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Abortion as Abolition
Rafa Kidvai (Repro Legal Defense Fund, founder)
The goal of this event is to bring light to activists and scholars dealing with the increased criminalization of abortion care and pregnancy outcomes, and how the police state and criminal legal system works in conflict with the principles of reproductive justice. Importantly, we want to frame self-managed abortion as an abolitionist praxis. We also […]
Read MoreThis Flame Within: An Interview with Manijeh Moradian
Jan 16, 2023
In November, Manijeh Moradian (Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College) published This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States (Duke University Press), a new book on the radical organizing efforts of US-based Iranian students in the 1960-70s. The book arrives at an extraordinary moment as Iranians protest the killing of Mahsa […]
Read MoreTeaching with the Archive: Feminist Abolition
Malkia Okech
Join us for an archive and art workshop that considers grounding our resistance to police and prisons through history and art.
Read MoreNo borders! No prisons! No cops! No war! No state?
A conversation with Harsha Walia, William Anderson, and Dean Spade
This event gathers three leading thinkers whose work questions the desire to take over the state, to discuss the stakes of this question for abolitionist work right now.
Read MoreAbolish Mandatory Reporting and Family Policing
A conversation with Erin Miles Cloud, Jasmine Wali, and Shannon Perez-Darby moderated by Dean Spade
How do movements for abolition of mandatory reporting and family policing intersect with larger movements for abolition of the criminal legal system?
Read MoreFarewell and Thank You, Interrupting Criminalization
Feb 2, 2022
Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action is an initiative led by researchers Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie. The project aims to interrupt and end the growing criminalization and incarceration of women and LGBTQ people of color for criminalized acts related to public order, poverty, child welfare, drug use, survival and self-defense. The project pays special […]
Read MoreIntroductory Remarks to “Virgin Capital: Tami Navarro and Tamara K. Nopper in Conversation”
Dec 1, 2021
In A Burst of Light and Other Essays, an account of her living with cancer, Audre Lorde concludes the epilogue with, “I work, I love, I rest, I see and learn. And I report. These are my givens. Not sureties, but a firm belief that whether or not living them with joy prolongs my life, […]
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 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 More46th Annual Scholar and Feminist Conference: Art and Political Imagination
Feb 9, 2021
avFilm screening and conversation with filmmaker Cauleen Smith, lecture by art historian and curator Nicole R. Fleetwood, reading of June Jordan’s poetry by Asha Futterman, Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev, Evie Shockley, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, conversation with artists Scherezade Garcia and Nadir Souirgi, and a live music performance by Rhiannon Giddens Conference Description The […]
Read More“They lived right around the corner from me”
Feb 3, 2021
News from the Center Asha Futterman (BC ’21) reflects on her three-year journey with BCRW, including her work creating the Black Women of Harlem Walking Tour with Mariame Kaba. “It was powerful to understand that so many women who have done amazing things, that still impact my life years and years later, lived right around the […]
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