[opirgyork] Have you registered yet? Prison Industrial Complex workshop (THIS WEDS)

[aruna at opirgyork.ca]

Taking down the Prison Industrial Complex: One Loving Relationship at a Time
Changing Our Systems, Changing Ourselves
A Workshop by kyisha williams

Wednesday February 8th 2012
5pm to 8pm
Student Centre - Rm. 315C

Description
This workshop is designed to explore and broaden understanding of the
complexities of the large scale prison industrial complex. While also
deepening our understanding of the ways these systems affect us all and
additionally how we perpetuate them. This is a participatory and intimate
workshop (meaning you will be challenged to share and participate in a
meaningful way). We will aim for the workshop space to take into account
the whole people that we are and to grow and learn from a place of love.

Facilitator’s BIO
kyisha is a radical, Black, Gold, queer, high femme, sex positive,
vibrant, survivor, fighter, writer and film/video maker. kyisha is a
community organizer and support worker who does work within
Black/queer/trans/racialized/criminalized/incarcerated/HIV+/HCV+
communities. kyisha has used art and community organizing as a means of
survival and celebration since she was sixteen. She is excited to flip and
personalize the way you understand prison abolition and solidarity work!

Registration
Pre-registration is required. Please note number of participants is
extremely limited, so act fast! Please send registration information to
aruna at opirgyork.ca In your email please provide the following information:
*Name
*Contact information
*Access needs
*Short description of how you identify
*Short description of why you want to be at the workshop

Please note: Priority will be given to those who are/have been
criminalized (and/or involved with the criminal justice system)* and/or
Black, Indigenous, and Racialized peoples and/or those with invisible and
invisible disAbilities.

*Due to class background, line of work, status, etc.

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Also check out the other two upcoming workshops that we are having that
interest you:

*Not just a workshop: anti-oppression in practice*
Wednesday February 15th 2012
5pm to 8pm
Location TBA

Building on questions, conflicts and discussions that happen in the
workshop on Thursday January 26th, as well as experiences that participants
bring from their own lives, this workshop will create space for
participants and facilitators to share useful tools to dismantle and
transform oppressive relationship structures.

*Movement Caretaking: Mapping and Transforming Community Dynamics*
Wednesday March 14th 2012
5pm to 8pm
Location TBA

Influenced by the experience of the February 15th workshop, as well as
experiences that participants bring from their own lives, participants will
be guided through a community weathermapping exercise where they map out
the positive, hopeful, difficult, ugly dynamics going on in their intimate
communities, and the broader worlds they connect to. Having mapped the
micro and macro climates shaping our struggles, we will ask ourselves how
we want to prepare for the weather ahead.

Facilitator Bio:
mo dreams and works towards decolonization and body sovereignty. she
fantasizes about movements collaborating to grow the strength to heal
from the traumas of institutional and personal violences of
colonialism, capitalism, ableism, mysogny, racism, and queer and
transphobias.