[Wamvan] SAAM Keynote: Strong Communities Make Police Obsolete

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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
A talk with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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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.

Date: January 27, 2015
Time: 12.30 – 1.30 PM
Location: Multipurpose Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476 North West Marine Drive

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. brownstargirl.org<http://brownstargirl.org>.

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

The event is free of charge. You may RSVP on our Facebook page<https://www.facebook.com/events/347528008782782/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming>. Should you have any questions, please contact cj.rowe at ubc.ca<mailto:cj.rowe at ubc.ca>. For more information about this year’s SAAM events, please visit http://students.ubc.ca/saam.

Helena Zhu
Women Students Program Assistant | Access & Diversity
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
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