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

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I've cc'd our women's collective leader, and she and I will see who can
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as Frieda :)

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Frieda Werden <frieda.werden at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you for your reply, Hannah.  I am not in the Vancouver area these
> days, but am hoping someone will take this on.  I can make the inquiry if
> anyone who wants to record would like me to.
>
> In sisterhood,
> Frieda
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Barath, Hannah <hannah.barath at ubc.ca>
> wrote:
>
>>  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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Hannah
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Wamvan [mailto:wamvan-bounces at lists.resist.ca] *On Behalf Of *Frieda
>> Werden
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 14, 2015 9:53 PM
>> *To:* wamvan at lists.resist.ca
>> *Subject:* Re: [Wamvan] SAAM 2015 Keynote Speaker Leah Lakshmi
>> Piepzna-Samarasinha: Strong Communities Make Police Obsolete
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Please feel free to forward this on to your networks.*
>>
>> [image: SAAM-fb-cover-photo-to-share]
>>
>> 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 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 <604%20827%202716>*
>>
>> hannah.barath at ubc.ca <dickson.ng at ubc.ca>
>>
>> *students.ubc.ca/access <http://students.ubc.ca/access>*
>>
>>
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>>
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