Join us for a conversation with scholar-organizers on the multiple and compounded ways in which social difference has been foundational to the prison industrial complex and has manifested in the disproportionate criminalization of women of color.
“From sexual violence on the plantations to forced sterilization in state prisons and ICE centers, punishment in this country has always been gendered and racialized.”*
The conversation will bring together Dr. Sarah Haley (Department of History and ISSG, Columbia University), Rachel Herzing (Executive Director, Center for Political Education), and Romarilyn Ralston (Project Rebound). Guiding the discussion will be an abolitionist feminist framework, which emphasizes the heteronormative white supremacist order at the root of both gendered and state violence. Speakers will touch on abolition feminism as a theoretical framework in their research and as a method and a set of practices in their organizing against prisons and advocacy for anti-carceral alternatives. ]