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Responding to Violence, Restoring Justice
Tiloma Jayasinghe and Erin Ward
Table of Contents Introduction Feminist anti-violence movement development towards incarceration Criminalization and the feminist anti-violence movement The neoliberal carceral state Prison abolition Community-based alternatives Intersectionality and the feminist anti-violence movement Organizational directory Introduction At a promising moment in the history of the feminist anti-violence movement, a number of activist organizations are carving new means to […]
Read MoreMariame Kaba
Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. She has co-founded multiple organizations and projects over the years including We Charge Genocide, the Chicago Freedom […]
Read MoreBuilding Accountable Communities
Kiyomi Fujikawa, Shannon Perez-Darby, and Mariame Kaba
Accountability is a familiar buzz-word in contemporary social movements, but what does it mean? How do we work toward it? What does it look like to be accountable to survivors without exiling or disposing of those who do harm?
Read MoreS&F Conference: Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence
Simone Browne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Inderpal Grewal, Mariame Kaba, Cara Page, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade
This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference will bring together a broad community of thinkers and organizers to grapple with the ever-deepening penetration of surveillance practices into everyday life, and ways to engage in self-defense against the militarized, racist police state’s demands for constant access in the name of “security” and public order.
Read MoreInvisible 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.
Read MoreTransformative Justice Workshop Resources
Feb 26, 2015
On Friday, February 27th, BCRW Research Assistants and Ejeris Dixon (Founding Director of Vision Change Win Consulting) will facilitate “Transformative Justice Approaches to Sexual Violence on Campus and Beyond”, a workshop at the 40th Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference on education. We (BCRW Research Assistants) have compiled a resources guide to concepts that will be explored at the workshop […]
Read MoreAction on Education
REGISTER DESCRIPTION PROGRAM SPEAKERS Description—#sfedu Speakers include Ujju Aggarwal, Lalaie Ameeriar, Abigail Boggs, The Black Youth Project, Nuala Cabral, Natalia Cecire, Jaz Choi, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Kandice Chuh, Antonia Darder, Dána-Ain Davis, Ejeris Dixon, Tadashi Dozono, Melanie Duch, Rod Ferguson, Cindy Gao, Jamaica Gilmer, Dana Goldstein, Che Gossett, Karen Gregory, Zareena Grewal, Ileana Jiménez, Shenila […]
Read MoreIntergenerational Organizing: Panel Reflection
Apr 17, 2014
The focus of the African Women’s Rights and Resilience Forum at Barnard College on March 12, 2014 was to use different panels of discussion to target and attempt to begin to resolve specific issues that exist in the African feminist movement. The last panel of the evening entitled “Intergenerational Organizing” focused on how activists of […]
Read MoreWomen's Rights and Transnational Feminisms: Panel Reflection
Apr 17, 2014
Contemporarily, aligning with “feminism” is not simply supporting “equity for women.” While this stance might be perceived on a superficial level as the unifying force behind this notion of universal feminism, a more critical approach reveals the ways in which we should not be speaking about feminism, but feminisms. Even within localized Western communities, feminisms […]
Read MoreWomen's Rights and Transnational Feminisms: Panel Reflection
Apr 17, 2014
“Most women in Africa do not have any kind of choice” when it comes to strength and resilience according to Amina Mama. During the conversation on Women’s Rights and Transnational Feminisms, themes of listening as a strategy of transnational feminism, leadership and accountability, and transformation through transformative thinking emerged. When thinking about these key issues, […]
Read MoreExploring the Public Good in New York City
Mar 24, 2014
On Friday, March 28th, local and international scholars, activists, and writers will come together through For the Public Good, a day-long conference co-sponsored by BCRW dedicated to discussion, collaboration, and problem-solving around the current challenges to providing healthy, safe, and fulfilling lives for everyone. The opening panel, Exploring the Public Good in New York City, will feature […]
Read MoreThe Lack of Political Representation for Intersecting Identities
Oct 28, 2013
While the 21st Century has been monumental for the political representation of traditionally marginalized communities, there are still fallacies that prevent these communities from truly gaining recognition. Civil society has fallen short in unionizing the many intersections and identities that characterize many members of marginalized communities. In her article “Gender, Justice, and Neoliberal Transformations,” published in […]
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