Abolitionist & Community Safety Reading Group
Start: 2023-02-21 19:00:00 UTC Pacific Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-08:00)
A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP
Sign up now to join Las Vegas DSA's Abolition & Community Safety priority as we begin this multi-week educational curriculum on abolition from our comrades at Study & Struggle (to look at full curriculum, go here)!
For our third session, we ask you to watch/read Critical Conversation 2: Abolition, Intersectionality, and Care (Video / Transcript) to accompany the readings.
The readings for Session #3 are as follows:
- Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete, “How Gender Structures the Prison System"
- Robin D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams, “This Battlefield Called Life: Black Feminist Dreams”
- “Combahee River Collective Statement”
- Article: Sarah Lamble, Captive Genders, “Transforming Carceral Logics: 10 Reasons to Dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex Through Queer/Trans Analysis and Action”
To see supplemental readings, key questions, discussion questions, and even optional activities, you can check out our facilitator's guide for Session #3 here.