in queer and trans movements over the last 50 years with the emergence in the 1990s of a highly visible and well-funded gay rights movement whose demand for inclusion in hate crime legislation and police protection goes against queer and trans community-based grassroots organizing to end police and state violence since the 1960s.

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activism, class, gender, history, intersectionality, politics, prisons, queer, race, transgender, violence

Police + Prisons Don’t Keep Us Safe–We Keep Each Other Safe

CeCe McDonald joins prison abolition activists Reina Gossett and Dean Spade in a conversation about her own experiences surviving trauma and impossible situations, and the importance of collective organizing for people facing systems of violence.

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activism, class, economic justice, gender, human rights, politics, prisons, queer, race, transgender, violence