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state violence
Taking Children: A History of American Terror
A conversation with Laura Briggs, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Valeria Luiselli
Read MoreFilm screening: Decade of Fire: Stay, Fight, Build
Marc Dones, Gregory Jost, Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, and Fitzroy Christian
In “Decade of Fire,” Bronx-born Vivian Vázquez Irizarry pursues the truth surrounding the fires that consumed the South Bronx in the 1970s, uncovering policies of racism and neglect that still shape our cities, and offering hope to communities on the brink today.
Read MoreResisting Gendered State Violence Across Turtle Island: Cross-Border Solidarity Against Anti-Blackness
Robyn Maynard, author of best-selling Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Robyn Maynard will discuss similarities and differences in histories, tactics, modes, and consequences of state violence targeting Black communities in the U.S., Canada and at the border, articulating critical questions and strategies for cross-border solidarity, organizing, and resistance in the current political moment.
Read More“The fake road, its cruel deception, is what we have to abandon”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons
Featuring Jordan Camp, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Christina Heatherton, and Mariame Kaba, moderated by Tina Campt at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."
Read More“in this time of siege for me and mine, mi raza”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons
Featuring Rachel Ida Buff, Inderpal Grewal, Arun Kundnani, and Marlene Nava Ramos, moderated by Manu Vimalassery at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."
Read MoreS&F Conference: Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence
Simone Browne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Inderpal Grewal, Mariame Kaba, Cara Page, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade
This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference will bring together a broad community of thinkers and organizers to grapple with the ever-deepening penetration of surveillance practices into everyday life, and ways to engage in self-defense against the militarized, racist police state’s demands for constant access in the name of “security” and public order.
Read MoreInvisible No More: Resisting Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color in Troubled Times
Barbara Smith, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Tourmaline, Mariame Kaba & others
This conference is the first in a series of events taking place in the midwest, south, and west coast to explore and support ongoing resistance to police violence against Black women and women of color.
Read MoreHomes for All, Cages for None: Housing Justice in an Age of Abolition
Christina Heatherton and Craig Willse
In 2016, the Barnard Center for Research on Women assembled a Poverty Working Group to examine the state’s neglect and abandonment of poor people, people of color, and people with disabilities. The group asks how can we deepen our understanding of and resistance to the ways that the neoliberal state and racialized, classed, gendered, and […]
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