Скачать или смотреть Session 6: Abolition feminism & Decriminalizing Sex Work (Build Abolition 101 at CCSF)

In tonight's session we are joined by tanea lunsford lynx who discusses intersectionality in connection to abolition; Brooke Lober who discusses abolition feminism and the harm reduction work St James Infirmary does; Trời-Tim Trần who discusses their experiences in being transfeminine and fighting for disability justice, alongside Alex Makulit who discusses decriminalizing sex work through the US PROStitutes Collective.

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5:28 - 8:47 Collective Care message from Tiera and Kari
10:40 tanea lunsford lynx (flexible pronouns) - CCSF African American Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Labor & Community Studies instructor goes over intersectionality.
Slideshow: https://tinyurl.com/abol101tanea
34:16 - 1:01:40 Brooke Lober (she/they) - Harm Reduction director of St James Infirmary talks about abolition feminism and the sex worker movement.
1:19:42- 1:26:27 - Brooke discusses harm reduction
Slide show: https://tinyurl.com/abol101brooke
1:04:07 - 1:18:24 Alex Makulit (they/them/siya) talks about the importance of decriminalizing sex work.
1:33:13 "In your wildest dreams, how do you imagine us building an abolitionist world, and how does this vision overlap with CCSF?"


**tanea lunsford lynx**
tanea lunsford lynx is a writer, abolitionist, and fourth generation Black San Franciscan on both sides. tanea is a proud alum of Voices of Our Nation (VONA) and the Lambda Literary Retreat. In 2018 she co-curated 'Still Here VI: Existence as Resistance', a performance featuring queer Black San Franciscans as a part of the National Queer Arts Festival. Tanea has been awarded an individual artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission as well as residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, The San Francisco Public Library (in collaboration with RADAR), Mesa Refuge, the Rising Voices Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center, Ox-Bow, the Erica Landis Scholarship at Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Grace Paley Fellowship at Under the Volcano. In 2018 her work was published in Foglifter, the Lambda Literary Anthology, and in "Nothing to Lose But Our Chains: Black Voices on Activism, Resistance, and Love".


*Alex Makulit*
Alex (they/them/shiya) or Kweeta came from Filipino and Ashekenzi/Sephardi Jewish heritage and both their parents are immigrants. They are a formerly incarcerated and convicted person, and a loved one of current and former captives of CDCR. They identify as queer, pansexual, gender fluid, many-gendered and former full-service sex worker and survivor of violence. They were born and raised in San Francisco Ohlone land but live now Huichin land in Oakland. They're a lifetime CCSF student, and current Project SURVIVE peer educator, and most of their time is spend organizing for local and national sex worker rights, decriminalization of sex work and against poverty with the US PROStitutes Collective and Global Women's Strike, they're a former organizer for all of us or none, Legal Services for Prisoner's with Children. They are a farmer and herbalist in training focusing on ancestral medicine of the Philippines hoping to connect people to reindigenize their relationship to food and the lands.

**Trời-Tim Trần**
Trời-Tim Trần (she/they/anh pronouns) is a disabled, chronically ill, transfeminine, Việt student and organizer, currently studying Ethnic Studies. Having done some work around mutual aid, youth organizing, and reentry support, they seek to deeply root in transformative justice, disability justice, prison abolition, and ending transmisogynoir.


**Brooke Lober**
Brooke Lober is the Director of Harm Reduction at the St. James Infirmary, an occupational clinic for sex workers, and teaches classes in Women’s and Gender Studies at Sonoma State University. Brooke has been an activist for more than a decade in Jewish/feminist/queer sectors of the Palestine solidarity movement. For the last 5 years, Brooke has worked closely with members of anti-imperialist feminist organizations that were well-known in the Bay Area in the 1980s and 90s. Having completed a set of oral histories of this era, Brooke is now co-editing a volume of writing about the group Out of Control: Lesbian Committee to Free Women Political Prisoners, for the lesbian journal Sinister Wisdom. Brooke is a longtime abolitionist activist, member of Abolition Collective, and co-editor of two forthcoming volumes of writing on abolition feminisms. Brooke’s writing has been published in Feminist Formations, Women’s Studies, The Journal of Lesbian Studies, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, and on numerous websites of radical culture.