G+JI Annual Report 2020-2021

Gynecological Procedures and Other Gendered
Forced
in Detention
Abuses
September 2020, nonconsensual sterilizations and abuses on
In
women were reported by a whistleblower, Dawn Woolen, a
immigrant
nurse in Irwin federal immigration detention center in Georgia.
long-time
such, this panel discussion gave an overview of patterns of gendered
As
This discussion was moderated by Denise Brennan, G JI Co-
issue.
and Professor of Anthropology, Georgetown University. The
Director
included Alejandra Pablos, Reproductive Justice
panelists
Deportation Defense Campaign; Azadeh
Organizer/Storyteller,
Legal and Advocacy Director, Project South; Silky Shah,
Shahshahani,
Director, Detention Watch Network.
Executive
by the Prisons and Justice Initiative and the Human Rights
Co-sponsored
Institute.
Disability, Deinstitutionalization & Prison
Decarcerating
Abolition
University Press, 2020). She is an activist/scholar who has
(Minnesota
and published on such topics as deinstitutionalization and
worked
prison abolition; disability, anti-capitalism and queerness;
incarceration;
disability/madness and empire; inclusive pedagogy and disability in
race,
This event was very successful, it received 335 RSVP
Israel/Palestine.
235 attendees.
and
event was co-presented by the Disability Studies Program, the
This
and Gender Studies Program, the Prisons and Justice Initiative,
Women’s
African American Studies Department, the Medical Humanities
the
and the Human Rights Institute.
Initiative
Timely Discussions
Focusing on Detention and Abolition
Feminism
November 9, 2020
practices taking place in ICE detention centers as well as shed
violence
on how activists and advocacy groups are fighting to address the
light
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April 12, 2021
Ben-Moshe, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice at
Liat
University of Illinois at Chicago discussed her recently published book,
the
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
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