S&F Online Launch Party: Unraveling Criminalizing Webs
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) 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?
Please join us in celebrating the launch of this issue with co-editor Andrea J. Ritchie and other contributors on Monday, October 28, 6–8 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
About the Issue
Unraveling Criminalizing Webs: Building Police Free Futures
Guest edited by Andrea J. Ritchie and Levi Craske
With contributors LeeAnn Adkins, Mizue Aizeki, Gabriel Arkles, Erin Miles Cloud, Ejeris Dixon, Jeanne Flavin, Kassandra Frederique, LaLa Holston-Zanell, Chaumtoli Huq, Simone John, Mariame Kaba, Joo-Hyun Kang, Alexis Yeboah-Kodie, Robyn Maynard, Meryleen Mena, Kate Mogulescu, Victoria Law, Dinah Ortiz, Cara Page, Lynn Paltrow, Dorothy Roberts, Dean Spade, and K.B. White
Tackling “broken windows” policing, the war on drugs, immigration enforcement, policing of gender, sexuality, pregnancy and parenthood, and police responses to gender-based violence through the lens of women, trans and gender nonconforming people’s experiences, through first person narratives, poetry, essays, and video clips from the conference, contributors come together to issue a clarion call for dismantling criminalizing webs and working toward police free futures where ongoing police killings and violence targeting Black women, trans and gender nonconforming people and women, trans and gender nonconforming people of color would not be possible.
This issue brings together contributions from speakers who presented their work during BCRW’s 2017 conference, Invisible No More: Resisting Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color in Troubled Times, which explored and built on themes from BCRW Researcher-in-Residence Andrea J. Ritchie’s book Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Beacon 2017).
Image credit: A Long Walk Home’s The Visibility Project/Sarah-Ji/Love + Struggle Photos