Join SURJ NYC's Anti-Mass Incarceration Campaign for our third Feminist Study-into-Action on Monday, 2/26. We'll meet from 6:30-8:30pm.

The study-into-action is a monthly conversation exploring the intersections of prison abolition and gender justice and the ways we can show up to these intersections in our anti-mass incarceration work.

We'll pick up where we left off last month, digging into questions about how we engage the #metoo movement as feminists who oppose prisons. We're seeing powerful men face consequences for sexual violence in unprecedented ways. These consequences mark a shifting terrain and renewed feminist momentum that is interrupting patriarchy's business as usual. But we recognize that approaches to harm that exclude restoration and focus on punishment, disposability, and shame will never amount to a systemic solution to sexual violence.

This month, we'll be reading "The Sentencing of Larry Nassar Was Not 'Transformative Justice.' Here's Why." by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes and "#MeToo must avoid 'carceral feminism'" by Alex Press. We'll continue to build our understanding of what transformative justice strategies look like and what it means to oppose carceral feminism.

The Sentencing of Larry Nassar Was Not 'Transformative Justice.' Here's Why.
https://injusticetoday.com/the-sentencing-of-larry-nassar-was-not-transformative-justice-here-s-why-a2ea323a6645

#MeToo must avoid "carceral feminism"
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/2/1/16952744/me-too-larry-nassar-judge-aquilina-feminism


Past readings:

"From 'Me Too' to 'All of Us': Organizing to End Sexual Violence, Without Prisons," an interview with Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan
http://inthesetimes.com/article/20613/incarceration-sexual-assualt-me-too-rape-culture-organizing-resistance

“Think. Re-think. Accountable Communities," by Connie Burk (from the anthology The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities)

“Should We Forgive the Men Who Assaulted Us?" by Danielle Berrin
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/opinion/metoo-sexual-assault-forgiveness.html