When We Get Free: Transformative Justice & Abolition with Erica Violet Lee

Free Up! is an 8 part abolition & transformative justice learning series benefitting thePrisoner Emergency Support Fund. Organized byRania El Mugammar, with generous contributions from guest facilitators, this virtual series features workshops, panels, case studies and labs that explore justice for incarcerated folks, dreaming and building abolitionist futures, transformative justice in our families, building alternatives to policing, mutual aid and more.

Free Up! Abolition & Transformative Justice Series

An intimate and critical conversation with Erica Violet Lee nēhiyaw writer, political theorist, Indigenous feminist, and community organizer

An intimate and critical conversation with Erica Violet Lee nēhiyaw writer, political theorist, Indigenous feminist, and community organizer from inner-city Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Exploring themes of abolition, Indigenous resistance and sovereignty, carceral punishment as colonial violence, and how we move closer to transformative justice in our interpersonal relationships and political organizing.Erica Violet Lee is a nēhiyaw/Cree poet, Native hood scholar, and community organizer from Saskatoon, living on her Treaty Six homelands. She spends her time thinking about Indigenous femme knowledge keeping, how we find and make ceremony as urban Native people, and the necessity of making time for pleasure and joy toward our shared liberation.ASL | Live Captioning | Notetaker*this session has no prerequisites Free Up! is an 8 part abolition &amp; transformative justice learning series benefitting the <a href="https://ca.gofundme.com/f/euz3f9-prisoner-emergency-support-fund" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Prisoner Emergency Support Fund.</a> Organized by Rania El Mugammar, with generous contributions from guest facilitators, this virtual series features workshops, panels, case studies and labs that explore justice for incarcerated folks, dreaming and building abolitionist futures, transformative justice in our families, building alternatives to policing, mutual aid and more.The series can be experienced as an immersive course, or on a session-by-session basis*. 100% of ticket sales support the Prisoner Emergency Support Fund.*Please note that Intro to Transformative Justice - the first session in the series is a prerequisite for case studies and more advanced/later sessions. Please see each session description for more information.Please note:We strive to create a brave space for all participants. In order to help folks make bold moves into progressive thinking and actions, all conversations and material shared during these workshops are strictly confidential and cannot be shared through media of any kind.

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