Be sure to check out these really great upcoming events dealing with many of the issues examined through the symposium! This is an incredible opportunity to learn more about alternatives to the policing, surveillance, and punishment model of justice we've become adjusted to, and broaden Middlebury's discourse on justice issues.
Trans/Immigration and Prison Abolition
March 21 // 7:00 pm // Hillcrest 103 (Orchard)
In this lecture, Owen Daniel-McCarter will discuss the particular legal issues faced by transgender immigrants of color in the U.S., including an analysis of how current immigration policies disproportionately bar trans people of color from gaining citizenship, and how immigrant detainment practices uphold systems of misogynist, racist, homophobic, and transphobic violence. The lecture will address why these struggles are of concern to the Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice movements, and will conclude by outlining next steps that activists can take in dismantling interlocking systems of oppression. Owen-Daniel McCarter is the founding collective member and project attorney for the Transformative Justice Law Project (TJLP) in Chicago, which provides free, holistic legal services to poor transgender people of color targeted by the legal system throughout Illinois. Learn more here http://tjlp.org/.
Resisting the State: Transforming Justice
March 22 // 4:30 pm // Hillcrest 103 (Orchard)
In this workshop, Owen Daniel-McCarter and Baylie Roth '9.5 will lead a discussion of how state-sponsored systems of control negatively effect and create divisions among oppressed communities, including people of color, folks with disabilities, immigrants, women, poor people, and transgender people. We will question whether current national legal battles demanding things like hate crimes legislation, marriage recognition, and decriminalization of queer sex are harmful to our communities. The workshop will conclude with collective dreaming about what lessons can be shared among activists organizing both on and off college campuses, and how we can transform justice, empower disempowered communities, and push for liberation from institutional systems of control over our bodies. Owen-Daniel McCarter is the founding collective member and project attorney for the Transformative Justice Law Project (TJLP) in Chicago, which provides free, holistic legal services to poor transgender people of color targeted by the legal system throughout Illinois. Learn more here http://tjlp.org/.
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