#SayHerName with Busboys and Poets Books
Date and Time
Jun 11, 2018 6:30 pm
Location
Brookland
625 Monroe St NE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20017
Jun 11, 2018 6:30 pm
Brookland
As part of the national #SayHerName week of action to end violence against all Black women and girls June 11-16th, join Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color author Andrea J. Ritchie and members of the BYP100 D.C. chapter at Busboys & Poets Brookland for a timely discussion of profiling, policing, and mass incarceration of Black women, girls, trans and gender nonconforming people. This conversation will place the recent series of incidents reflecting the policing of the presence of Black women and girls in public spaces, including the arrest of #ChikesiaClemons and the recent killing of #DecynthiaClements, in a broader historical and present day context, and expand definitions of police and gender based violence to include sexual violence by police officers, policing and punishment of pregnant people and parents, and discriminatory and punitive responses to domestic violence and women in crisis. It will highlight BYP100 DC's involvement in the local Decriminalization NOW! campaign, and the long history of resistance focused on Black women's experiences of policing, culminating in #BlackLivesMatter, #SayHerName and two National Days of Action to end State Violence Against Black Women, Girls, and Femmes, and challenge participants to radically re-envision movements for police accountability, challenges to mass incarceration, and our visions of safety, and the means we go about to achieving them.
Andrea Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant whose research, organizing, litigation and advocacy has focused on profiling, policing, and mass incarceration of women and LGBTQ people of color for over two decades. She is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, and co-author of Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women and Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, and was a 2014 Senior Soros Justice Fellow. She is currently Researcher in Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and Criminalization at the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
