Ana Sofia Harrison (BC '25)

Collective Reconnection: An Interview with Sophie Lewis

Jan 23, 2024

Sophie Lewis came to speak at the BCRW Feminist Freedom School in June. She brought an extraordinarily calm and humble demeanor as she entered the classroom. Her arrival was eagerly awaited by participants of the freedom school as many were familiar with her book, Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Verso Press, […]

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Abolition, family

Apr 25, 2023 / 7pm EDT / 4pm PDT / 6pm CDT

It’s All Policing, It’s All War: Chicago Organizers on Connecting Abolition and Demilitarization

Benji Hart, Asha Ransby-Sporn, Timmy Châu, and Dean Spade

ASL will be provided. Live transcription is available here. The prison and police abolition movement and the anti-war movement are often thought of as separate, siloed formations. However, in practice, organizers working to end racist, colonial, imperialist, patriarchial, ecocidal violence understand these to be the same fight. Join us for a conversation with Benji Hart, […]

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Abolition, antiwar

Feb 17, 2023 | 5:00PM

Abortion as Abolition

Rafa Kidvai (Repro Legal Defense Fund, founder)

The goal of this event is to bring light to activists and scholars dealing with the increased criminalization of abortion care and pregnancy outcomes, and how the police state and criminal legal system works in conflict with the principles of reproductive justice. Importantly, we want to frame self-managed abortion as an abolitionist praxis. We also […]

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Abolition, abortion

Online
Mar 1, 2022 | 7PM ET / 4PM PT

Abolition on the Ground: Reporting from the Movement to #DefundthePolice

Angélica Cházaro, Erica Perry, and Andrea Ritchie, moderated by Dean Spade

Join us for a conversation with abolitionist organizers and lawyers leading this work to talk about lessons learned in #defundthepolice mobilizations, how this work fits into the larger abolitionist vision for a world without cages or borders, and the key strategic questions facing the movement now. 

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Abolition, Defund police

Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 3): Skills for Abolitionist Practice

A workshop with Dean Spade on giving and receiving feedback in mutual aid groups.

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Abolition, Dean Spade, mutual aid

May 7, 2021 | 2:00PM

Survival and Resistance: Mutual Aid in Disastrous Times

Naomi Klein, Dean Spade, adrienne maree brown, Klee Benally, and Chandan Reddy (moderator)

As we face cascading crises caused by the extractive systems that still determine the material conditions of our lives, mutual aid is proliferating and drawing more people into resistance work.

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Abolition, climate crisis, climate justice, mutual aid

Tune in online
May 4, 2021 | 6:30PM

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

Victoria Law and Andrea J. Ritchie

What dangerous myths are driving criminalization, policing, and incarceration? What steps can we take to abolish prisons?

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Abolition, prisons

October 21, 2020, 4–6 p.m.

Transformative Justice in the Era of #DefundPolice: Lessons from the Past, Strategizing for the Future

Shira Hassan and Mimi Kim

Shira Hassan and Mimi Kim will join us for a conversation about the history and development of transformative justice, its importance in current movements towards liberation, and everyday practices.

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#defundpolice, Abolition, accountability, anti-violence, building accountable communities, transformative justice

Care Not Cops: Youth Safety Planning in a World Without Policing

Safety planning skill-share focusing on how to use the Bay Area Transformative Justice Pod-Mapping Tool

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Abolition, policing

Introduction to Mutual Aid

What is "mutual aid," and how is it different from charity, philanthropy, and state social services?

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Abolition, mutual aid

Past as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to Incarceration

Conversation featuring Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier, moderated by Mariame Kaba.

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Abolition, incarceration, prison, Survived and Punished

Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Oct 21, 2019 | 6:30PM

On the Road to Abolition: Archiving Resistance to the Carceral State

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.

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Abolition, anti-policing, anti-prison, anti-violence, Black Power, policing, prison newsletters, prison-psychiatric state, prisons, self-defense