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The Cunning of Gender Violence: Securitization and the Violence of Law

Lila Abu-Lughod, Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Karen Engle, Janet R. Jakobsen, Vasuki Nesiah, and Rafia Zakaria

September 7, 2023

Contributors to The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke 2023) discuss how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs.

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…

Invisible No More: Police Responses to Violence

November 4, 2017

Featuring Mariame Kaba (Co-Founder, Survived & Punished and Project NIA), Cara Page (Activist in Residence, Barnard Center for Research on Women), Jemisha Williams (Audre…

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…

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…

In the Wake: A Salon in Honor of Christina Sharpe

February 2, 2017

Christina Sharpe in conversation with Hazel Carby, Kaiama Glover, Saidiya Hartman, Arthur Jafa, and Alex Weheliye.

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

January 18, 2017

Bystander intervention that does not rely on the police.

Dean Spade: CLAGS 2016 Kessler Award Lecture

December 9, 2016

"When We Win We Lose: Mainstreaming and the Redistribution of Respectability"

Queer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders

June 23, 2016

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

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…

Policing the Crises: Thinking It Forward – Panel at Stuart Hall Conference

September 26, 2015

Panel featuring Ben Carrington, Karla FC Holloway, Barnor Hesse, and chair Tina Campt from the conference "Policing the Crises: Stuart Hall and the Practice…

Annette Gordon-Reed – Without Cover of the Law: Writing the History of Enslaved Women

March 24, 2015

Drawing on her work about slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, luminary legal historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses the way law influences the portrayal of enslaved…

Without Cover of the Law: Writing the History of Enslaved Women

Annette Gordon-Reed

January 9, 2015

Drawing on her work about slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, luminary legal historian Annette Gordon-Reed will discuss the way law influences the portrayal of…

Sakhi for South Asian Women

May 9, 2014

(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 11) In this episode of Dare to Use the F-Word, we interview Caritas Doha of Sakhi for South…

“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.

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…

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…

Fighting the Isolation and Dehumanization of Prisons and Policing

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…

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…

“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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

New Feminist Solutions: Social Justice Approaches to Ending Domestic Violence

Tiloma Jayasinghe, Sally MacNichol, Angela Moreno

December 19, 2013

Between 2011-2012, Sakhi for
 South Asian Women convened two meetings of grassroots organizers 
to address the challenges of 
building a broader anti-violence movement. These…

No One is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition

Tourmaline and Dean Spade '97

December 18, 2013

REGISTER EVENT INFORMATION VIDEOS QUESTIONS RESOURCES Event Informaton In a series of four short online videos produced by BCRW, activists Tourmaline and Dean Spade…

Maya Krishna Rao

October 24, 2013

Maya Krishna Rao performs Ravanama, an excerpt from her solo piece on an actor in search of a character, Ravana, and The Walk, an…

October 14, 2013

Like the symposium, this special issue foregrounds scholarship at the intersections of science and technology studies, feminist and queer studies, and race and postcolonial…
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