<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif"><a href="https://sexualitystudies.osu.edu/events/nov-27-2017-panel-resisting-repression" target="_blank">Resisting Repression: State And Non-State Attacks Against People Power</a></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_843435482372320367gmail-m_-5329624451289452174m_-7312016110244030370gmail-aBn"><span class="m_843435482372320367gmail-m_-5329624451289452174m_-7312016110244030370gmail-aQJ"><font face="times new roman, serif">Monday Nov. 27 5:30-7:30 p.m.</font></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">OSU African American and African Studies Extension Center</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">@<a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=905+Mount+Vernon+Ave.,+Columbus,+OH+43203&entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank">905 Mount Vernon Ave., Columbus, OH 43203</a> (off-campus)</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For directions to location:
</span></font><a href="https://aaascec.osu.edu/about-us/facilities" target="_blank">https://aaascec.osu.edu/about-<wbr>us/facilities</a></font></p></div><font face="times new roman, serif"><div><br></div>Join with Columbus community members to talk about safety for<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>ourselves, for our community organizations<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>and for our movements. As day-to-day life has been criminalized and attacked, so to movements for community safety and power have been under attack, from surveillance to disruption and other<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>interventions, including murder. This panel and community discussion<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>will focus on how we can prepare for the tactics that have been and are deployed against people power, from harassing investigation methods to grand jury subpoenas and more. Sparked by the<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>recently publicized Domestic Terrorism<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>report on the FBI's targeting of "Black Identity Extremist[s]"-- this conversation will move community to take seriously the impact this targeting has<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>already had (and will now have in even more intensified ways) on Black racial justice organizers and communities and all communities struggling against different<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>kinds of oppression.<br><br>Light snacks and refreshments<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>will be<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>provided.<br><br><u>PANELISTS:</u><br><b>James Hayes,<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>Momentum</b><br>James Hayes<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>(pronouns he/him) is a trainer with Momentum.<br><br><b>Amna Akbar, Moritz College of Law</b><br>Amna Akbar<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>(pronouns she/her)<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>is Assistant Professor of Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University.<br><b><br>Uli Cruz, Immigrant Alliance Ohio</b><br>Uli Cruz<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>(pronouns he/him) started<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>his<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>activist path 20 years ago with the aftermath of<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> the </div>bracero program and now works with IM ALL OHIO focusing on daca and other immigrant issues in Ohio.<br><br><b>danielle west, Hummingbird Consultants</b><br>danielle west<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>(pronouns: she/her or they/them)<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>is a cultural worker, educator and community organizer. From a suburb south of Dayton, OH, danni is a mixed-class queer white woman of trans experience.<br><b><br>Wriply Bennet, #BlackPride4<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>& BQIC: Black Queer Intersectional Columbus<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>(moderator)</b><br>Wriply Marie Bennet<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>(pronouns: she/her)<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>is an artist, illustrator, actor, writer and singer born and raised in Ohio. She uses her art to uplift her sisters in the black lives/ black transgender lives movement. Wriply’s work expresses the power, strength, and resilience that trans women of color<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>have to persevere, and the grace and beauty of her culture.<br><br><u>CO-SPONSORS:</u><br>Trans/Queer Racial Justice and Transformation<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>Network of the OSU Sexuality Studies Program<br>OSU African American and African Studies Community Extension Center & Department<br>BQIC: Black Queer Intersectional Columbus<br>SURJ: Showing Up For Racial Justice<br>OSU Asian American Studies Program</font><div><font face="times new roman, serif">Ohio Interfaith Immigrant<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> and </div></font><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">Migrant Justice Coalition </span></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">SHADES at OSU<br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">If you have any questions, please contact <a href="mailto:sexualitystudies@osu.edu" target="_blank">sexualitystudies@osu.<wbr>edu</a>.</div><br><br><b>This event is free and open to the public</b></font><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_843435482372320367gmail-m_-5329624451289452174m_-7312016110244030370gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Toni Calbert<div>Ph.D Candidate</div><div>English Department</div><div>The Ohio State University</div><div><a href="mailto:calbert.5@osu.edu" target="_blank">calbert.5@osu.edu</a></div></div></div>
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