We are excited to have Emily Thuma, author of All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence to join us for a book talk in conversation with local community anti-violence activists.
Please join us from 6-8pm at the Dismantle, Change, Build, Center for an engaging conversation, light refreshments, and an opportunity to meet and build with Portland community invested in anti-violence work and transformative justice.
Books will be available for purchase.
More about the book and author:
During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anti-carceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners, and psychiatric patients rights, and gender and sexual liberation.
All Our Trials explores the organizing, ideas, and influence of those who placed criminalized and marginalized women at the heart of their anti-violence mobilizations. This activism confronted a “tough on crime” political agenda and clashed with the mainstream women’s movement’s strategy of resorting to the criminal legal system as a solution to sexual and domestic violence. Drawing on extensive archival research and first-person narratives, Thuma weaves together the stories of mass defense campaigns, prisoner uprisings, broad-based local coalitions, national gatherings, and radical print cultures that cut through prison walls. In the process, she illuminates a crucial chapter in an unfinished struggle-one that continues in today’s movements against mass incarceration and in support of transformative justice.
Emily L. Thuma is an assistant professor in the Division of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at the University of Washington, Tacoma.
Our community conversation members (more soon):
claire barrera is an artist, organizer and educator based in Portland, Oregon. They have participated in the anti-violence movement for over 17 years. Currently she does sexual violence prevention and intervention work with El Programa Hispano, organizes with Brown Girl Rise, and is working on a new performance project for 2020.
Accessibility info:
Location is wheelchair accessible. There is one gender-neutral ADA bathroom. Location uses mildly essential oil based scented cleaning products. We’ll provide unscented hand soap during event. Florescent lighting and forced air heating. Folding padded metal chairs along with two couches.
Childcare and ASL & Spanish translation available by request: please email us at crpdx@criticalresistance.org
Wifi available
Bus lines: #72,#6, #4, and #44 run nearby
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