Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition with Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe
You are invited to Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition with Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe
When: Thursday, April 1, 2021 5–6:30 pm MST Arizona
Please register here: https://asu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GAVtfrPvSkmjHEc72U7eIg
Liat Ben-Moshe is an activist, scholar, educator and researcher working at the intersection of incarceration, decarceration, abolition and disability and madness. Her work aims to expand what counts as incarceration to include all carceral locales (including residential institutions for people with intellectual disabilities, psych facilities and prisons and jails) and to connect deinstitutionalization, disability and mad movements to prison abolition activism through an intersectional lens. Dr. Liat Ben Moshe is an assistant professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with a PhD in sociology (2011) with concentrations in women and gender studies and disability studies from Syracuse University.
Using lived experience, history and culture, Dr. Ben-Moshe provides a critical analysis of our failing systems of incarceration while creating a radical new path that liberates us from the carceral, institutional mindset at all levels. We dedicate this first of what we hope will become an ongoing lecture series to all those who have fought for and continue to fight for social justice. We envision a world that is inclusive of all body-minds and based upon the principles of radical love and collective care. Please join us with open hearts and minds at the book presentation and workshop to be facilitated by Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe.