These events are part of the Department of Women & Gender Studies’ Feminist Abolitionist Futures series, which will offer three semesters of programming dedicated to exploring abolition as both a vision and a set of practices.
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
A talk by Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe
About the Speaker: Liat Ben-Moshe is an interdisciplinary scholar-activist working at the intersection of disability/madness, incarceration/decarceration and abolition. She is the author of Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (University of Minnesota Press 2020) and co-editor (with Allison Carey and Chris Chapman) of Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (Palgrave 2014). Dr. Ben-Moshe is an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For more: https://www.liatbenmoshe.com/
This event will also be broadcast as a webinar. To attend virtually click here https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/91009887576
Abolition, Feminism, and Disability: A One Read Event
- Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition by Liat Ben-Moshe (specifically the introduction, pgs. 1-36)
- Abolition. Feminism. Now. By Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie (specifically chapter 1 “Abolition,” pgs. 26-49)