In the third episode of the "Queer Healing & Liberation Series," listen to abolitionists and anti-capitalist organizers Amy Tran and Katie Lee discuss the foundational principles of abolition, critique the mainstream “homonormativity” movement, analyze how prisons, healthcare inequities, and capitalism perpetuate violence, and how they define Queer Justice. 

Audio Produced by Sophie Warrick, and co-hosted by K McClendon, Teigh McGee, and Sam Koltes. Podcast Art by Mercy Garriga (@MercyFullRes). 

Full episode transcripts available at www.envisioningqueerjustice.org/episode-transcripts

This podcast is fiscally sponsored by Hamline University Center for Justice & Law, and PeaceFirst. All opinions expressed on this podcast do not reflect the views of our sponsors. 

Organizations to Check Out:

Please support Indigenous-led organizations, some located in the northern midwest (where most of our team is based), are Honor the Earth, the NDN Collective, and the Black Hills Bail and Legal Defense Fund. Check out native-land.ca as a tool to begin understanding the land you reside on, and understand your responsibilities to Indigenous people. 

In addition, please check out the following organizations named by Amy and Katie: 

Critical Resistance, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, BYP 100, Project NIA,  MPD 150, generationFIVE, Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, Incarcerated Workers Organizers Collective, and the Combahee River Collective.

Readings & Resources:

To learn more about prison abolition through a Queer lens, check out the Envisioning Queer Justice Toolkit, curated by the Envisioning Queer Justice Collaborative. In addition, check out the following reading lists on prison industrial complex abolition. 

• Resource Guide: Prisons, Policing, and Punishment | by Micah Herskind
• Prison Abolition Syllabus – AAIHS
• If You're New to Abolition: Study Group Guide

In addition, check out the following readings named by Amy Tran and Katie Lee: 

• The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde 
• Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference by Audre Lorde 
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire 
• What Is Homonormativity? By Buffy Flores 
• Gay Power is Trans History: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries by Women at the Center 
• Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis 

Join co-host Sam Koltes (she/her & they/them) and Dr. Raj Sethuraju (he/him & they/them) as they discuss restorative justice and its practice, addressing the roots rather than the symptoms of systemic harm, explore the intersectional manifestations of oppression, and advocate for a humanity-centered approach to healing.

Audio Produced by Sophie Warrick, and co-hosted by K McClendon, Teigh McGee, and Sam Koltes. Podcast Art designed by Mercy Garriga (@MercyFullRes). Full episode transcripts available at www.envisioningqueerjustice.org 

Fiscally sponsored by Hamline University Center for Justice & Law, and PeaceFirst. All opinions expressed on this podcast do not reflect the views of our sponsors. 

Organizations to Check Out:

Please support Indigenous-led organizations, some located in the northern midwest (where most of our team is based), including Honor the Earth, the NDN Collective, and the Black Hills Bail and Legal Defense Fund. Check out native-land.ca as a tool to begin understanding the land you reside on, and understand your responsibilities to Indigenous people. 

Readings & Resources:

Check out the following readings and resources referenced by Dr. Raj Sethuraju: 

• Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi | IndieBound.org https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781570625343
• Minneapolis Charter Commission Puts Police Changes On Hold : NPR https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/899881941/minneapolis-charter-commission-puts-police-changes-on-hold
• Why Change the Charter? Demystifying the Charter Amendment on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/436091588
• Dialogue Up – Transformative Justice & Restorative Practices https://dialogueup.com/
• Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism - Zinn Education Project https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/sundown-towns/
• Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington | IndieBound.org https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780872867659
• Author: James Baldwin | IndieBound.org https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=author%3ABaldwin%2C%20James

In this episode, criminal defense advocate and law student Jordan Madden explores the criminalization of Queerness using a historical lens; using individual cases to magnify systemic layers of oppression. Jordan discusses the importance of considering who holds the power in narratives and how this shapes the work moving forward.

Audio Produced by Sophie Warrick, and co-hosted by Sam Koltes. Podcast Art designed by Mercy Garriga (@MercyFullRes). Full episode transcripts available at www.envisioningqueerjustice.org 

Fiscally sponsored by Hamline University Center for Justice & Law, and PeaceFirst. All opinions expressed on this podcast do not reflect the views of our sponsors. 

Organizations to Check Out:

Please support Indigenous-led organizations, some located in the northern midwest (where most of our team is based), including Honor the Earth, the NDN Collective, and the Black Hills Bail and Legal Defense Fund. Check out native-land.ca as a tool to begin understanding the land you reside on, and understand your responsibilities to Indigenous people. 

In addition, please check out the following organizations named by Jordan Madden: 

• University of Michigan's National Register of Exonerees 
• Marcia Gallo- Scholar at the University of Nevada

Readings & Resources:

Check out the following readings and resources named by Jordan Madden: 

• Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin 
• Rhoades v. Iowa
• Ryan White Care Act 
• Kitty Genovese by Kevin Cook
• ACT UP
• Mattachine Society
• 37 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police; Apathy at Stabbing of Queens Woman Shocks Inspector New York Times article on Kitty Genovese murder
• The Witness Documentary on Kitty Genovese murder 
• Compton Cafeteria Riots
• Death of Leelah Alcorn
• You're Wrong About Podcast with Sarah Marshall & Michael Hobbes 

Join co-host Teigh McGee and guests Beau RaRa, Damion Mendez, and Diana Current as they share their experiences with gender’s impact in law enforcement and the prison system, how corrections “handles” gender and mental health, barriers and discrimination faced when trying to seek assistance and legal gender affirmation, and a discussion on what queer justice looks like in an ideal world.

Audio Produced by Sophie Warrick, and co-hosted by K McClendon, Teigh McGee, and Sam Koltes. Podcast Art designed by Mercy Garriga (@MercyFullRes). Full episode transcripts available at www.envisioningqueerjustice.org 

Fiscally sponsored by Hamline University Center for Justice & Law, and PeaceFirst. All opinions expressed on this podcast do not reflect the views of our sponsors. 

Organizations to Check Out:

Please support Indigenous-led organizations, some located in the northern midwest (where most of our team is based), including Honor the Earth, the NDN Collective, and the Black Hills Bail and Legal Defense Fund. Check out native-land.ca as a tool to begin understanding the land you reside on, and understand your responsibilities to Indigenous people. 

In addition, please check out the following organizations and resources named by co-host Teigh McGee, and our guests Beau RaRa, Damion Mendez, and Diana Current:

• Black Disability Collective (@BlackDisability) / Twitter https://twitter.com/blackdisability
• Women for Political Change https://www.womenforpoliticalchange.org/
• teigh mcgee (@astoldbyteighlor) • Instagram https://www.instagram.com/astoldbyteighlor/
• Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action #5) | IndieBound.org https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780807051160
• Poet Alok Vaid-Menon: 'I Am Part Of Something Greater Than Myself' | HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alok-vaid-menon_n_5b27dae4e4b0783ae12bd140
• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds | IndieBound.org https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781849352604
• "Our armies are rising and we are getting stronger." | Sylvia Rivera 2001 http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/riverarisingandstronger.html
• Legal aid for people with low income, disabilities, and seniors - Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid https://mylegalaid.org/

Join Rachel, Britton and Kel for a conversation on being being Queer in rural Minnesota. Rachel, Britton and Kel discuss what community means in the time of Covid-19, organizing the Queer community in Central Minnesota, and finding belonging. 

Audio Produced by Sophie Warrick, and co-hosted by K McClendon, Teigh McGee, and Sam Koltes. Podcast Art designed by Mercy Garriga (@MercyFullRes). Full episode transcripts available at www.envisioningqueerjustice.org 

 Fiscally sponsored by Hamline University Center for Justice & Law, and PeaceFirst. All opinions expressed on this podcast do not reflect the views of our sponsors. 

Organizations to Check Out:

Please support Indigenous-led organizations, some located in the northern midwest (where most of our team is based), including Honor the Earth, the NDN Collective, and the Black Hills Bail and Legal Defense Fund. Check out native-land.ca as a tool to begin understanding the land you reside on, and understand your responsibilities to Indigenous people. 

In a conversation with Teigh McGee (they/them), Cirien Saadeh (she/her) introduces us to the concept of Journalism of Color as a way to re-envision journalism as it currently exists in order to more effectively create change in our world using a community organizing lens. We are taken through a workshop/training conducted by Cirien, where we apply the concepts of “journalism of color” to creating pitches for stories. 

Audio Produced by Sophie Warrick, and co-hosted by Teigh McGee. Podcast Art designed by Mercy Garriga (@MercyFullRes). Full episode transcripts available at www.envisioningqueerjustice.org 

Fiscally sponsored by Hamline University Center for Justice & Law, and PeaceFirst. All opinions expressed on this podcast do not reflect the views of our sponsors. 

Organizations to Check Out:

Please support Indigenous-led organizations, some located in the northern midwest (where most of our team is based), including Honor the Earth, the NDN Collective, and the Black Hills Bail and Legal Defense Fund. Check out native-land.ca as a tool to begin understanding the land you reside on, and understand your responsibilities to Indigenous people. 

In addition, please check out the following organizations named by Cirien Saadeh: 

• The UpTake
• Prescott College
• SPNN
• Media Alliance
• Voices for Racial Justice
• KSTP
• OpenNews
• PressOn Foundation
• Pillsbury United 
• Fond du Lac Community and Tribal College

Readings & Resources:

Check out the following readings and resources named by Cirien Saadeh:

• Radical News Radio Hour
• Journalism of Color
• Salt by Nayyirah Waheed 
• North News
• WFMU
• Upper Harbor Terminal
• Sahan Journal
• The Quilt: Policy, Art & Healing
• Pointergate
• Spokesman Recorder
• SourceCon
• NPR
• Star Tribune
• Patrisse Cullors
• Black Lives Matter
• Anita Fernandez
• Ruth Hoffman
• Ernesto (Todd) Mireles
• Ned Moore