https://padlet.com/kraymondsmith1/wnwufmr4dc37ao1e This is a "canvas" padlet. Post by double-clicking. Match the color of your post to that of the question you respond to. Link to other posts and move your post around the page to organize the discussion. Some of the questions may not be immediately visible, so be sure to scroll right to left and up and down. Minimum of two thoughtful posts, aim for a mixture of thoughtfulness and conciseness, please. en-us 2022-04-05 18:21:25 UTC 2022-04-07 17:44:07 UTC hello@padlet.com kraymondsmith1 https://padlet.com/kraymondsmith1/wnwufmr4dc37ao1e/wish/2131555515 Activism has changed over the years.  Do you see any current activism against the carceral state?  How is current activism different from and similar to past activism?]]> 2022-04-05 22:45:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kraymondsmith1/wnwufmr4dc37ao1e/wish/2131555515 kraymondsmith1 https://padlet.com/kraymondsmith1/wnwufmr4dc37ao1e/wish/2131556075 2022-04-05 22:46:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kraymondsmith1/wnwufmr4dc37ao1e/wish/2131556075 kraymondsmith1 https://padlet.com/kraymondsmith1/wnwufmr4dc37ao1e/wish/2131560460 "He urged the workshop attendees to recognize the possibilities of men's expanded participation in antirape organizing, with the caveat that 'women be in the majority of any decision-making process'" (148).

Do you think that discussions with men about antirape organizations would have been beneficial at the time? Do you think these discussions would be any different today?]]> 2022-04-05 22:51:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kraymondsmith1/wnwufmr4dc37ao1e/wish/2131560460 kraymondsmith1 https://padlet.com/kraymondsmith1/wnwufmr4dc37ao1e/wish/2133751606 2022-04-07 02:00:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kraymondsmith1/wnwufmr4dc37ao1e/wish/2133751606 sydneystewart2 https://padlet.com/kraymondsmith1/wnwufmr4dc37ao1e/wish/2134631056 In Chapter 4, I was interested in the section about the Third World Women and Violence conference since "participants brought organizing experience on a myriad of issues including rape and battering, indigenous sovereignty rights, gentrification, health and welfare rights, prison conditions, police brutality, state repression of activists, nuclear militarism, reproductive freedom, and Pan-African solidarity. The slate of workshops and panel discussions manifested the coordinators’ desire to 'connect the dots' between multiple forms of violence, scaling from the interpersonal to the imperial" (146). At this conference, we see a true intersectional approach to dealing with issues of violence towards women and the conversations about violence were clearly broadening in their scope to try to encompass more than the white female victim. 

Particularly interesting was the "Working with Men Committing Violence Workshop" Kyra mentioned in the question above, and we see how this black-prisoner led workshop showed a shift in thinking towards, perhaps, giving men a chance at reeducation instead of incarceration. The idea of reeducation, to me, signifies that rape is a cultural issue that is learned to a certain extent, so if we can unpack those engrained ideas of power, then perhaps men can be rehabilitated. In my gender violence class, we've talked similarly about reeducating men who batter women now, and I have had a really difficult time buying into these ideas because I think if you are so harmful, you should be punished (conversely, though, I also understand how terrible punitive punishment can be with all its flaws). I think that including men would've been beneficial at the time because it's not just violence against women, rather the issue can also be framed as an issue of men committing violence towards women. Involving men in the conversation is critical since without including them, conversations of rape will largely be limited to women being on the "defense" rather than unpacking why men are violent.]]> 2022-04-07 13:51:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kraymondsmith1/wnwufmr4dc37ao1e/wish/2134631056 sydneystewart2 https://padlet.com/kraymondsmith1/wnwufmr4dc37ao1e/wish/2134641368 I think that organizing has certainly changed over time, and in the epilogue we see an example on page 161: "At the INCITE! conference in Chicago, the seeds were planted for a new national organizing formation, Survived and Punished, that would coalesce existing defense campaigns in order 'to build a larger movement to support survivors and abolish gender violence, policing, prisons, and deportations.'" (161). Here we see the shift towards more survivor-centric and ensure that there's a more margin to center approach in activism (ie ensuring that those who are the most marginalized and most at risk are considered when building policy, since then it will surely help the white cis-hetero woman who is usually at the center of policy work). Over time as we saw broadly in these chapters, advocacy became more expansive in terms of how we were having conversations about rape and who was included (as the subject or the participant).]]> 2022-04-07 13:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kraymondsmith1/wnwufmr4dc37ao1e/wish/2134641368