“Keeping Each Other Safe”
November 7, 2022
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
Zoom
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Since the sexual assault and murder of UIC student Ruth George on campus in November 2019, UIC undergraduate students have expressed concern about campus safety and existing strategies for keeping our campus safe, especially for women and gender non-conforming BIPOC students. In response to these concerns, a group of UIC students and faculty who have a commitment to enhancing safety options on UIC's campus without involving the police or other carceral systems invite you to a virtual panel discussion.
This discussion, hosted by Criminology, Law and Justice at UIC and Gender and Women's Studies at UIC, as well as the Abolition Teaching and Learning Network, at UIC will be grounded in a definition of safety that recognizes how gender violence targets those most marginalized because of their race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, identity, disability, legal background and status.
While the event is open to all, the program is organized to center the experiences and needs of UIC students who are committed to creating a safer campus community for all, especially our most marginalized and vulnerable community members.
Come learn from impacted and experienced activists/educators about how we can build together systems of accountability outside of harmful and carceral responses, on the campus and beyond.
Panelists include:
- Monica Cosby, Acting OutSide Performance Art Crew
- Benji Hart, No Cop Academy
- Bresha Meadows, Lifted Voices
- Soha Khatib, University of Illinois Chicago undergraduate student-activist, who organizes around Black and Palestinian struggles on campus, will moderate the panel
Access Needs: CART services will be provided. Please email gwsinfo@uic.edu with additional access requests.
Date posted
Nov 4, 2022
Date updated
Nov 4, 2022