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Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 2): Decision-Making
Dean Spade
A workshop on planning and making decisions together in mutual aid groups. This workshop is part of a series of four. Links to additional workshops in the series are below. Slides Poll results Resources Dean Spade: Facilitating Conversations about Capacity in Mutual Aid Groups (video) Dean Spade: Burnout in Mutual Aid Groups (video) Building Capacity […]
Read MoreHow to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
La Marr Jurelle Bruce in conversation with Farah Jasmine Griffin
La Marr Jurelle Bruce, author of How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity, will be joined in conversation by Farah Jasmine Griffin.
Read MoreBuilding Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 1): No Masters, No Flakes!
Dean Spade
A workshop on group culture, capacity, overwork, procrastination, and perfectionism in mutual aid groups.
Read MoreWe Keep Us Safe: Collective Care and Resilience in New York City Public Housing
Jayah Arnett, Camille Napoleon, Saundrea Coleman, and Michael Partis
A conversation around the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on residents of NYCHA and how residents built networks of care and solidarity for each other.
Read MoreMinor Detail: The Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 Salon in Honor of Adania Shibli
Adania Shibli in conversation with Layli Long Soldier and Madeleine Thien
Adania Shibli will be joined by poet Layli Long Soldier and novelist Madeleine Thien to discuss Shibli's haunting novel, Minor Detail.
Read MoreMaking Land Work For Good
Molly Burhans
Presented by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University, a lecture by Molly Burhans (founder and director of GoodLands), moderated by Manan Ahmed (Department of History, Columbia University).
Read MoreSurvival and Resistance: Mutual Aid in Disastrous Times
Naomi Klein, Dean Spade, adrienne maree brown, Klee Benally, and Chandan Reddy (moderator)
As we face cascading crises caused by the extractive systems that still determine the material conditions of our lives, mutual aid is proliferating and drawing more people into resistance work.
Read More“Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration
Victoria Law and Andrea J. Ritchie
What dangerous myths are driving criminalization, policing, and incarceration? What steps can we take to abolish prisons?
Read MoreLivestreamed Concert by Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens performing live with Francesco Turrisi ASL interpretation by Brandon Kazen-Maddox Live transcription is available here. Introduction by Beck Jordan-Young Rhiannon Giddens is a celebrated artist who excavates the past to reveal truths about our present. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens has been Grammy-nominated six times, and won once, for her work with […]
Read MoreKweli: The Color of Children’s Literature Conference
Elizabeth Acevedo, Thanhha Lai, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, and more
Join us April 9th - 11th, 2021 for an incredible weekend with top editors, agents, authors and illustrators in the children's book publishing world.
Read MoreSoft Borders: Conversation with Scherezade Garcia and Nadir Souirgi
Scherezade Garcia and Nadir Souirgi in conversation with Kaiama L. Glover, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College
Visual artists Scherezade Garcia and Nadir Souirgi will be joined by Kaiama L. Glover to discuss migration, colonialism, memory, and identity in their artistic work and practice.
Read More“And what shall we do, we who did not die?”: A Reckoning with June Jordan
Asha Futterman (BC '21), Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev, Evie Shockley, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
During this harrowing year, many of us have returned to June Jordan and her contemporaries in our search for wisdom, as well as provocation, to guide us through the calamities our time.
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