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
Introduction to Mutual Aid
What is “mutual aid,” and how is it different from charity, philanthropy, and state social services?
Past as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to Incarceration
Conversation featuring Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier, moderated by Mariame Kaba.
Trans*Revolutions Virtual Symposium
Featuring Elliot Montague, Emma Frankland, Texas Isaiah, Tourmaline, and Vick Quezada. Moderated by Heather Vermeulen.
Centering the Needs of Survivors (Part 2)
Featuring RJ Maccani, Priya Rai, Rachel Herzing, and Esteban Kelly
Centering the Needs of Survivors (Part 1)
Featuring Sonya Shah, Elliott Fukui, adrienne maree brown, Stas Schmiedt, Lea Roth, nuri nusrat, and RJ Maccani
What Does Justice Look Like for Survivors?
Featuring Mimi Kim, Ann Russo, RJ Maccani, and Rachel Herzing
Intersections of Disability Justice and Transformative Justice
Featuring Elliott Fukui and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
The Haunted House of Classics
In the 2020 Natalie Boymel Kampen Memorial Lecture, Dan-el Padilla Peralta explores the historical and contemporary implications of the discipline of Classics in epistemicide, a concept popularized by the postcolonial theorist Boaventura de Sousa Santos to designate the extirpation of locally rooted ways of knowing as a direct result of imperial violence.
What is Transformative Justice?
Featuring adrienne maree brown, Mia Mingus, Stas Schmiedt, Ann Russo, Esteban Kelly, Martina Kartman, Priya Rai, and Shira Hassan
Dan-el Padilla Peralta: The Haunted House of Classics
In the 2020 Natalie Boymel Kampen Memorial Lecture, Dan-el Padilla Peralta explores the historical and contemporary implications of the discipline of Classics in epistemicide, a concept popularized by the postcolonial theorist Boaventura de Sousa Santos to designate the extirpation of locally rooted ways of knowing as a direct result of imperial violence.
Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Poetry reading by Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, followed by a conversation with Kaiama L. Glover.
The Rest I Make Up: A conversation with Michelle Memran and Gabri Christa, moderated by Alice Reagan
A conversation with Michelle Memran and Gabri Christa on the film “The Rest I Make Up,” a documentary on the life of Cuban American playwright, Maria Irene Fornés.
The View from Somewhere: Transgender Journalists Resisting Objectivity
Conversation featuring Meredith Talusan and Lewis Wallace
Decade of Fire: Stay, Fight, Build
A film screening and conversation with Marc Dones, Gregory Jost, Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, and Fitzroy Christian.
Transforming Harm: Experiments in Accountability
Online event featuring Mariame Kaba, Stas Schmiedt, and Lea Roth
How Shame Can Block Accountability
Stas Schmiedt and Lea Roth talk about how coming from a framework of shame can shut us down and get in the way of authentic accountability.
Consent is Accountability
Stas Schmiedt and Lea Roth discuss why they see consent as transformative justice and how we can use consent to learn concrete tools to negotiate power dynamics.
How to Support Harm Doers in Being Accountable
Featuring adrienne marie brown, Stas Schmiedt, Lea Roth, Mimi Kim, RJ Maccani, Priya Rai, Mia Mingus, Martina Kartman, Elliott Fukui, Sonya Shah, Rachel Herzing, Shira Hassan, and Ann Russo.
What are Obstacles to Accountability?
Featuring Sonya Shah, nuri nusrat, Mimi Kim, Ann Russo, Esteban Kelly, adrienne marie brown, Rachel Herzing, Stas Schmiedt, Lea Roth, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Mia Mingus.
Engaging the Archival Record of Danish Colonial Rule
A conversation featuring La Vaughn Belle, Helle Stenum, and Tiphanie Yanique, moderated by Tami Navarro.
Building Accountable Communities: Addressing Harm
Panel featuring adrienne maree brown, Shira Hassan, Mimi Kim, Priya Rai, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha, and Amita Swadhin, and moderated by Ejeris Dixon.
Building Accountable Communities: What is Accountability?
Panel discussion featuring Shannon Perez-Darby, Esteban Kelly, RJ Maccani, Mia Mingus, Sonya Shah, and Leah Todd, and moderated by Piper Anderson.
Building a Powerful Grassroots HIV/AIDS Movement
JD Davids, Che Gossett, Imani Henry, and Jason Walker discuss what it looks like to build a truly grassroots movement around HIV/AIDS that centers the people most impacted.
Who Leads the Fight Against HIV/AIDS?
Che Gossett, Jason Walker, and Imani Henry discuss how professionalization of the fight against HIV/AIDS leaves out the people most impacted.
Social Service Or Social Change: Building Political Power for People with HIV/AIDS
Che Gossett, Jason Walker, and Imani Henry offer a view of how nonprofitization of the fight against HIV/AIDS created a divide between service provision and movements for social change.
N’Tanya Lee: Grassroots Organizing Builds Power
N’Tanya Lee discusses why base-building is fundamental to all social justice work and the need for a new left with a vision for longterm social change.
N’Tanya Lee: Building Real Coalitional Queer Struggle
N’Tanya Lee discusses the shortfalls of single-issue queer organizing, reflecting on her work in the 90s, and how she carries those lessons into her current work through base-building and grassroots organizing within working-class communities of color.
Black Imaginaries, Scandinavian Diasporas: Imagining Race in Scandinavia
Artists discuss how their practices across different media are designed to provoke conversation about colonial legacies and contemporary racial politics on the ground in Sweden, Denmark, and St. Croix.
Robyn Maynard: Resisting Gendered State Violence Across Turtle Island
Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (Fernwood 2017), in conversation with Andrea Ritchie.