Abolitionist Feminism: From Trans Justice to Radical Mothering

 Dear all,

Please join us on Tuesday, October 20th at noon for a conversation between Professor Nadine Naber and Ash Stevens. This talk was originally scheduled for April 2020, as a part of the GWSS 2019-2020 colloquium series. We are very lucky that Professor Nadine Naber and Ash Stephens have accepted to reschedule this timely event for this fall semester. Please distribute widely. For your convenience a flier is attached.  Thank you,

Sima Shakhsari

Webinar: Abolitionist Feminism: From Trans Justice to Radical Mothering

Speakers: Dr. Nadine Naber and Ash Stephens

Moderated by Sima Shakhsari and Naimah Petingy

October 20th, 2020

12:00-1:30 PM CST

Co-hosted by Imagining Transnational Solidarities Research Circle, AGITATE!, and Mizna.

This event is live-captioned for accessibility.

Facebook event Page: https://fb.me/e/1s9rp54B1

Facebook Live Stream: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=158031352643139&id=102157474897194

Zoom link: https://umn.zoom.us/j/95866573747

Questions? sshakhsa@umn.edu

Speaker Bios:

Dr. Nadine Naber is an award winning author, public speaker, and activist on the topics of racial and gender justice, women of color, Arab and Muslim feminisms, and Arab and Muslim Americans. She has authored/co-edited five books: Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism; Race and Arab Americans; Arab and Arab American Feminisms (winner of the Arab American Book Award 2012); The Color of Violence; and Towards the Sun. She has worked with many social movements and organizations, such as the Women of Color Resource Center, INCITE!, and the Arab American Action Network. She is currently director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy and a professor Gender and Women's Studies and Global Asian Studies at UIC. She is currently conducting an activist research project on radical mothering in response to war, attacks against immigrants, and the violence of prisons and police in Chicago.

Ash Stephens (he/him & they/them) is from Georgia and lives on the south side of Chicago. He’s a Criminology, Law and Justice PhD candidate, and Black Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies concentrator at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The working title of his forthcoming dissertation project is "Concealed Threats: Gender-Policing and Surveillance of Trans, Gender Nonconforming, and Nonbinary People." The project explores surveillance and policing of transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary people by various state actors. He’s also a co-founding member of the student led abolitionist collective Abolition at UIC, a board member of the Transformative Justice Law Project, Manager of Policy & Strategy at the Transgender Law Center, and a 2020-2021 Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund grantee. He’s organized with abolitionist collectives focused on racial, gender, and economic justice; including Survived & Punished – NYC Chapter, Love & Protect, and community bail/bond projects in both New York City and Chicago.