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Victoria Law and Andrea J. Ritchie
What dangerous myths are driving criminalization, policing, and incarceration? What steps can we take to abolish prisons?
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.
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?
Nicole Fleetwood
Nicole Fleetwood will join us to discuss art and visual advocacy by black women to abolish prisons and to end punitive governance.
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.