[Wamvan] SAAM 2015 Keynote Speaker Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: Strong Communities Make Police Obsolete

[Frieda Werden]

Anyone on this list planning to record this talk?

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Barath, Hannah <hannah.barath at ubc.ca> wrote:

>  Join us for one of the events during Sexual Assault Awareness Month
> 2015. See the full list
> <http://students.ubc.ca/livewell/topics/sexual-assault/sexual-assault-awareness-month#event>
> of events and follow us on Twitter at #saamUBC.
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> Sexual assault affects people of all ages, genders, and sexual
> orientations. Learn more
> <http://students.ubc.ca/livewell/topics/sexual-assault/sexual-assault-awareness-month>
> about sexual assault, how to help prevent it, and the supports available
> for survivors. Help end the violence.
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> We are very excited to announce Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha as a
> keynote speaker for SAAM 2015! Information about the content of this talk
> as well as logistical details can be found below.
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> *Strong Communities Make Police Obsolete: Dreaming Magic Feminist of Color
> Roadmaps to A World of Survivor Safety and Justice Without The State*
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> “Fourteen years after INCITE: Women of Color Against Violence started
> their delicious adventures into what creating safety, healing and justice
> by survivors of violence without using the cops and courts that kill us,
> things are pretty exciting. The police in New York are on strike and
> violence is way down. Black Lives Matter, founded by Black Queer Feminists,
> insist that we have the power to create the Black feminist future we need.
> Yet what are we doing and how are we doing it and isn't it messy as we
> figure it all out? In this interactive, vibrant talk, transformative
> justice organizer and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha will share
> stories, spells and questions from her almost twenty years of thinking,
> organizing and dreaming new ways of creating safety outside the system.”
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> Date: *January 27, 2015*
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> Time: *12.30 – 1.30 PM*
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> Location: * Multipurpose Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476
> North West Marine Drive (**Map*
> <http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=496>*)*
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> If you require any accommodation for this event, please contact CJ Rowe at
> cj.rowe at ubc.ca by Tuesday, January 13, 2015.
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> Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled femme writer,
> performer, healer and teacher of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma
> ascent. The author of the Lambda Award-winning Love Cake and Consensual
> Genocide and co-editor with Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani of The Revolution
> Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities, her
> writing on femme of color and Sri Lankan identities, survivorhood, and
> healing, disability and transformative justice has been widely published
> and performed. She is the co-founder of Mangos With Chili, North America's
> touring queer and trans people of color cabaret, a lead artist with the
> disability justice incubator Sins Invalid and co-founder of Toronto's Asian
> Arts Freedom School. In 2010 she was named one of the Feminist Press' 40
> Feminists Under 40 Shaping the Future and she is a 2013 Autostraddle Hot
> 105 member. She organized the successful 2014 Healing Justice for Black
> Lives Matter action which raised $28,000 for Black Lives Matter through
> community based healing justice spaces. Her next book of poetry, Bodymap
> and first memoir, Dirty River, will be published in 2015. Find out more
> about her projects at brownstargirl.org.
>
>
>
> You can check out the Facebook event
> <https://www.facebook.com/events/347528008782782/> for more information.
>
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> This event is presented in collaboration by UBC Access & Diversity,
> PrideUBC and the Jane Rule Endowment for the Study of Human Relationships.
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> *Hannah Barath*
>
> Student Assistant | Access and Diversity
>
> The University of British Columbia
>
> 1203 Brock Hall - 1874 East Mall | Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1
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> Phone *604 827 2716 <604%20827%202716>*
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> hannah.barath at ubc.ca <dickson.ng at ubc.ca>
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