“I felt that your judgment was wrong. I felt like you have no idea what I’ve been through and it’s also my job to tell you. I just feel it’s different, but you have a black cape and I am a Black mother.” – A Black mother, to the white male judge who took away … Read more
This article is based on remarks delivered at Invisible No More in November 2017 by CUNY law professor Chaumtoli Huq. These stories, including of Huq’s experience of brutality at the hands of the New York City Police Department and of two young Muslim women profiled, detained, and, in one case, deported post-9/11 on suspicion of … Read more
Kassandra Frederique, the Drug Policy Alliance’s New York State Director, outlines the ways in which gender has been central to the war on drugs throughout history in this clip from the Invisible No More conference Criminalizing Webs panel.
These posters were created in response to a call issued by Project Nia, founded by BCRW Researcher-in-Residence Mariame Kaba, who brought together a group of (mostly) Chicago artists to create restorative justice posters. These stunning posters feature “restorative questions,” drawn from the work of Margaret Thorsborne. All posters are available for public download here.
This piece is part of a larger choreopoem, to use Ntozake Shange’s term, that I write as a Black queer organizer and survivor of the medical industrial complex. The term “medical industrial complex” was first defined by Barbara Ehrenreich in 1971 and is the value of profit over people’s health and well-being. Since then, the … Read more
LaLa Holston-Zanell of the ACLU LGBT HIV Project issues an urgent call to action around policing, violence and structural exclusion targeting trans women of color in this clip from the Invisible No More conference Policing Sex and Gender panel.
Gabriel Arkles of the ACLU LGBT HIV Project traces law enforcement’s historical and present day enforcement of the gender binary in this clip from the Invisible No More conference Policing Sex and Gender panel.
Mariame Kaba discusses the work of the Young Women’s Action Team in Rogers Park documenting and organizing around the violence they experienced in their community and from police in this clip from the Invisible No More conference Police Responses to Violence panel.
I have seen it posted and reposted. Always the same still:officer leaning with his handsagainst the roof of her car, legsspread, head tilted to unleashhis ire into her cracked window.I too have been bitten by the barkof a white man’s voice. I’ve dared someone to touch me, sworn on my lifeFelt the phrase “don’t make … Read more
Editors’ note: Barnard alumna Meryleen Mena is the sole contributor to this issue who did not speak at Invisible No More in November 2017. We accepted this unsolicited submission following the March 2018 assassination of Black Brazilian Lesbian feminist organizer and Rio de Janeiro city councilmember Marielle Franco, which has since been tied to members … Read more
