Stories for Power

Abolition Feminisms

Deana Lewis chats with Beth Richie and Alisa Bierria about the historical context and motivations behind their influential books that have been informed by and inform abolition feminism. Emphasizing practice as a lead to theory, both authors discuss the importance of their decades long on-the-ground work in the anti-violence movement, the struggle against anti-Black racism and the defense of criminalized survivors as a long arc towards freedom. They also reflect on their shared grounding in faith as necessary to remaining steady along the ever-changing pathway to liberation.  List of references mentioned in this episode Incite! Women & Trans People Against Violence [https://incite-national.org] Critical Resistance [https://criticalresistance.org] Arrested Justice [https://nyupress.org/9780814776230/arrested-justice/] Abolition. Feminism. Now.  [https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1546-abolition-feminism-now] Compelled to Crime [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315656557/compelled-crime-beth-richie] Abolition Feminisms Vol. 1  [https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1881-abolition-feminisms-vol-1] Abolition Feminisms Vol. 2 [https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1955-abolition-feminisms-vol-2] Social Justice: Special Issue: Reimagining Community Accountability in Theory and Practice, 37(4) [https://communityaccountability.wordpress.com/social-justice-journal-issue/] by Rojas Durazo, A., Bierria, A., & Kim, M. (2010).  [https://communityaccountability.wordpress.com/social-justice-journal-issue/] Presented by Creative Interventions [https://www.creative-interventions.org]and Just Practice Collaborative [http://just-practice.org] Executive Producers — Mimi Kim [https://www.creative-interventions.org/about-the-founder/], Rachel Caïdor & Shira Hassan [https://just-practice.org/bios] Producer, Sound Recordist, and Editor — iLL Weaver for Emergence Media [http://emergencemedia.org] Host - Deana Lewis [https://just-practice.org/deana] Music Editor and Audio Engineer — Joe Namy [https://www.olivetones.com] Digital Strategy- Yessica Gonzalez [https://www.consultingqts.org/team] Graphic Design - And Also Too [https://www.andalsotoo.net] Theme song & music composed by — Scale Hands and L05 [http://l05.is] of Complex Movements [https://emergencemedia.org/pages/complex-movements] in collaboration with Ahya Simone [https://ahyasimone.live] Stories for Power is supported by Collective Futures Fund [https://www.collectivefuturesfund.org/] and Libra Foundation [https://www.thelibrafoundation.org/] Learn more and share your stories at StoriesforPower.org [https://StoriesforPower.org]

Radical Roots

Deana Lewis talks with Valli Kalei Kanuha, Mimi Kim and Andrea Ritchie, whose entry into the feminist of color movement spans the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s. Together, they weave a long view of the abolitionist feminist movement that crosses generations, geographic expanses from Hawaii to Minnesota to Toronto and movements including HIV AIDS, anti-imperialist/Third World feminism, anti-police violence, and trans and queer justice spaces. They discuss the importance of Critical Resistance and INCITE! which provided  collective homes for radical abolitionist feminist of color organizing, joining seemingly isolated and disconnected political trajectories into a powerful force that has evolved into today’s abolitionist movement. List of references mentioned in this episode: Incite! Women & Trans People Against Violence [https://incite-national.org] Critical Resistance [https://criticalresistance.org] Gay Men’s Health Crisis  [https://gmhc.org/at-a-glance/] Roger McFarland  [https://gaycitynews.com/rodger-mcfarlane-aids-gay-community-builder-dead-at-54/] Larry Kramer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Kramer] ACT UP [https://actupny.com/contact/] Community Accountability within the Progressive POC Movement  [https://incite-national.org/community-accountability-within-people-of-color-progressive-movements/] Ejeris Dixon  [https://www.ejeris.com] Safe Outside the System [https://alp.org/programs/sos] Morgan Bassichis  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Bassichis] Community United Against Violence [https://www.cuav.org] Young Women’s Empowerment Project [http://youarepriceless.org] Nadine Naber  [https://nadinenaber.com] Paula Rojas [https://sfonline.barnard.edu/author/paula-x-rojas/] kai lumumba barrow [https://www.kailbarrow.com/biography] Presented by Creative Interventions [https://www.creative-interventions.org]and Just Practice Collaborative [http://just-practice.org] Executive Producers — Mimi Kim [https://www.creative-interventions.org/about-the-founder/], Rachel Caïdor & Shira Hassan [https://just-practice.org/bios] Producer, Sound Recordist, and Editor — iLL Weaver for Emergence Media [http://emergencemedia.org] Host - Deana Lewis [https://just-practice.org/deana] Music Editor and Audio Engineer — Joe Namy [https://www.olivetones.com] Digital Strategy- Yessica Gonzalez [https://www.consultingqts.org/team] Graphic Design - And Also Too [https://www.andalsotoo.net] Theme song & music composed by — Scale Hands and L05 [http://l05.is] of Complex Movements [https://emergencemedia.org/pages/complex-movements] in collaboration with Ahya Simone [https://ahyasimone.live] Stories for Power is supported by Collective Futures Fund [https://www.collectivefuturesfund.org/] and Libra Foundation [https://www.thelibrafoundation.org/] Learn more and share your stories at StoriesforPower.org [https://StoriesforPower.org]

Chicago

Deana Lewis talks with Mariame Kaba, Erica Meiners, and Shira Hassan - three abolitionist feminists who discuss the work they created and built in Chicago from the early 2000’s through the early 2010’s. They reflect on their path from witnessing the failures of the mainstream anti-violence movement especially for survivors, young people, formerly incarcerated people and sex workers – to experimenting and documenting their work in what became known as community accountability processes, transformative justice and abolitionist organizing. They talk about their relationships and how their solidarity and partnership fed their ability to experiment, find joy in the grief and ultimately create spaces and strategies for people to stay as safe as possible. List of references mentioned in this episode: Incite! Women & Trans People Against Violence [https://incite-national.org], Critical Resistance [https://criticalresistance.org], Roger’s Park Women’s Action Team (YWAT) [https://www.rogersparkywat.org], Young Women’s Empowerment Project (YWEP) [http://youarepriceless.org], Project NIA [https://project-nia.org], Just Practice Collaborative [http://just-practice.org], Claudine O’Leary [https://www.rethinkresources.net/], Laura Janine Mintz [https://www.metrohealth.org/population-health-and-equity-research-institute/our-team/laura-mintz], New York Peer AIDS Education Coalition & Edith Springer [https://filtermag.org/harm-reduction-methadone-system/], Kelly McGowan [http://www.goingupstream.net/kelly.html], We Charge Genocide [http://wechargegenocide.org/], Chicago Freedom School [https://www.chicagofreedomschool.org/], Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls & Young Women [https://chitaskforce.wordpress.com/about/], Love and Protect [https://loveprotect.org/about/], Interrupting Criminalization [https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/], People Leftist Library Project [https://www.librariesforthepeople.org/], Between Friends [https://betweenfriendschicago.org/], Illinois Deaths in Custody Project [https://ildeathsincustody.org/], Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project [https://p-nap.org/], Education for Liberation Network [https://www.edliberation.org/], (more show notes at StoriesforPower.org)  Presented by Creative Interventions [https://www.creative-interventions.org]and Just Practice Collaborative [http://just-practice.org] Executive Producers — Mimi Kim [https://www.creative-interventions.org/about-the-founder/], Rachel Caïdor & Shira Hassan [https://just-practice.org/bios] Producer, Sound Recordist, and Editor — iLL Weaver for Emergence Media [http://emergencemedia.org] Host - Deana Lewis [https://just-practice.org/deana] Music Editor and Audio Engineer — Joe Namy [https://www.olivetones.com] Digital Strategy- Yessica Gonzalez [https://www.consultingqts.org/team] Graphic Design - And Also Too [https://www.andalsotoo.net] Theme song & music composed by — Scale Hands and L05 [http://l05.is] of Complex Movements [https://emergencemedia.org/pages/complex-movements] in collaboration with Ahya Simone [https://ahyasimone.live] Stories for Power is supported by Collective Futures Fund [https://www.collectivefuturesfund.org/] and Libra Foundation [https://www.thelibrafoundation.org/] Learn more and share your stories at StoriesforPower.org [https://StoriesforPower.org]

Seattle

Our host, Deana Lewis, chats with Theryn Kigvamasudvashti, Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby whose early community accountability work in Seattle rippled throughout the country. Their feminist abolitionist work inside and outside the evolving local domestic and sexual violence non-profit context in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s innovated so much of what we still use today. They discuss the critical work from Black-led, survivor-led, punk and queer and trans communities to create the many iconic projects such as Communities Against Rape and Assault (CARA) and API Chaya that were born during this critical era and that together dismantled the foundations of rape culture. List of references mentioned in this episode: Communities Agaisnt Rape and Abuse (CARA) [https://cara-seattle.blogspot.com], Alisa Bierria [https://gender.ucla.edu/person/alisa-bierria/], Eliaichi Kimaro [https://elikimaro.com/], Incite! Women & Trans People Against Violence [https://incite-national.org], Critical Resistance [https://criticalresistance.org], African American Task Force Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment [https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Committee_on_Women,_Population,_and_the_Environment], Sista II Sista [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10999949.2018.1607059], Sister Song [https://www.sistersong.net], Xandra Ibarra [https://www.xandraibarra.com/about/], For Crying Out Loud [https://forcryingoutloud206.wordpress.com/], Accountable Communities Consortium [https://accountablecommunities.com/], Northwest Network [https://www.nsvrc.org/organizations/northwest-network-bisexual-trans-lesbian-and-gay-survivors-abuse], Seattle Rape Relief [https://www.historylink.org/File/2300], API Chaya [https://www.apichaya.org], Mia Zapata [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Zapata] and The Gits [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gits], Home Alive [http://www.teachhomealive.org], Girl We Got You [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e5db922de02263658989e89/t/681154755d4793578e18c72e/1745966509625/GRRL+We+Got+You+2016], Collective Justice [https://www.collectivejusticenw.org], Incite Diagram on Community Accountability [https://drive.proton.me/urls/F8F91FB58G#m984l3t4NzWe] (see more at StoriesforPower.org) Presented by Creative Interventions [https://www.creative-interventions.org]and Just Practice Collaborative [http://just-practice.org] Executive Producers — Mimi Kim [https://www.creative-interventions.org/about-the-founder/], Rachel Caïdor & Shira Hassan [https://just-practice.org/bios] Producer, Sound Recordist, and Editor — iLL Weaver for Emergence Media [http://emergencemedia.org] Host - Deana Lewis [https://just-practice.org/deana] Music Editor and Audio Engineer — Joe Namy [https://www.olivetones.com] Digital Strategy- Yessica Gonzalez [https://www.consultingqts.org/team] Graphic Design - And Also Too [https://www.andalsotoo.net] Theme song & music composed by — Scale Hands and L05 [http://l05.is] of Complex Movements [https://emergencemedia.org/pages/complex-movements] in collaboration with Ahya Simone [https://ahyasimone.live] Stories for Power is supported by Collective Futures Fund [https://www.collectivefuturesfund.org/] and Libra Foundation [https://www.thelibrafoundation.org/] Learn more and share your stories at StoriesforPower.org [https://StoriesforPower.org]

Philly

Join our host Deana Lewis as she interviews Esteban Kelly and Jenna Peters-Golden who were core collective members of Philly Stands Up that worked to restore trust and justice within the Philadelphia punk community starting in the early 2000’s. Philly Stands Up developed essential frameworks and practices for supporting accountability and change for people who cause harm while also supporting survivors in their rage and healing via Philly’s Pissed. They talk about how their close knit queer and trans community impacted the larger activist world and supported the long term work to end sexual violence throughout the city and beyond. List of references mentioned in this episode: Food Not Bombs [http://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/]  Young Women’s Empowerment Project (YWEP) [https://youarepriceless.org]  Prometheus Radio [https://www.prometheusradio.org/about-prometheus-radio-project/] Philly’s PISSED [https://phillyspissed.net/sites/default/files/give%20me%20back%20interview.pdf] Cristy Road [https://www.croadcore.org] Philly Stands UP [https://phillystandsup.wordpress.com] Presented by Creative Interventions [https://www.creative-interventions.org]and Just Practice Collaborative [http://just-practice.org] Executive Producers — Mimi Kim [https://www.creative-interventions.org/about-the-founder/], Rachel Caïdor & Shira Hassan [https://just-practice.org/bios] Producer, Sound Recordist, and Editor — iLL Weaver for Emergence Media [http://emergencemedia.org] Host - Deana Lewis [https://just-practice.org/deana] Music Editor and Audio Engineer — Joe Namy [https://www.olivetones.com] Digital Strategy- Yessica Gonzalez [https://www.consultingqts.org/team] Graphic Design - And Also Too [https://www.andalsotoo.net] Theme song & music composed by — Scale Hands and L05 [http://l05.is] of Complex Movements [https://emergencemedia.org/pages/complex-movements] in collaboration with Ahya Simone [https://ahyasimone.live] Stories for Power is supported by Collective Futures Fund [https://www.collectivefuturesfund.org/] and Libra Foundation [https://www.thelibrafoundation.org/] Learn more and share your stories at StoriesforPower.org [https://StoriesforPower.org]