Envisioning Queer Justice Podcast

By: Envisioning Queer Justice Collaborative
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  • The LGBTQIA+ youth led podcast seeking to disrupt punitive and exclusionary conceptions of justice by interviewing people in the LGBTQIA+ community who envision justice as healing, creation, and transformation. Co-hosted by Teigh McGee, K McClendon, & Sam Koltes, with audio by Sophie Warrick. Cover art by Mercy Garriga.
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  • Queer Anti-Violence & Liberatory Healing

    Queer Anti-Violence & Liberatory Healing
    Sep 7 2020
    Listen to co-host K McClendon (they/them) and Dominique Cowling (she/her), an earth and fire Black femme who is the Healing Justice Program Manager at Community United Against Violence in San Francisco, discuss the resilience of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people, explore the duality of joy and grief, address nuances of violence, and envision liberatory healing in nature and in community.    Audio Produced by Sophie Warrick, and co-hosted by K McClendon, Teigh McGee, and Sam Koltes. Podcast Cover Art designed by Mercy Garriga (@MercyFullRes).   Full episode transcripts available at www.envisioningqueerjustice.org/episode-transcripts     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.    Guest Contact Information W: www.cuav.org  E: dominique@cuav.org  IG: cuav_sf    W: www.brownsugayogini.com E: brownsugayogini@gmail.com IG: brownsugahealing   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, teachers, and practitioners from Dominique:  Resources (All womxn of color, majority Black womxn and femmes)  Satya de la paz  Founder of Soulflowoakland  POC Yoga  F www.facebook.com/satyabodyworks/ IG www.instagram.com/soulflowoakland/   Valerie Chafograck  Founder of Dance Sanctuary (Soul in Motion)  W www.dancesanctuary.com/ F www.facebook.com/valerie.chafograck IG www.instagram.com/valeriechafograck/   Cara Page W https://carapage.co/about/    Erica Woodland  Consultant and Psychotherapist  Founder of National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network  W www.ericawoodland.com/   Shirley Johnson  Founder of Soulistic Wellness  Psychotherapy and Kundalini Yoga  W www.soulisticwellness.com/about   Christina Winesberry  Psychotherapy and Spiritual Counseling W www.christinamwinesberry.com   Mushim Ikeda  East Bay Meditation Center  W eastbaymeditation.org/ IG www.instagram.com/ebmc_oakland/   Michelle Cassandra Johnson W www.michellecjohnson.com/ IG www.instagram.com/skillinaction/   Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams W angelkyodowilliams.com/ IG www.instagram.com/zenchangeangel/   MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES   National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network LGBTQ Psychologists of Color  Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM) Harriet's Apothecary  SUPPORT BLACK TRANS LED ORGANIZATIONS  Transgender Gender-Variant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP)  Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNAPCo)  Trans Sistas of Color Project BreakOUT  UNDERSTANDING THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX What is the PIC? Prison Culture ADDITIONAL RESOURCES   Transform Harm  Bay Area Transformative Justice   Vision Change Win  Addressing Harm, Accountability, and Healing Creative Interventions  Survived and Punished  Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective INCITE! Black Feminist Collective  Nap Ministry   Readings  The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der KolkThe Body is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee TaylorWhite Supremacy's Inferiority Complex by Khaled DiabAnalysis of Violence by Community United Against Violence Dear White People, Stop Gaslighting Us, We didn’t “Imagine” Racism by Diya
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Exploring Prison Abolition

    Exploring Prison Abolition
    Sep 7 2020

    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 

     
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Intersectional Suicide Prevention & Restorative Justice

    Intersectional Suicide Prevention & Restorative Justice
    Sep 20 2020
    Join Dorothy (they/she), a suicide prevention advocate, and Conner (he/him), a restorative justice practitioner, as they discuss intersectional suicide prevention, community care without police, psychiatric incarceration, how to build safety amongst your pod, and working in the non-profit sector with prison abolitionist values.  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/episode-transcripts  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 organizers named by Dorothy & Conner: Organizations: Barnard Center for Research on WomenJust Practice Bay Area Transformative Justice CollectiveCritical Resistance Organizers: Kimberlé W. Crenshaw Raj SethurajuChris MendezMariame Kaba  Justice in America Episode 20: Mariame Kaba and Prison Abolition  Mia MingusAngela DavisFania DavisDean SpadeMimi KimShira Hassan Erricka BridgefordAmanda Lawson Readings & Resources: Check out the following readings and resources named by Dorothy and Conner while they spoke.  Intersectional Suicide Prevention (Resource Cards, Facilitation Guide, and Handouts) by Dorothy JiangThe Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture From Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001The Rise (and Stall) of the Boba Generation by Jenny G. ZhangPods and Pod Mapping Worksheet by Mia Mingus  Small Seeds by Mia MingusCare Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaPleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree BrownBeyond Survival edited by Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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    1 hr and 25 mins
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