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All Our Trials: A book talk with Emily Thuma

Dismantle, Change, Build Center 14 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

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…

Free