Abolitionist Organizing
The Abolitionist Organizing Panel will bring together local organizers and legal practitioners working at the intersection of queer liberation and prison abolition to discuss how we can resist the carceral state and its continued displacement of millions from their homes, loved ones, and communities. We will ask how we can balance immediate harm reduction with building a radical, long-lasting alternative to the carceral state, and what actions we can take to strengthen the movement for abolition.
Speakers:
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D Dangaran (they/them), Director of Gender Justice at Rights Behind Bars and co-chair of the National Trans Bar Association.
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Dee Farmer (she/her), Executive Director of the Fight4Justice Project and the first transgender petitioner to have a case accepted by the United States Supreme Court in Farmer v. Brennan, which established that prisoners have a right to be protected from harm and that prisons are responsible for their safety.
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Ashley Blount (she/her), Executive Director of the Black Infinity Collective.
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Moderator: Greta LaFleur (they/them), Associate Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.