Join Survived & Punished for our 2nd National Convening Join Survived and Punished for a day of panels, strategy sessions, and community building — all with a focus on launching defense campaigns and organizing to free criminalized survivors of racialized gender-based violence. The goals of the national convening are for participants from across the country […]
EVENT PAGE Join the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Program and the Center for Criminal Justice for “Free Them All: Defending the Lives of Criminalized Survivors of Violence.” This forum will explore the ways in which the criminal legal system impacts women who have experienced violence and will feature a keynote speech by Mariame […]
NYC, come hear Emily Thuma discuss her new book "All Our Trials" on March 26th at 7 pm! "All Our Trials explores the organizing, ideas, and influence of those who placed criminalized and marginalized women at the heart of their antiviolence mobilizations. This activism confronted a "tough on crime" political agenda and clashed with the […]
ALL OUR TRIALS: A Book Talk + Discussion with author Emily Thuma and members of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners & Survived and Punished Friday, March 29, 7:30pm Skylight Books 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, 90027 Accessibility information: The venue is accessible to people with mobility disabilities. Emily Thuma, Assistant Professor of Gender and […]
EVENT PAGE What separates the possible from the impossible? The line is not as settled as we imagine. That project you’ve always dreamed of completing—possible . . . or impossible? That change you would see in your neighborhood, your city, your country, or that idea few people know about or even dare to look for—all […]
Super Moms Myths & the Criminalization of Mothers Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 5:30 PM – 8 PM CDT Westside Justice Center 601 S. California Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60612 Join Moms United and Northside Transformative Law Center for a panel and post-panel discussion, in a fully accessible location, about the ways in which moms, overwhelmingly […]
Join S&P NY and No New Jails for a letter writing event on Aug 1st from 6 to 8 pm at the People's Forum. Please RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/no-new-jails-nyc-and-survived-and-punished-ny-letter-writing-event-tickets-65878509395 Can't attend in person? You can still support the event by purchasing items off the wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3WBHNB2T1BYM or donating funds for postage: http://freethemny.com/donate.html
La Vaughn Belle, Mariame Kaba, and CeCe McDonald Oct 2, 2019 | 6:30pm Conversation Event Oval, Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 Join the BCRW Social Justice Initiative Residents La Vaughn Belle, Mariame Kaba, and CeCe McDonald, with Senior Activist Fellow Emerita Katherine Acey, for a discussion of their work as artists, organizers, scholars, and visionaries responding to […]
ALERT from Candace Liger of Project Blackbird and the Free Tondalao Hall Campaign: October is domestic violence awareness month. It’s not that we do not know that domestic violence exists, but rather we are reminded of the impact it has on survivors, children, and the breadth of trauma that exists with those that cause harm. […]
Join Alisa Bierria, Taylor Lytle, Michae Pulido, and Stacy Rojas as they speak about their experiences surviving and organizing against gendered state violence, followed by a discussion with organizers from California Coalition of Women Prisoners and audience members on how to fight for women and gender-nonconforming individuals behind bars.