October 28-29
1-6:30 PM ET / 12-5:30 PM CT / 11 AM – 4:30 PM MT / 10 AM – 3:30 PM PT each day
Join Interrupting Criminalization (IC), Community Justice Exchange (CJE), and the Disability Project at Transgender Law Center for a two-day virtual convening of abolitionist organizers and others working to interrupt criminalization in the context of care!
The administration’s eugenic agenda becomes more and more blatant every day through executive orders, actions, and funding cuts targeting disabled people, people with unmet mental health needs, unhoused people, drug users, and trans and gender non-conforming people for criminalization and institutionalization that will force many disabled people into a multitude of carceral spaces including and beyond jails, prisons, and detention centers.
It is therefore more critical than ever for abolitionist organizers and people confronting criminalization under the guise of “care” to expand our visions, campaigns, demands, and strategies to fight all efforts to coerce, warehouse, disappear, torture, and punish our people, avoid strategies that simply push people from one carceral space to another, and ensure that we leave no one behind in any carceral space.
ABOLITION MEANS ALL CARCERAL SPACES will offer grounding in principles and practices of carceral eugenics and disability justice, highlight their increasing relevance under authoritarianism, and equip abolitionist organizers with analysis, tools, examples, and thought partnership to build campaigns that:
recognize, challenge, and work to free people from and eliminate the existence of carceral spaces beyond jails, prisons, and detention centers, including locked wards, nursing facilities, “sheltered” workshops, and mandated/coercive medical interventions and facilities;
resist current and emerging efforts to further scapegoat, criminalize, warehouse, institutionalize, and punish disabled people;
experiment with and practice liberatory approaches to organizing rooted in disability and healing justice within and beyond carceral spaces.
To join us, please complete the registration form below by October 15th! Space is limited — do not delay!
We are grateful to the many directly impacted and disabled organizers and collaborators who emphasized the necessity for such a convening, helped us with thinking through and planning, and informed convening topic areas.