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From Limited and Formal Rights to Abolitionism: Against the Police, Prisons and Carceral Injustice

Thursday, Oct. 17, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

J-2008, St. John's College

Gary Kinsman will be giving a lunch-time talk in the School of Social Work on October 17, 2024, titled “From Limited and Formal Rights to Abolitionism: Against the Police, Prisons, and Carceral Injustice.”

This talk is dedicated to the Palestinian people and the people of Lebanon facing genocidal attack.

This is an in-person only event where masking will be mandatory. Disposable masks will be provided.

Gary Kinsman is a longtime queer liberation and anti-racist, anti-capitalist activist currently involved with Queers4Palestine Toronto, Abolitionist Pride and Scholar Strike Canada. In the early 1990s he taught in Sociology at Memorial and was involved in Gays and Lesbians Together (GALT) and the Newfoundland AIDS Association. He is the author of The Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles and co-author of  The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation.

 

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Event Listing 2024-10-17 12:30:00 2024-10-17 13:30:00 America/St_Johns From Limited and Formal Rights to Abolitionism: Against the Police, Prisons and Carceral Injustice Gary Kinsman will be giving a lunch-time talk in the School of Social Work on October 17, 2024, titled “From Limited and Formal Rights to Abolitionism: Against the Police, Prisons, and Carceral Injustice.” This talk is dedicated to the Palestinian people and the people of Lebanon facing genocidal attack. This is an in-person only event where masking will be mandatory. Disposable masks will be provided. Gary Kinsman is a longtime queer liberation and anti-racist, anti-capitalist activist currently involved with Queers4Palestine Toronto, Abolitionist Pride and Scholar Strike Canada. In the early 1990s he taught in Sociology at Memorial and was involved in Gays and Lesbians Together (GALT) and the Newfoundland AIDS Association. He is the author of The Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles and co-author of  The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation.   J-2008, St. John's College School of Social Work