Some omitted May updates: We joined young people from the #NoCopAcademy campaign for a screening of SoapBox Productions’ NCA documentary at DePaul University’s downtown campus. Sponsored by 14 East Magazine, we followed the film with a panel discussion alongside Caullen Hudson, Karina Martínez, and Citlali Pérez, discussing how notions of “public safety” have shifted in…
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We took a surprise trip to Atlanta last month for the #StopCopCity Week of Action with a contingent of youth and adult allies from the #NoCopAcademy campaign in Chicago. We participated in a Black-led march, and screened a rough cut of Soap Box Productions’ #NoCopAcademy documentary for ATL organizers! It was a huge honor to…
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There was some lovely coverage of our workshop last month at Northwestern’s Women’s Center in the Northwestern Daily. Thanks again to melisa stephen for organizing the conversation, and to everyone who participated in the inspiring and encouraging moment. We also wrote an op-ed for In These Times drawing connections between the #NoCopAcademy campaign that fought…
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At the close of October, our first piece as an embedded writer for Chicago Dancemakers Forum’s Production Residency appeared in the Performance Response Journal. Our response to Ivelisse Díaz’s in-progress performance Contra la Corriente took the form of an abstract poem, mirroring the structure of the work as it currently stands, and can be read…
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Benji Hart 