About this Event
WHO + WHAT: Join us for an IRL EVENT with artist, educator, writer, and organizer, Dr. Kim Wilson, as we discuss a vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition, We Grow Together: Parenting Toward Abolition. Dr. Wilson will be joined in conversation with contributing authors and collaborators, Dylan Rodríguez, Susana Victoria Parras, and Alejandro Villalpando.
WHEN: Saturday, November 23, 2024 @ 7pm PST (Doors at 6:30pm, event starts at 7pm)
WHERE: In-Person at Rep Club in Los Angeles (3054 S. Victoria Ave LA, CA 90016)
HEALTH + SAFETY: For your safety, we ask that you please wear a face covering while indoors for our events.
HOW: Reserve an IRL ticket from the drop down below:
- IRL TICKET W/ SIGNED BOOK: This ticket guarantees a seat including a SIGNED book copy available for pick up at the event.
- FREE *STANDBY*: IRL Event entry based on capacity. Limited Signed copies will be available for purchase during the event. Due to our limited capacity, please only RSVP if you plan to attend.
- SIGNED BOOK ONLY: Can't make it IRL but want a signed copy? Order directly from our site!
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A vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition
Abolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, "What if abolition is something that grows?" As we struggle to build a liberatory, caring, loving, abundant future, we have much to learn from the work of birthing, raising, caring for, and loving future generations.
In We Grow the World Together, abolitionists and organizers Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson bring together a remarkable collection of voices revealing the complex tapestry of ways people are living abolition in their daily lives through parenting and caregiving. Ranging from personal narratives to policy-focused analysis to activist chronicles, these writers highlight how abolition is essential to any kind of parenting justice.
Contributors include:
Beth Richie
Harsha Walia
EJ, 6 years old
Dorothy Roberts
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Dylan Rodríguez
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn
Shira Hassan
Victoria Law
Mariame Kaba
The PDX Childcare Collective
adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown
and more
Kim Wilson is an artist, educator, writer, and organizer. She is the cofounder, cohost, and producer of Beyond Prisons, a podcast on incarceration and Pr*son abolition. A social scientist by training, Dr. Wilson has a PhD in Urban Affairs and Public Policy, and her work focuses on examining the interconnected functioning of systems, including poverty, racism, ableism, and heteropatriarchy, within a carceral structure. Her work delves into the extension and expansion of these systems beyond their physical manifestations of cages and fences, to reveal how carcerality is imbued in policy and practice. She explores how these systems synergize to exacerbate the challenges faced by under-resourced communities, revealing a deliberate intention to undermine and further marginalize vulnerable populations.
Dylan Rodríguez is a parent, teacher, scholar, organizer and collaborator who holds a job as a Distinguished Professor at the University of California-Riverside, where he has worked since 2001. He is a faculty member in the recently created Department of Black Study as well as the Department of Media and Cultural Studies.
Since the late-1990s, Dylan has participated as a founding member of organizations like Critical Resistance, Abolition Collective, Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Cops Off Campus, Scholars for Social Justice, and the UCR Department of Black Study, among others.
He is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
Dylan believes in the right—in fact, the obligation—of occupied, colonized, and incarcerated peoples to fight for their liberation against external oppressors as well as internal reactionaries, and the parallel responsibility of those who profess solidarity to take all necessary measures to protect, defend, and advance liberation struggle.
Susana Victoria Parras (she/her/hers) is the daughter of Guatemalan immigrants, mother, friend, partner and a mental health therapist of color committed to generating healing, justice and care through non-carceral practices. She has worked within and outside of some of the most carceral institutions in our current society: schools, hospitals, and social service providers. Before she found ethnic studies, social justice, abolition and transformative justice she found safety and hope in places and relationships that were imperfect, spacious, loving and curious. Her political homes include her partner Alejandro, family/place of origin, chosen family, ancestors and her imagination. She is accountable to ancestors, her inner children, her daughter, her partner, teachers and all those that cultivate her process of accountable care and growth. Susana specializes in anti carceral grief and suicide care & transformative collective practices within community settings. She currently provides anti-carceral mental health therapy through her practice Heal Together, building and growing Heal Together’s Anti-Carceral Care Collective and organizes with CAT 911 (Community Alternatives To Policing) in South Central Los Angeles where she also lives, loves, and works. Susana dedicates her life to organizing through healing as a central component for justice, resistance, and activism.
Alejandro Villalpando is a born-and-raised South Central Los Angeles resident and teacher-scholar in the Department of Pan African Studies and Latin American Studies Program at CSULA. His organizing, pedagogical, and scholarly commitments are grounded in Black and Indigenous histories and continuities of resistance to racial colonial and capitalist violence.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Reparations Club, 3054 South Victoria Avenue, Los Angeles, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 25.33
