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“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?
Read MoreTaking Children: A History of American Terror
A conversation with Laura Briggs, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Valeria Luiselli
Read MorePast as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to the Brutality of Incarceration
Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier. Moderated by Mariame Kaba.
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 provided. Contact bcrw@barnard.edu with any questions. For centuries incarcerated people and others have painted a grim and gruesome picture of conditions inside prisons and jails. There have been countless reports, testimonies, […]
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreGraveyards of Exclusion: Archives, Prisons, and the Bounds of Belonging
Jarret Drake delivers the 2019 Scholar and Feminist Conference keynote, "Graveyards of Exclusion: Archives, Prisons, and the Bounds of Belonging."
Read MoreMarissa Alexander: Survived and Punished
Marissa Alexander is a survivor of domestic violence who was sentenced to a 20 year mandatory minimum sentence for firing a single warning shot into the ceiling. Learn about her story and the creative organizing that successfully fought for her freedom.
Read MoreJoan Little: Survived and Punished
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 global organizing that successfully fought for her freedom.
Read MoreDon’t be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks
Bystander intervention that does not rely on the police.
Read MoreDean Spade: CLAGS 2016 Kessler Award Lecture
"When We Win We Lose: Mainstreaming and the Redistribution of Respectability"
Read MoreQueer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders
Video by Dean Spade + Hope Dector. Featuring Reina Gossett, Angélica Cházaro, CeCe McDonald, and Dean Spade.
Read MoreNavigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond
Soniya Munshi and Craig Willse
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 constituted and contested. Emerging out of a 2009 meeting at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting convened by Munshi and Willse and drawing on the theoretical and historical models articulated by INCITE! Women, Gender Non-conforming, and Trans People of Color Against Violence, the collection asks: What are the possibilities for transformative politics given the capacity of neoliberal capital to incorporate, absorb and/or neutralize demands for social justice?
Read MoreScholar & Feminist 41: Sustainabilities
Reina Gossett, Cara Page, Krystal Portalatin, Joo-Hyun Kang & more.
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 we can sustain the material, financial, creative, cultural, spiritual, and communal resources necessary to maintain the vitality of our communities, movements, and critical feminist inquiries. The conference brings together feminist scholars, […]
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