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

[Barath, Hannah]

Hi,

I’m one of the organizer from UBC. We haven’t talked to Leah about recording this event. My suggestion would be to contact Leah (her website is brownstargirl.org<http://www.brownstargirl.org/>) and let her know that you are interested in recording this talk, and that we suggested you’d contact her directly. If you have any questions about this event, please feel free to email me at hannah.barath at ubc.ca<mailto:hannah.barath at ubc.ca>.

Cheers,
Hannah

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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<mailto: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.

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.

Strong Communities Make Police Obsolete: Dreaming Magic Feminist of Color Roadmaps to A World of Survivor Safety and Justice Without The State

“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.”

Date: January 27, 2015
Time: 12.30 – 1.30 PM
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>)

If you require any accommodation for this event, please contact CJ Rowe at cj.rowe at ubc.ca<mailto:cj.rowe at ubc.ca> by Tuesday, January 13, 2015.

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<http://brownstargirl.org>.

You can check out the Facebook event<https://www.facebook.com/events/347528008782782/> for more information.

This event is presented in collaboration by UBC Access & Diversity, PrideUBC and the Jane Rule Endowment for the Study of Human Relationships.


Hannah Barath
Student Assistant | Access and Diversity
The University of British Columbia
1203 Brock Hall - 1874 East Mall | Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1
Phone 604 827 2716<tel:604%20827%202716>
hannah.barath at ubc.ca<mailto:dickson.ng at ubc.ca>
students.ubc.ca/access<http://students.ubc.ca/access>

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