In this episode, host Deana Lewis talks with micah hobbes frazier and Morgan Bassichis, two trans/nonbinary leaders of the transformative justice/prison abolition movement emerging out of radical organizing in queer/trans spaces in the early to mid-2000’s. micah, in his role at generationFIVE and in the harm reduction movement, and Morgan, formerly at Communities United Against Violence (CUAV), reflect on the centrality of queer/trans justice, racial and economic justice, and prison abolition as anchors to early transformative justice work. In stark contrast to the conservative LGBTQ movement’s embrace of marriage, military inclusion, hate crimes and “pinkwashing” that continue to shape neoliberal discourse, Micah and Morgan trace abolitionist BIPOC-led queer/trans organizing back to the radical roots of the Black Panthers and Oakland–based racial and economic justice movement origins.

List of references mentioned in this episode:

Jewish Voice for Peace

Communities United Against Violence (CUAV)

Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project

Critical Resistance

Justice Now

Living Room Project

generationFIVE

White Night riots

Transforming Justice Conference

US Social Forum - Detroit (2010)

US Social Forum - Atlanta (2007)

Black Panthers (Archive)

Audre Lorde Project - Safe Outside the System (SOS)

StoryTelling Organizing & Project (STOP)

Pinkwashing

Mohammad el-Kurd

Dean Spade

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

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Digital Strategy- Yessica Gonzalez

Graphic Design - And Also Too

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