Author: mxthemme
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Transcript and video of Strawberry Hampton’s speech at the 2020 Chicago Reclaim Pride March
Strawberry Hampton is an incarcerated Black transgender woman in Illinois. For my TRANS BEHIND BARS column at Shadowproof, I reported on her experience fighting sexual violence behind bars, which she explained was retaliation for speaking up against the Illinois Department of Corrections. Read more about her story here. You can materially support sister Strawberry by…
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Transcript of “TRANS ABOLITIONIST SERIES: Decarceration, Re-Entry, and Housing”
This is the first talk of the TRANS ABOLITIONIST SERIES, an online series of Facebook livestream talks dedicated to discussing prison and police abolition from a transgender perspective. In this installment, I talked to community organizer Sterling Johnson about the need for accessible housing and other re-entry services for previously incarcerated gender variant people. You…
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Transcript of “TALK: Confronting White Supremacy and Class in Italian-American Communities: South Philadelphia, Then and Now”
In response to the white supremacist demonstrations in defense of the Columbus statue at Marconi Plaza, a group of Italian-American leftist comrades (including myself) came together to discuss political education. Our goal was to address recent events (especially as they related to the larger movement to abolish the police) and talk about local Italian-American history…