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Mariame Kaba, Stas Schmiedt, and Lea Roth
What do we mean when we talk about transformative justice and accountability? What does a survivor-centered response look like in practice?
Simon Balto and Emily Thuma, moderated by Mariame Kaba
Emily Thuma and Simon Balto, in conversation with Mariame Kaba, will discuss histories of resistance to prisons and policing, offering roadmaps and lessons for contemporary struggles.
La Vaughn Belle, Mariame Kaba, and CeCe McDonald
Join the BCRW Social Justice Institute residents La Vaughn Belle, Mariame Kaba, and CeCe McDonald for a discussion of their work as artists, organizers, scholars, and visionaries responding to histories and ongoing manifestations of state and interpersonal violence.
Marc Dones, Gregory Jost, Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, and Fitzroy Christian
In “Decade of Fire,” Bronx-born Vivian Vázquez Irizarry pursues the truth surrounding the fires that consumed the South Bronx in the 1970s, uncovering policies of racism and neglect that still shape our cities, and offering hope to communities on the brink today.
La Vaughn Belle, Helle Stenum, and Tiphanie Yanique, moderated by Tami Navarro
This conversation will highlight engagements with the archival record of the Danish West Indies, the islands now known as the United States Virgin Islands, featuring speakers who work on archival practice, and who are working to address structural inequalities in the ways these documents are situated.
Gina Rippon, Daphna Joel, and Giordana Grossi, moderated by Beck Jordan-Young
Neuroscientist Gina Rippon will discuss the historical and political conditions that produced ideas of binary gender differences in our brains, how and why these misperceptions have persisted into the 21st century, and how the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience dispel these fallacies.