We have a lighter workload this month due to the fact that we’re moving apartments, but will facilitate a Gender, Sex & Sexuality 101 to our neighbors at Sullivan High School for their Global Issues course. We’ll also lead an Intro to Prison Abolition training for the loved ones of incarcerated people through the Coalition…
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April 2022
This month we will continue our workshop series with the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, as well as lead an Intro to Prison Abolition workshop with members of Free Street Theater’s Youth Ensemble, informing their latest production 57 Blocks, which grapples with the intersections of incarceration and migration in Chicago. We’ll also return for the second…
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Last month we added a poetry reading for Chicago United for Equity’s program Cultivating Us to our schedule, performing alongside Chima Ikoro. We were also proud to have our first essay in Sixty Inches from Center, a response to Bimbola Akinbola’s in-progress performance/painting series Evidence at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. We were so…
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In terms of last month’s updates: In addition to facilitating a staff retreat for Dissenters, our essay “Practicing Abolition, Creating Community” was made into a zine by Project NIA, with accompanying illustrations by Emma Li. Based on comments we made on a panel last summer, the goal of the essay is both to make the…
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