Part 3: The Future is Intersectional
This Thursday, November 19, 2020
6 — 7:30PM PT
Dear Friend,
This Thursday will be the third installment of our Evening Over Violence virtual series event, The Future is Intersectional.
Whether it be through developing new language to understanding our realities, like the terms intersectionality coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw and access intimacy by Mia Mingus, or creating the #SayHerName awareness and action campaign with the African American Policy Forum to address gaps in our struggles for transformation, these two brilliant writers and educators and this renowned think tank have made significant global impacts in the various struggles against oppression.
Join us Thursday, November 19th as we engage in conversation about the crossroads where we collectively find ourselves and ask the question, how does an intersectional future look?
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Honoring Brave Space Builders of the Anti-Violence Movement
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Kimberlé Crenshaw
African American Policy Forum
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The most influential Black feminist legal theorist in the United States, Kimberlé Crenshaw is a professor at Columbia and UCLA law schools as well as the co-founder of the African American Policy Forum.
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“Rosa Parks came into politics not when she sat down on a bus, but when she took up the case of Recy Taylor, a black woman who was gang-raped, and the white men who did it were not brought to justice. These are the stories that a male-centric view of anti-black racism does not consistently remember, rehearse and retell,” Crenshaw says. This results in a failure to challenge the myth that black women don’t face sexual and state violence, leaving women like Recy and Breonna Taylor vulnerable and isolated. For Crenshaw, this rewriting of history that centres the violence black women experience is crucial for taking the black freedom struggle forward.”
— Kimberlé Crenshaw: the woman who revolutionised feminism – and landed at the heart of the culture wars, The Guardian
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Mia Mingus
Transformative Justice and Disability Justice Educator
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A founding core member of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC), Mia Mingus has been involved in transformative justice work for more than 15 years and developed the disability justice framework.
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“What if we rushed towards our own accountability and understood it as a gift we can give to ourselves and those hurting from our harm? What if we understood our accountability, not as some small insignificant act, but as an intentional drop in an ever-growing river of healing, care, and repair that had the potential to nourish, comfort and build back trust on a large scale, carving new paths of hope and faith through mountains of fear and unacknowledged pain for generations?”
— Dreaming Accountability
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African American Policy Forum
National Think Tank
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Founded in 1996, The African American Policy Forum (AAPF) is an innovative think tank that connects academics, activists and policy-makers to promote efforts to dismantle structural inequality.
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#SAYHERNAME Campaign
FILL THE VOID. LIFT YOUR VOICE.
SAY HER NAME.
Launched in December 2014 by the AAPF and Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS), #SayHerName aims to advance a gender-inclusive narrative in the movement for Black lives.
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Featuring a Live Interactive Musical Performance by Tylana Renga Enomoto
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Tylana Renga Enomoto
Grammy-winning violinist, vocalist
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Etsegenet Tadese
Ethiopian musician, guitarist, bass player, singer/songwriter, arranger
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Alyra Lennox
Yoga practitioner, former dancer
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Alberto Lopez
Musical director, arranger, musician
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Tevin Douglas
Lyricist, poet, artist, explorer, visionary, philosopher
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Evening Hosted by
Martha Gonzalez
Chican@ artivista, feminist music theorist, associate professor at Scripps College
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This is a virtual event; tickets are required. Purchase yours today!
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Support healing services for survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
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CONTACT
Metro Headquarters
1015 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90017
213.955.9090 office
213.955.9093 fax
213.785.2684 video
213.785.2749 video
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West San Gabriel Valley Center
892 N Fair Oaks Ave, Suite D
Pasadena, CA 91103
626.584.6191 office
626.584.6193 fax
626.243.7972 video
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