Deana Lewis talks with Mariame Kaba, Erica Meiners, and Shira Hassan - three abolitionist feminists who discuss the work they created and built in Chicago from the early 2000’s through the early 2010’s. They reflect on their path from witnessing the failures of the mainstream anti-violence movement especially for survivors, young people, formerly incarcerated people and sex workers – to experimenting and documenting their work in what became known as community accountability processes, transformative justice and abolitionist organizing. They talk about their relationships and how their solidarity and partnership fed their ability to experiment, find joy in the grief and ultimately create spaces and strategies for people to stay as safe as possible.

List of references mentioned in this episode:

Incite! Women & Trans People Against Violence, Critical Resistance, Roger’s Park Women’s Action Team (YWAT), Young Women’s Empowerment Project (YWEP), Project NIA, Just Practice Collaborative, Claudine O’Leary, Laura Janine Mintz, New York Peer AIDS Education Coalition & Edith Springer, Kelly McGowan, We Charge Genocide, Chicago Freedom School, Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls & Young Women, Love and Protect, Interrupting Criminalization, People Leftist Library Project, Between Friends, Illinois Deaths in Custody Project, Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project, Education for Liberation Network, (more show notes at StoriesforPower.org) 

Presented by Creative Interventions and Just Practice Collaborative

Executive Producers — Mimi Kim, Rachel Caïdor & Shira Hassan

Producer, Sound Recordist, and Editor — iLL Weaver for Emergence Media

Host - Deana Lewis

Music Editor and Audio Engineer — Joe Namy

Digital Strategy- Yessica Gonzalez

Graphic Design - And Also Too

Theme song & music composed by — Scale Hands and L05 of Complex Movements in collaboration with Ahya Simone

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