An update from November: We spoke briefly at UIC’s Asian American Resource & Cultural Center for their Trans Day of Remembrance event, which this year honored the late Mark Aguhar. Before we moved to Chicago and were still blogging under the moniker Radical Faggot, Mark was one of our original supporters. She helped get some…
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We closed out June with a journalism roundtable at the Chicago Transformation Collab, joining Cara Reedy, Sarah Stillman, Keri Blakinger, Maya Schenwar, Josie Duffy Rice, and Jacqui Germain to discuss the role of writers and editors in interrogating carceral narratives, and pushing their readership towards abolition. It was a crucial conversation in a moment where…
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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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