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These events are part of the Department of Women & Gender Studies’ Feminist Abolitionist Futures series, which will offer three semesters of programming dedicated to exploring abolition as both a vision and a set of practices.

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition

A talk by Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe

Tuesday, April 18th 5pm��

Center for British and Irish Studies, 5th floor��Norlin Library

and via Zoom

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Recent scholarship and activism paint a troubling picture of mass incarceration. But disability and madness and their histories of oppression and resistance are largely missing from this analysis. For example- the erasure of the most massive exodus of people from carceral spaces in the U.S., deinstitutionalization. In contrast, Dr. Ben-Moshe shows how disability/mad knowledges and histories should inform analysis of the abolition of prisons, jails, psychiatric hospitals and disability residential institutions for the liberation of us all.

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�Ǹ�Թ� the Speaker: Liat Ben-Moshe is an interdisciplinary scholar-activist working at the intersection of disability/madness, incarceration/decarceration and abolition. She is the author of��Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (University of Minnesota Press 2020) and co-editor (with Allison Carey and Chris Chapman) of��Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada��(Palgrave 2014). Dr. Ben-Moshe is an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For more:��

This event will also be broadcast as a webinar. To attend virtually click here��

The �Ǹ�Թ� is committed to providing equal access to individuals with disabilities.��Individuals who require accommodation for either event should contact wgst@colorado.edu��at least two weeks in advance of the event so that the appropriate arrangements can be made.