Following the conversation, Janet Jakobsen will moderate a Q&A with the audience, including\u00a0questions from our community submitted prior to the event. Please share your questions below.<\/p>\n
How can the left develop more robust strategies to undermine and disrupt the powerful ascendance of the U.S. Right? How can the left learn from its history and the present moment to build a transformative intersectional social justice agenda that encompasses reproductive justice, LGBTQ liberation, racial and immigrant justice, civil liberties, and economic justice?<\/p>\n
In the aftermath of the midterm elections, Cara Page (Activist-in-Residence 2016-2018), Tarso Lu\u00eds Ramos (Executive Director of Political Research Associates and Activist-in-Residence 2016-2018), and Pooja Gehi (Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild) will discuss intersectional strategies to build long-term resistance. Speakers will present research and tactics, and pose\u00a0critical questions on how to strategically engage in electoral politics while holding down and moving forward a radical, long-term\u00a0social justice agenda.<\/p>\n
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Cara Page\u00a0<\/strong>is a Black Feminist Queer cultural\/memory worker, curator, and organizer. Over the last twenty-plus\u00a0years, she has fought for LGBTQGNC and People of Color liberation, and organized in the Southeast with movement builders such as SONG, Project South, and the Atlanta Transformative Justice Collaborative and has built with many organizers, healers and cultural workers across the country.\u00a0As an Activist-in-Residence, Page continued\u00a0her decades-long study on historical and contemporary eugenic practices and medical experimentation to shape a public discourse on the historical and contemporary role of eugenic violence as an extension of state control and surveillance on Black and Immigrant communities; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Transgender, Queer, and Gender Nonconforming people; people with disabilities; and Women of Color. Using transformative justice strategies\u00a0to confront and shift the practices of the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC), Page’s work reveals the centrality of traditions of collective safety and wellness to\u00a0political liberation.<\/p>\n![\"pooja](\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/pooja-150x100.jpg\")
Pooja Gehi<\/strong>\u00a0has worked for immigrant and racial justice, trans and queer liberation, transformative justice, youth leadership, and cross-movement coalition building throughout her life. Currently, she serves as the Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild. For over eight years, she worked as a Staff Attorney and Director of Immigrant Justice at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP). There she provided direct legal services to hundreds of low-income transgender and gender nonconforming clients, and achieved major victories like access to transition-related healthcare for New York State Medicaid recipients through litigation and coalition work. Pooja\u2019s scholarly work focuses on social movements, the devolution of criminal and immigration systems, and the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationality. Her recent work has appeared in the Berkeley\u00a0Asian American Law Journal<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Harvard Journal of Law and Gender<\/em>.<\/p>\n![\"Tarso](\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Tarso-Lui\u0301s-Ramos-photo-9.28.17-150x100.jpg\")
Tarso Lu\u00eds Ramos<\/strong>\u00a0is Executive Director of Political Research Associates. Under his leadership, PRA has expanded existing lines of research documenting right wing attacks on reproductive, gender and racial justice by launching several new initiatives on subjects that include the export of U.S.-style homophobic campaigns abroad, the spread of Islamophobia, and the Right\u2019s investment in redefining religious liberty toward discriminatory ends. Before joining PRA, Ramos served as founding director of Western States Center\u2019s Racial Justice Program, which works to oppose racist public policy initiatives and support progressive people of color-led organizations. As director of the Wise Use Public Exposure Project in the mid-\u201990s, he tracked the Right\u2019s anti-union and anti-environmental campaigns.<\/p>\n