How feminism taught me to defund the police and the military

Sponsored by the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts Office and co-sponsored by the Gender Studies Department.

This talk will examine the shared strategies of resistance deployed by feminists seeking to end militarism and dismantle the prison industrial complex. Using participatory action research from her involvement with Women In Black, Code Pink, and Winona Community Not Cages, Mary Jo Klinker will offer analysis of how feminist interventions against imperialist violence engage methods that mirror efforts to abolish the school-to-prison pipeline.

Professor Mary Jo Klinker received her PhD from Washington State University in American Studies. Her research focuses on the relation of queer activism and theory to feminist antimilitarist organizing and anti-imperialist critique.

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