Upcoming events.
BYAT: Painting the Ocean and the Sky with Shira Hassan
Are you interested in forming a crisis response team that doesn't use the police? Join us for this workshop with Shira Hassan, the latest in our Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox series with Project NIA.
Envisioning and Enacting Abolitionist Futures: A Screening and Discussion of One Million Experiments
A discussion and screening of One Million Experiments, a film exploring how people are defining and creating safety to build a world without police and prisons, followed by a conversation with Mariame Kaba and Eva Nagao
Ella Baker for the 21st Century: National One Day Symposium
Presented by BCRW and the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University, a day-long symposium featuring a keynote by Angela Davis and Barbara Ransby, panels with nationally recognized scholars, and a celebratory reception.
BYAT: Abolitionist Bystander Intervention
Facilitated by JJ Skolnik and Mariame Kaba, join us as we introduce our new pocket zine along with a mini-training geared towards youth. A Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox session.
BCRW: Grace Lee Boggs ‘35 Lecture: Mariame Kaba (In-Person)
Join the Barnard Center for Research on Women for the second annual Grace Lee Boggs ‘35 Lecture with Mariame Kaba, longtime organizer, educator, librarian and co-author of Let This Radicalize You.
Reading, Writing & Compiling Zines: Mariame Kaba
Mariame Kaba shares her thoughts and practice of reading, writing, and compiling zines, as part of the public lecture series on zines hosted by the School for Poetic Computation.
CANCELED: Practicing New Worlds x Let This Radicalize You (Virtual)
This event has been canceled, and we invite everyone to join us in attending the Abolition Means No More War: Free Palestine Now! event being hosted Critical Resistance and Haymarket Books at this time. 🇵🇸 Palestine will be free.
Emergent Strategies and Anti-Violence Movements (Virtual)
Andrea J. Ritchie, Mimi Kim, Kalayo Pestaño, Matice Mooore, and Stas Schmiedt in a virtual conversation about emergent strategies and anti-violence movements.
Andrea Ritchie: Abolition and Emergent Strategies — Firestorm Books (Virtual)
Abolitionist writer Andrea J. Ritchie joins Firestorm Books for a conversation with Shane Burley about using emergent strategies to meet this moment, survive what is to come, and shape safer and more just futures.
Andrea Ritchie presents Practicing New Worlds — Red Emma’s (In-Person)
Red Emma's in Baltimore welcomes abolitionist author, activist, and attorney Andrea J. Ritchie in person to celebrate the release of her new book, " Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies."
Return to Sender: Prison as Censorship Closing Reception (In-Person)
The closing reception of the Return to Sender: Prison as Censorship exhibition at the EFA Project Space in NYC.
Return to Sender — Curator-Led Tours (In-Person)
Return to Sender: Prison As Censorship exhibition curator Mariame Kaba will provide 45-minute tours every hour on the hour throughout the day at the EFA Project Space in NYC.
Practicing New Worlds — National Women's Studies Association Conference (In-Person)
Practicing New Worlds author Andrea J. Ritchie in conversation with Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Brittany Brathwaite at the National Women’s Studies Association conference in Baltimore.
BYAT: Criminalization 101 for Information Workers (Virtual)
A teach-in on Criminalization 101 for Information Workers facilitated by For The People Leftist Library, as part of Interrupting Criminalization and Project NIA’s Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox series.
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies — Charis Books (Virtual)
Charis welcomes Andrea J. Ritchie in conversation with Kamau Franklin, Micah Herskind, and Dr. Mariah Parker for a discussion of Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies.
Let This Radicalize You with Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes (Hybrid)
Join co-authors Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba in conversation with Tanuja Jagernauth about their book Let This Radicalize You, hosted by DePaul Women’s Center.
Practicing New Worlds — Official Launch (In-Person)
The official launch event celebrating the release of Practicing New Worlds by Andrea J. Ritchie, taking place in Detroit and featuring the Complex Movements Collective, Diana Nucera (aka Mother Cyborg), and Curtis Renée.
Practicing New Worlds — Official Launch (Virtual)
The official virtual launch of Practicing New Worlds by Andrea J. Ritchie, featuring Andrea in conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and adrienne maree brown.
Safe Not Sexualized: Protecting Black Girls and Gender Expansive Youth from School Police Sexual Violence
A virtual event featuring a conversation with Andrea J. Ritchie, Tarana Burke, advocates, researchers, and students, about school police sexual violence.
Building Coordinated Crisis Response
A monthly Learning Space for groups and organizations responding to crisis without police.
Practicing New Worlds IG Live Series: Adaku Utah
Weekly Instagram Live series featuring Andrea J. Ritchie in conversation with abolitionist organizers about emergent strategies.
RTS: Abolition Joy Hours - Herbalism and High Tea
As part of the Return to Sender exhibition, join us for Abolition Joy Hours!
Practicing New Worlds IG Live Series: Shira Hassan
Weekly Instagram Live series featuring Andrea J. Ritchie in conversation with abolitionist organizers about emergent strategies.
RTS: Take Action Day
Join us on October 7 as part of Banned Books Week to discuss prison censorship and to take actions against it. Activities will take place in-person at the People’s Forum in New York.
Practicing New Worlds IG Live Series: Sage Crump
Weekly Instagram Live series featuring Andrea J. Ritchie in conversation with abolitionist organizers about emergent strategies.
RTS: Abolition Joy Hours - Button Making and Hot Chocolate
As part of the Return to Sender exhibition, join us for Abolition Joy Hours!
How Do We Relate to the State?
A virtual event featuring a conversation about the role of the state in building abolitionist futures
BYAT — Young People and Mandated Reporting
The latest session in the Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox series, this is a release event for "You Matter: An Illustrated Guide for Young People Beyond Mandatory Reporting."
RTS: Prison Journalism and Censorship
A virtual event featuring a conversation between Empowerment Avenue incarcerated writers Christopher Blackwell, Kwanetta Harris, Sara Kielly, and Emily Nonko.
Practicing New Worlds IG Live Series: Prentis Hemphill
Weekly Instagram Live series featuring Andrea J. Ritchie in conversation with abolitionist organizers about emergent strategies.