As a scholar activist, I work to bring the principles of Black feminist abolition to question of gender violence, by working against criminalization and carcerality in all of it's forms.
Beth E. Richie is the Inaugural Presidential Humanaties and Social Science Chair and LAS Distinguished Professor of Black Studies, Criminology, Law and Justice and Gender and Women’s Studies at, t The University of Illinois at Chicago. The emphasis of her scholarly and activist work has been on the ways that race/ethnicity and social position affect women's experience of violence and incarceration, focusing on the experiences of Black women and queer and trans people other people who experience state and intimate violence. Richie is co-editor of Abolition. Feminism. Now. with Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent and Erica Meiners and author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America’s Prison Nation and Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Black Battered Women. Her other academic work and publications in the popular press expose the ways that carceral ideology and state violence feed mass criminalization. Richie is a member of the Prison and Neighbohood Arts Project and Love and Protect and other activist organizations that focus on teaching in prisons and jails while at the same time working on freedom campaigns. She was awarded an honorary Law Degree from CUNY Law School and serves as a Senior Advisor to the NFL on their anti-violence program.
In this remarkable collaborative work, leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie surface the often unrecognized genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist, grassroots, and women-of-color-led feminist movements, struggles, and organizations that have helped to define abolition and feminism in the twenty-first century.
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Beth E. Richie shows that the threat of violence to Black women has never been more serious, demonstrating how conservative legal, social, political and economic policies have impactedactivism in the U.S.-based movement to end violence against women.
partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures, Marguerite Casey Foundation is hosting a number of book events this year, bringing leading scholars, writers, researchers and activists into conversation with each other and our President & CEO Dr. Carmen Rojas.
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