Revolutionary Mothering & Queer Survival w/ Alexis Pauline Gumbs

REVOLUTIONARY MOTHERING & QUEER SURVIVAL: A REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT LEGAL REALITIES Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs followed by a panel discussion with: Carma Corcoran Maru Mora-Villalpando Priya Rai Lucia Leandro Gimeno Victoria Law Learn about the legal system's relationship to family through the lens of incarceration, race, and queerness. Join activists working at the intersections locally and nationally for a discussion on critical sites of reproductive injustice and community-generated strategies for survival, healing, justice and transformation. UW SCHOOL OF LAW, GATES HALL, ROOM 138 FREE, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. RECEPTION TO FOLLOW. The University of Washington is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Please direct message with any questions or comments and we will respond as soon as possible. Thank you. More information about the speakers: Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist, and prayer poet priestess. She has a Ph.D. in English, African and African-American Studies and Women and Gender Studies from Duke University. She is the provost of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines, author of Spill: Fugitive Scenes, a visual mixed-media artist, educator, activist, and a widely published theorist, essayist, and poet. Carma Corcoran (Chippewa-Cree) is the Indian Law Program Coordinator at Lewis and Clark Law School, the former Board Chair of Red Lodge Transition Services, and is completing her PhD writing on the issue of Native American Women and Incarceration. Maru Mora-Villalpando is a community organizer with SURGE Reproductive Justice and Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) Resistance. Priya Rai is an advocate and community organizer with API Chaya. Lucia Leandro Gimeno is the director of the QTPOC Birthwerq Project. Victoria Law is a journalist and author of works including Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women. This Gates Public Service Law Speakers Series event is co-sponsored by: UW Q Center GPSS Diversity Funds GPSS Special Allocations ASUW The Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity UW Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies UW Law, Societies, and Justice