Invisible No More: A Symposium On Resisting Police Violence Against Black Women & Women Of Color
03.21.2018 | 4:00 – 7:30 PM | Multicultural Community Center at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union
03.22.2018| 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM | Multicultural Community Center at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union
Experiences of women of color – often invisible in broader debates and movements around police violence, criminalization, and gender-based violence – must fuel our research & resistance.
FEATURING: Screening of the Academy Award-nominated Film, Traffic Stop (link is external)& the Berkeley premiere of the national art exhibit, No Selves to Defend(link is external)
PROGRAM
WED, MARCH 21: SHIFTING THE PARADIGM
A roundtable of organizers and scholars will discuss why gendered analyses have often been marginalized in activism, policy, and research addressing police violence and how to shift the paradigm for a more expansive and transformative politics.
4:00 pm : Welcome & Opening
4:45 pm: Screening of Academy Award Nominated film, Traffic Stop
5:20pm : Reception
5:50 pm : Honor Families
6:15 pm : Shifting the Paradigm Panel
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THUR, MARCH 22: RESEARCH, ORGANIZE, TRANSFORM
10:00 am: WELCOME
10:15 am: IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT & GENDER VIOLENCE
Moderated by Leti Volpp, UC Berkeley Center for Race & Gender
Martha D. Escobar, California State University, Northridge
Saira Hussain, Asian Law Caucus; Survived & Punished
Angie Junck, Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Lee Ann Wang, University of Washington
11:30 am: POLICING GENDER, REPRODUCTION, SEX, & SEXUALITY
Moderated by Xandra Ibarra
Jill Adams, UC Berkeley, Center on Reproductive Rights & Justice
Monica Jones, OUTLAW Project
Emi Koyama, Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade
12:45 pm: LUNCH (on your own) ~ Books on sale by Eastwind Books ~
1:30 pm: #SurvivedAndPunished - POLICING SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Moderated by Alisa Bierria, UC Berkeley; Survived & Punished
Nan-Hui Jo, Survived & Punished; Stand With Nan-Hui
Mimi Kim, California State University, Long Beach; Creative Interventions
Romarilyn Ralston, California Coalition for Women Prisoners; California State University, Fullerton
Lidia Salazar, Community United Against Violence
2:45 pm: BREAK, SNACKS
3:00 pm: RESISTANCE ROUNDTABLE
Melina Abdullah, California State University, Los Angeles; Black Lives Matter- Los Angeles
Cat Brooks, Anti-Police Terror Project
Aminah Colbert, California Coalition for Women Prisoners; Survived & Punished
Lisa Earl, Justice for Jackie; Rachel Herzing, Center for Political Education
Janetta Johnson, TGI Justice Project
Mia Mingus, Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective
Ola Osaze, Black LGBTQIA Migrant Project
Connie Wun, Transformative Research
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
In the midst of intensified immigration enforcement, doubling down on discredited drug war tactics, initiatives flooding communities of color with police, continuing disrespect for Indigenous sovereignty, rampant Islamophobia, increased attacks on gender, sexual, and reproductive liberation, and ongoing criminalization and violations of people with disabilities, police violence is poised to escalate on every front. Simultaneously, we are in the midst of a national conversation about sexual violence that offers tremendous opportunities to shine a light on sexual violence committed by police officers, as well as criminalizing responses to survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. In each of these contexts, the experiences of women of color — often invisible in broader debates and movements around police violence, criminalization, and gender-based violence — must fuel our resistance.
To advance these critical conversations, this event convenes scholars, artists, survivors, organizers, and advocates living and working at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and criminalization to join us for a two day symposium examining and building on the themes, trends, and strategies explored in Andrea Ritchie’s recent book, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Beacon Press, 2017). Placing stories of individual women—such as Sandra Bland, Kayla Moore, Charleena Lyles, Jessica Williams, Monica Jones, and Mya Hall—in the broader frame of the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, it documents the evolution of movements centering women’s experiences of policing and demands a radical rethinking of our visions of safety—and the means we devote to achieving it.
Exploring racial profiling, police violence, criminalization, mass incarceration and immigration enforcement through the lens of the experiences of Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color, symposium participants will engage the crossroads between organizing, research, art, and policy strategies to transform conditions of state violence in this historic political moment.
This event is made possible by the following generous co-sponsors: African American Studies; American Cultures; Barnard Center for Research on Women; Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice; Division of Equity and Inclusion; Ethnic Studies; Gender & Women’s Studies; Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society LGBTQ Cluster; Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society Diversity and Health Disparity Cluster; Institute of Governmental Studies; Institute for the Study of Societal Issues; Multicultural Community Center; Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice; Third Wave Fund; The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities.