Image Descriptions

Image descriptions for images 1-3, summarizing the conference, are included here. Images 4-6 depict the workshops on healing justice, building safety for trans women, and police sexual violence and #PoliceFreeSchools. Images 7-9 depict the three campaigns highlighted and discussed at the conference: #FreeGrace, #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor, and #JusticeForTonyMcDade.

Image 1: Conference Cover Page

Silhouettes of purple rocking chairs are drawn over a city horizon in purple, orange, and pink. The words “In Our Names Network Gathering: Working to End Police Violence Against Black Women, Girls, Trans, and Gender Nonconforming People” are spelled out over the horizon next to three power fists in purple and yellow. At the bottom of the drawing are the words “Allied Media Conference, #AMC2020 #InOurNamesNetwork, and inournamesnetwork.com.”

By the rocking chairs, the following names and associations are listed:

Justice for Tony McDade, Delilah Pierre, Tallahassee Community Action Committee

Justice for Breonna, Rachel Williams, Justice for Breonna, Free Grace, and Vivian Anderson, EveryBlackGirl Angelique Strong Marks #FreeGrace

Mental Health First, Cat Brooks, Anti-Police Terror Project, and Naimah Efia, #FreeToo and Black Women’s Blueprint

Probation and Parol Are Cops, too, Ashley Carter, Advancement Project

Defund Police, Abolition, and Police Accountability, Andrea Ritchie, Interrupting Criminalization

Defund ICE/CBO, Aneiry Zapata, Black LGBTQ Migrant Project

End the Drug War, Kassandra Frederique, Drug Policy Alliance

Black Feminist Future, Paris Hatcher, BFF and M4BL

And a Brief Discussion of Political Education for Abolition, Mariame Kaba and Woods Ervin

Police-Free Schools, Maria Fernandez, Advancement Project, and Mahnker Dahnweih, Freedom Inc.

Safety for Black Trans Women, A Conversation with Woods Ervin, Naomi Simmons-Thorne, Ms. Janetta, Toni Michelle Williams, Monica Jones, Bre Rivera, and Tamika Spellman

She Safe / We Safe, Nnenna Amuche, BYP100

Ending Police Sexual Violence, Ashley Sawyer, Girls for Gender Equity, and Bianca Gomez, Freedom, Inc.

Image 2: Conference Synthesis

The following text and images are arranged over a city horizon in purple, with an orange and pink sky. At the center, a purple circle with white text reads “The Abolitionist Defund Demand Connects Our Fights and Frames Our Understanding of the Movement.” Around the center are numbered circles with text, as well as associated images and explanations branching out.

1. Police violence is epidemic, patriarchal…much gender-based violence happens in private.

Drawing of house with text “Assaulting Partners,” and a street sign-post with the words “Street Harassment.”

Girls assaulted at school by cops: Crisis. They must be centered in the fight.

Drawing of alter with candles, flowers, and photos with words “Altars make more visible.”

A depiction of a spike on a chart reads “Spectacular, recording killings” with an arrow pointed to the top of the spike, and “Everyday cop violence and aggression” with an arrow pointed at the center of the data on the chart.

2. The negligence of the state is also a part of state violence.

Drawings of photos of “Breonna” and “Grace” are pictured in a line of dominos adjacent to a simple drawing of a residential street. Below, it reads “There are so many moments, choice points where the state’s negligence with the lives of Black women and girls creates the permissive context for violence against them…schools crumbling…gentrification…displacement…no mental health care…the Drug War.

3. So we need to cut off the cops and get community control and investment.

Get State Money: for housing, especially Black and trans, mental health, schools, and direct services.

Skill Up Our Folks: 1st aid, restorative practices, self defense, survivor support.

Grow Our Team: abolitionist community mapping. Where can we eliminate police today?

4. (For Black Folks) The PIC is a Tricky Trickster.

An angry octopus’s tentacles are holding more circles with the following text:

PIC is a multinational phenomenon. Folks migrate to escape it in their home lands.

Will shape-shift around COVID.

Uses “respectability” to justify the killings of some Black women.

All Cops! Master of Illusion.

The tentacles themselves are labeled with specific things like the Drug War, ICE/CBP, more surveillance, etc.

5. And liberal co-optation is a real threat now!

We gotta be vigilant…The PIC will grow new heads!

Like Liberal Feminists demanding women cops.

Counselors not cops, etc.

6. Our campaigns show the patterns that produce police violence against Black women, trans, and gender nonconforming people. We honor their lives by ensuring this never happens again.

Candles burn for “Breonna Taylor” and “Tony McDade” and there is also a flyer with a power fist that reads “Free Grace.”

Image 3: Timeline of the Network

The following text and images are arranged over a city horizon in purple, with an orange and pink sky.

Timeline of the Network: AMC 2016 [booklet], Amplify Cases [bullhorn], Connect Resources and Strategy, Built Out Digital Resources [laptop].

Next in the timeline is a large circle with roots hovers over the horizon, reading “Highlander Gathering 2019: Deepen attention to root causes of police violence against Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people and [connects to another circle] plan to focus on: safety for Black trans women, police sexual violence in schools, and mental health responses.

Below the horizon on the left is a large circle that reads “Organizing cycle: when we began to knit this work together:” Police killing [candle], protests mobilizing around the killing [protesters marching], protestors criminalization [handcuffs], organizing to support protesters [bullhorn], demanding cops be fired and charged [checklist], they’re not or their cases drag on and momentum flags or they are and our sisters’ names get dragged through the mud.

An empty gas tank reads “We’re so depleted,” and an arrow with the following text connects to the next thread: “And we’re not creating the conditions to prevent the next killing.”

Now…

We are still lifting up individual cases and demanding justice.

We are collectively attending to the conditions and root causes of police violence against women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people. We’re keeping a steady drum beat.

We are in a time that we can spotlight that policing is inherently patriarchal: enforcing the gender binary, control of bodies, toxic masculinity.

And police violence against Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people is more visible than ever! And we’re seeing wins through the defund frame!