Honored to be participating in this discussion organized by Robyn Maynard and Andrea J. Ritchie to be part of Scholar Strike Canada Teach-Ins and Day of Action. Scholars Strike Canada (SSC) is hosting its second major labour action on March 21st – 23rd 2022 to Defund, Demilitarize, and Abolish Police, Prisons, and all forms of Carcerality. This will be a three-day labour action that includes two days of virtual teach-ins by scholars, activists, artists, and students and a Day of Action and gathering in Toronto: RECLAIM! ABOLITION TOUR 2022.

Our panel

“Black Feminist Struggle and the Transnational Politics of Abolition”

will be by Black feminist scholars and organizers from Brazil, the UK, Canada, and the U.S. The conversation will focus on racialized gender policing and state violence, local and global movements to defund and abolish policing, and the roots of abolition in Black feminist praxis.

Speakers:

Aviah Day and Shanice McBean, Sisters Uncut (UK) & co-authors of Abolition Revolution (Pluto Press 2022)

Imani Mason Jordan, Release and Talking Drugs (UK)

Fania Noël, Afrofeminist writer, author of Afro-Communautaire. Appartenir à nous-mêmes [ Afro-Community: Belonging to Ourselves] (Edition Syllepse) , Et Maintenant le Pouvoir. Un Horizon Politique Afroféministe [ Power now. An Afrofeminist political horizon] (Editions Cambourakis) / The New School (France/US )

Andreia Beatriz Silvia dos Santos, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (Brazil)

Moderated by Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (Fernwood Publishing) and co-author of Rehearsals for Living (Haymarket Books) and Andrea J. Ritchie, author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Beacon Press) and co-author of No More Police: A Case for Abolition (The New Press)

Full program : https://www.scholarstrikecanada.ca/scholarstrike-2022…

join here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCyAJID17qE…

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ASL will be provided for this teach-in.