“All Our Trials”: A Talk by Dr. Emily Thuma
October 7, 2019
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location
Latino Cultural Center
Address
803 S. Morgan Street, Lecture Center B, Chicago, IL
Calendar
Download iCal FileDuring the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and
outside of prison forged a radical politics against gender
violence and incarceration. All Our Trials explores the work
of these activists who placed criminalized women, and the
multiple violences they confronted, at the heart of their
organizing. Drawing on extensive archival research, Emily
Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at
the intersections of movements for racial and economic
justice, prisoners’ and psychiatric patients’ rights, and
gender and sexual liberation. In the process, she
illuminates a crucial chapter in a struggle that continues in
today's movements against mass incarceration and for
transformative justice.
Emily Thuma is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Politics,
Philosophy, and Public Affairs at the University of Washington, Tacoma.
Date posted
Sep 13, 2019
Date updated
Sep 13, 2019