May 2022: Abolish Everything - Queer and Trans Abolition

Start: 2022-05-04 19:00:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)

End: 2022-05-04 20:30:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)

This is a virtual event

Baltimore SURJ Political Education Graphic. Reads: Virtual Meetings First Wednesday of Each Month 7 - 8:30 PM
Graphic illustrated by Maya C Johnston

The May 2022 meeting of the Abolish Everything Series will focus on "Queer and Trans Abolition".

We will focus on two main sources:

  1. Joey Mogul and Andrea Ritchie and Kay Whitlock, Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, “The Ghosts of Stonewall: Policing Gender, Policing Sex”
  2. Sarah Lamble, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, “Transforming Carceral Logics: 10 Reasons to Dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex Through Queer/Trans Analysis and Action”

Supplemental Reading:

Morgan Bassichis, Alexander Lee, and Dean Spade, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, “Building An Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement With All We’ve Got”

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