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Visions of Abolition: Black Women’s Fight to End Mass Incarceration
Nicole Fleetwood
Nicole Fleetwood will join us to discuss art and visual advocacy by black women to abolish prisons and to end punitive governance.
Read More“Pilgrim” and “Crow Requiem”: Screening and Talk with Cauleen Smith
Cauleen Smith (filmmaker, Professor, California Institute of the Arts) in conversation with Tina Campt (Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University)
Cauleen Smith’s short films “Pilgrim” (2016) and “Crow Requiem” (2015) offer two journeys through Black presence, life, culture, and history, provoking viewers into an experience of time and place that exceeds habitual borders.
Read MoreTransformative Justice in the Apocalypse: Beyond Survival One Year Later
Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, RJ Maccani, India Harris, YaliniDream, and Woods Ervin, moderated by Kenyon Farrow
What are the tools, conversations, and actions we need to take in this moment of transformative justice and abolition work?
Read MoreTeach In: Money-Handling and Taxes for Mutual Aid Groups
Mike Haber and Dean Spade
Click here to access Mike’s powerpoint slides from this event. This online teach-in is for mutual aid groups facing nuts and bolts issues that come with the work we’ve all been doing. How has your group been funnelling money to people in need, and what are the tax consequences? How should we store money we […]
Read MoreCrafting Objects, Crafting Community: Gender and Material Culture in American Religion
Jodi Eichler-Levine, Alyssa J. Maldonado-Estrada
Jodi Eichler-Levine and Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada will be in conversation about their new books examining the role of material culture in shaping gender, memory, community, and identity in American Judaism and Catholicism.
Read MoreTaking Children: A History of American Terror
Laura Briggs, Dina Francesca Haynes, Valeria Luiselli
The three panelists will address the long history of policies of family separation in light of the current anti-migrant federal policy on the southern border of the United States.
Read MoreWe Keep Each Other Safe: Mutual Aid for Survival and Solidarity
Dean Spade, Mariame Kaba, and Ejeris Dixon
Dean Spade, Ejeris Dixon, and Mariame Kaba discuss mutual aid as an abolitionist project.
Read MoreFeed the Fire: A Cyber Symposium in Honor of Geri Allen
Terri Lyne Carrington, Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Fred Moten, and more
Celebrating the work of the late pianist, composer, improvisor, and educator Geri Allen, and launching the special issue of the journal Jazz and Culture, “The Power of Geri Allen.”
Read MoreTransformative 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.
Read MoreQueer Asylum: ‘This is Who I Am’ – LGBTQI+ Experiences of the UK Asylum Process
Performers will read first-hand accounts of the particular challenges faced by LGBTQI+ individuals seeking sanctuary and basic human rights in the UK.
Read MoreThe Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics
Janet Jakobsen in conversation with Sydnie Mosley, Ann Pellegrini, Pamela Phillips, Dean Spade, and Tourmaline
A conversation on The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics, a new book by Janet Jakobsen.
Read MoreBlack Lesbian Conference: Revolutionary Wellness
BEYOND BOLD AND BRAVE presents the 3rd Biennial Black Lesbian Conference
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