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…
Read MoreDecember 2021
We had an amazing adventure teaching and performing in Copenhagen last month, and are happy to be home! This month, we’ll have our fifth session with SJI’s Portal Project, shifting the focus of our conversation to the non-profit industrial complex, and reestablishing autonomy over the demands and resources that guide our movements. We’ll also sit…
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In terms of this month’s community work, we’ll have our fourth session with SJI’s Portal Project, and will teach a virtual Linking Anti-Blackness & Anti-Immigration session to adult members of the Pilgrim Congregational Church of Oak Park on October 7th. On the academic side, we’ll join our friend Timmy Châu in a virtual talk on…
Read MoreAugust 2021
We added a session for STOP Chicago’s Youth Action to our July calendar, offering an Intro to Prison Abolition and Trans & Queer Resistance to Policing workshop to Black youth on the South Side—our fourth summer with the program. We also learned that on Pride weekend, La Laboratoria Boricua de Vogue hosted a ball in…
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Benji Hart 