Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

During this event, lawyer, activist, and author Dean Spade and Rochester community organizers (listed below) will discuss creating and sustaining communities of care during Covid-19 and beyond. Mutual aid is a key part of building a world in which we keep each other safe, a world in which we work collectively to meet each other’s needs. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change-induced storms, fires, floods, and droughts, the crisis of racist policing and mass inca...rceration, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality, more and more people are building grassroots projects to help meet each other's basic needs. Our guests will discuss ways in which individuals and groups do and can work to support and protect one other during this crisis and how we can build long-term, liberatory and resilient communities beyond this moment. See more

Lecture followed by Q&A with Dr. Fischel and audience members. Talk abstract: In the past several years, many states have enacted expansive criminal animal sexual abuse laws. Focusing on legislative reform in Louisiana, Fischel argues that these laws are not just ineffective but cruel, authorizing the abuse they purport to deter. The laws are premised on an identitarian model of sexuality that wrongly sources suffering to predation and malevolence rather than to political economy. Like according gay rights to cows, codifying their injuries as "sexual abuse" is absurd, anthropomorphic, and regressive.

A virtual Reading by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, 2020 Kafka Prize Recipient from her winning novel The Revisioners (2019). The reading will be followed by a Q&A session with the author, audience, and the Kafka Prize Committee. From the committee: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s novel, The Revisioners, is masterful by any metric. Its themes are fully American, shining a light on the enduring effects of racism and the complicated and interconnected aspects of identity, family, and h...istory. The novel is centered on the depths of women’s lives, exploring harm and healing, power and bondage, and the strength to persist. Sexton’s writing is precise and stunning, and while there is an economy of language, the characters and their lives are fully and beautifully rendered. The Revisioners tells the story of Josephine, a farm-owning matriarch who was enslaved as a child, and the story of her great-great-great-granddaughter, Ava, a single mother who cares for her white grandmother. Spanning more than 150 years, this novel brings the past and the present together by connecting these women, their challenges, and their strength. It is both a compelling story and a work of art.

Via Free The People Roc: DANIEL’S DAY. THIS TUESDAY 3.23. NO SCHOOL. NO WORK. We join the Prude family in calling for a day of action and remembrance on the one year anniversary of Daniel Prude’s murder by the RPD. Call out of work, walk out of class, and join us in the streets to demand justice for Daniel Prude! ... 8am - Rally at Parcel 5 5pm - Celebration of Life at 72 Child St. Stay tuned for updates throughout the day. . We also encourage folx across the country to join us in #solidarity for #DANIELSDAY #noschoolnowork #justicefordanielprude #celebrationoflife #nojusticenopeace" See more

Future Focus: Jalil Muntaqim conversation with UR Abolition Coalition and guests

Roc Folx- join us. Grateful to be following our extraordinary students' lead in pulling this together.

ROC folx--great stuff here, join us next Fri. Honored to be following our students' lead in this event about imagined anti-carceral futures.

The UR Abolition Coalition will be moderating a conversation with Jalil Muntaqim next Friday! Registration details on event page.

We do not yet know the full story of women’s #suffrage. Black women activists operated in complicated networks that stretched from community to community, from city to city, and from state to state. Join us on Monday, October 5 at 7:30 pm for a free presentation and panel discussion on the strategies #Blackwomen used to gain the right to #vote and about the networks they created to facilitate this achievement. This event is presented by #540WMain and sponsored by Susan B. A...nthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Rochester. For registration and more information on the presenter and panelists, visit the event page. [Image Description: A Black women's club that was part of the Lifting all We Climb motto in 1896 from the National Women’s History Museum]