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Atlantic is a Sea of Bones

Year: 2017

Atlantic is a Sea of Bones

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Directed by Tourmaline, produced by Sasha Wortzel and Hope Dector, this experimental short film starring Egyptt LaBeija explores how small every day acts of refusal, resistance, and existence—such as performance and self expression—have a tremendous impact on the world.

Bresha Meadows: Survived and Punished

Bresha Meadows - Survived and Punished

Bresha Meadows is a young Black girl incarcerated for defending her life against domestic violence. She is one of tens of thousands of girls and young women locked up behind bars across the United States facing violence at the hands of the criminal punishment system. #FreeBresha, free them all!

Invisible No More: Criminalizing Webs

Invisible No More: Criminalizing Webs

Featuring Kassandra Frederique (New York State Director, Drug Policy Alliance), Joo-Hyun Kang (Director, Communities United for Police Reform), Mizue Aizeki (Deputy Director, Immigrant Defense Project), and Chaumtoli Huq (Law@TheMargins)

Invisible No More: Policing Girls

Invisible No More: Policing Girls

Featuring Cedra Sebastien (Associate Director, The Brotherhood/Sisterhood Sol), Firdaws Roufai (Youth Leader, The Brotherhood/Sisterhood Sol), Miaija Jawara (Urban Youth Collaborative), and Octavia Y. Lewis (Trans Health Activist & Young Women’s Initiative). Moderated by Joanne Smith (Girls for Gender Equity)

Invisible No More: Police Responses to Violence

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)

Invisible No More: Policing Motherhood

Policing Motherhood

Featuring Erin Cloud (Team Leader, Family Defense Project, Bronx Defenders), Victoria Law (author), Dorothy Roberts (Professor, University of Pennsylvania), Jeanne Flavin (Professor, Fordham University), and Dinah Ortiz (Parent Advocate Supervisor, Family Defense Project, Bronx Defenders). Moderated by Monifa Bandele (Vice-President, MomsRising)

Invisible No More: Policing Gender and Sex

Invisible No More: Policing Gender and Sex

Featuring Gabriel Arkles (Senior Staff Attorney, LGBT & HIV Project of the ACLU), Dean Spade (Activist in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women), Kate Mogulescu (Professor, Brooklyn Law School), Bianey Garcia (Lead Organizer, Make the Road NY), and LaLa Zanell (Lead Organizer, NYC Anti-Violence Project)

Invisible No More: From Combahee to Stonewall to Say Her Name & Beyond

Invisible No More: From Combahee to Stonewall

Featuring Barbara Smith (Founder, Combahee River Collective), Tourmaline (Filmmaker and Activist in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women), Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (Professor, Columbia University School of Law), Mariame Kaba (Co-Founder, Survived and Punished and Project NIA), and Robyn Maynard (author, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present). Moderated by Tina Campt (Director, Barnard Center for Research on Women)

Invisible No More: Chicago

Invisible No More Chicago

Invisible No More, a panel discussion featuring Beth Richie, Cynthia Blair, Nadine Naber, Barbara Ransby, Deana Lewis, Janaé Bonsu, Page May, Sangeetha Ravichandran, Alexis Pegues, and LaSaia Wade

Marissa Alexander: Survived and Punished

Marissa Alexander Survived and Punished

Marissa Alexander is a survivor of domestic violence who was sentenced to a 20 year mandatory minimum sentence for firing a single warning shot into the ceiling. Learn about her story and the creative organizing that successfully fought for her freedom.

Joan Little: Survived and Punished

Joan Little was the first woman acquitted of murder on the grounds of of self-defense against sexual violence. Learn about her story and the global organizing that successfully fought for her freedom.

The Ability to Live: What Trump’s Health Cuts Mean for People with Disabilities

The Ability to Live

In this video, Patty Berne and Stacey Milbern discuss the Trump administration’s proposed Medicaid cuts and the disastrous effects these cutswill have on people with disabilities, cutting “right to the core of being able tolive.” The budget priorities and cuts of right-wing and fascist regimes reveal volumes about who is valued and viable in a society and who is not. The Trump administration’s proposed cuts to Medicaid declare people with disabilities, poor people, young […]

Ableism is the Bane of My Motherfuckin’ Existence

Ableism is the bane of my existence

Activists Patty Berne and Stacey Milbern expand on the disability justice framework and the need for a politicized understanding of ableism within a context of racism, classism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy.

My Body Doesn’t Oppress Me, Society Does

My Body Doesn't Oppress Me, Society Does

Disability justice activists Patty Berne and Stacey Milbern discuss social models of accessibility and the social, economic, and physical barriers that render physical impairments disabling in an ableist society.

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