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“Strategies for an Abolitionist Future” brings together the scholar-activists Dennis Childs, Juliet Hooker, Dylan Rodriguez and Dean Spade for a roundtable conversation about Black Lives Matter, abolitionism, neoliberal capitalism, and the varied scales of activism, ranging from mutual aid and protest to nonprofit work and more institutionally-bound modes of engagement.

Moderated by David Luis-Brown.

Image caption: Thinh Nguyen, “Revolutionary Relic,” 2020, Repurposed pitchfork, skeletal spine, 57 x 7 inches. Image courtesy of the artist. © Thinh Nguyen. CGU MFA.

Speakers

Dean Spade

Associate Professor at Seattle University

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Juliet Hooker

Professor of Political Science at Brown University

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Dennis Childs

Associate Professor of African American Literature and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego

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Dylan Rodríguez

Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at University of California, Riverside

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