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“Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration

Victoria Law and Andrea J. Ritchie

March 1, 2021

What dangerous myths are driving criminalization, policing, and incarceration? What steps can we take to abolish prisons?
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Taking Children: A History of American Terror

December 1, 2020

A conversation with Laura Briggs, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Valeria Luiselli
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Past as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to the Brutality of Incarceration

Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier. Moderated by Mariame Kaba.

May 5, 2020

Live transcription available at http://bit.ly/pastasprologue2020 Register here. This event will take place online from 4pm - 6pm ET on 5/8/20. Live captions will be…
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On the Road to Abolition: Archiving Resistance to the Carceral State

Simon Balto and Emily Thuma, moderated by Mariame Kaba

June 5, 2019

Emily Thuma and Simon Balto, in conversation with Mariame Kaba, will discuss histories of resistance to prisons and policing, offering roadmaps and lessons for…
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Graveyards of Exclusion: Archives, Prisons, and the Bounds of Belonging

February 9, 2019

Jarret Drake delivers the 2019 Scholar and Feminist Conference keynote, "Graveyards of Exclusion: Archives, Prisons, and the Bounds of Belonging."
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Marissa Alexander: Survived and Punished

June 20, 2017

Marissa Alexander is a survivor of domestic violence who was sentenced to a 20 year mandatory minimum sentence for firing a single warning shot…
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Joan Little: Survived and Punished

June 20, 2017

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…
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Don’t be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks

January 18, 2017

Bystander intervention that does not rely on the police.
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Dean Spade: CLAGS 2016 Kessler Award Lecture

December 9, 2016

"When We Win We Lose: Mainstreaming and the Redistribution of Respectability"
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Queer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders

June 23, 2016

Video by Dean Spade + Hope Dector. Featuring Tourmaline, Angélica Cházaro, CeCe McDonald, and Dean Spade.
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January 31, 2016

This issue of S&F Online looks at the nonprofit and the university as two key sites in which neoliberal social and economic formations are…
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Scholar & Feminist 41: Sustainabilities

Tourmaline, Cara Page, Krystal Portalatin, Joo-Hyun Kang & more.

December 7, 2015

REGISTER DESCRIPTION PROGRAM SPEAKERS Description—#sf41 In the forty-first year of BCRW’s cornerstone conference, we are taking seriously the framework of sustainability to ask how…
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Dean Spade: History of Queers Against Police

October 30, 2015

Dean Spade talks about the dramatic shifts in queer and trans movements over the last 50 years with the emergence in the 1990s of…
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Policing the Crises: Stuart Hall and the Practice of Critique

Gina Dent, Karla Holloway, David Scott, and more

July 9, 2015

[su_button url="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/policing-the-crises-stuart-hall-and-the-practice-of-critique-tickets-17766136994" background="#ef8e2d" center="yes"]Register Now[/su_button] ABOUT THE EVENT Described by Henry Louis Gates as ‘Black Britain’s leading theorist of Black Britain,’ Stuart Hall was…
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Love and Flames: Legacies of Black Queer and Prison Abolitionist Solidarity with Palestinian Struggle

Che Gossett

January 9, 2015

In this paper, Community Activist and Student Coordinator Che Gossett examines the legacies of Black queer solidarity with Palestinian struggle by excavating June Jordan…
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October 7, 2014

This issue is organized around continuing the conversations that took place between scholars, activists, and scholar/activists at these conferences. In their writing, the contributors…
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“I Use My Love to Guide Me”: Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Impossible Situations

April 21, 2014

A conversation with CeCe McDonald, Tourmaline, and Dean Spade.
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Prisons Aren’t Safe for Anybody

April 21, 2014

CeCe McDonald joins prison abolition activists Tourmaline and Dean Spade in a conversation about her own experiences surviving trauma and impossible situations, and the…
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Police + Prisons Don’t Keep Us Safe–We Keep Each Other Safe

April 7, 2014

CeCe McDonald joins prison abolition activists Tourmaline and Dean Spade in a conversation about her own experiences surviving trauma and impossible situations, and the…
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I Use My Love to Guide Me–Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Impossible Situations

March 31, 2014

CeCe McDonald joins prison abolition activists Tourmaline and Dean Spade in a conversation about her own experiences surviving trauma and impossible situations, and the…
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New York City in the World

March 28, 2014

Panel at the For the Public Good Conference. Panelists include Ana Amuchástegui, Sealing Cheng, Louis Graham, Kerwin Kaye, Mark Padilla, and Mario Pecheny. Moderated…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates – Black Boy Interrupted: American Plunder and the Incomplete Life of Jordan Davis

March 28, 2014

Keynote address at the For the Public Good Conference.
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Exploring the Public Good in NYC

March 28, 2014

Panel at the For the Public Good Conference. Panelists include John Blasco, Nico Fonseca, Ede Fox, and Robert Hawkins. Moderated by Gail Cooper. Introduced…
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“I Use My Love to Guide Me”: Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Impossible Situations

CeCe McDonald, Tourmaline, and Dean Spade

March 27, 2014

EVENT INFORMATION VIDEOS ASK A QUESTION RESOURCES Event Informaton In 2011, CeCe McDonald was a fashion design student at Minneapolis Community and Technical College…
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Tourmaline + Dean Spade: “No One is Disposable” Online Discussion

February 7, 2014

Online discussion exploring prison abolition as a political framework and a key issue for those committed to supporting trans and gender-nonconforming people.
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Tourmaline + Dean Spade (Part 4): Gun Control + Producing Dangerousness

January 7, 2014

Part of the series "No One is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition," exploring prison abolition as a political framework and a key issue…
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Tourmaline + Dean Spade (Part 3): What About the Dangerous People?

January 7, 2014

Part of the series "No One is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition," exploring prison abolition as a political framework and a key issue…
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Tourmaline + Dean Spade (Part 2): Practicing Prison Abolition Everyday

January 7, 2014

Part of the series "No One is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition," exploring prison abolition as a political framework and a key issue…
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Tourmaline + Dean Spade (Part 1): Prison Abolition + Prefiguring the World You Want to Live In

January 7, 2014

Part of the series "No One is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition," exploring prison abolition as a political framework and a key issue…
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For the Public Good Conference

Ana Amuchástegui, Lee Anne Bell, Elizabeth Bernstein, Sealing Cheng, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Gail Cooper, Nico Fonseca, Kerwin Kaye, Mark Padilla, Mario Pecheny, and more

December 19, 2013

DESCRIPTION PROGRAM VIDEOS Description Register online. Special pre-conference panel on Thursday, March 27: Gender, Justice, and Activisms in New York City. Education. Healthcare. Policing.…
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