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UBC’s Social Justice Institute’s Graduate Student Associ ation invites you to a panel series on Abolition and Transformative Justice . This series was created to engage with the broader UBC community around a nti-Black racism following recent instances of racial profiling on campus\, and to consider how UBC must divest from policing and surveillance practic es that are rooted in systemic racism. We hope that through this free speak er panel\, reading group\, and creative dialogue series\, we can invite UBC students and faculty as well as communities from so-called Vancouver to le arn about Abolition and bring these conversations into our communities so t hat we can end racial profiling on campus for good.

Dr. Dylan Rodrigu ez is a teacher\, scholar\, and activist. He was named to the inau gural class of Freedom Scholars in 2020 and is Past President of the Americ an Studies Association (2020-2021). He has worked as a Professor at the Uni versity of California\, Riverside since 2001
Dylan is the author of th ree books\, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Lo gic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press\, 2021). He is a founding member of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association and Critical Resistance\, a leading carceral abolitionist organization. He is part of the Abolition Collective and Scholars for Social Justice\, and continuously works in and alongside various radical movements and collectives.
Leah Lakshmi Piep zna-Samarasinha (she/they) is a nonbinary femme disabled writer and disabil ity and transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lan kan\, Irish and Galician Romani ascent. They are the author or co-editor of nine books\, including (with Ejeris Dixon) Beyond Survival\; Strategies an d Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement\, Tonguebreaker\, Care W ork: Dreaming Disability Justice\, and Bodymap. A Lambda Award winner who h as been shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle five times\, they are the 2 020 Jean Cordova Award winner “honoring a lifetime of work documenting the complexities of queer experience” and are a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow. Raised in rustbelt central Massachusetts and shaped by T'karonto and Oakla nd\, they currently make home in South Seattle\, Duwamish territories. brownstargirl.org

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they) is a nonbinary femme disabled writer and disability and transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan\, Ir ish and Galician Romani ascent. They are the author or co-editor of nine bo oks\, including (with Ejeris Dixon) Beyond Survival\; Strategies and St ories from the Transformative Justice Movement\, Tonguebreaker\, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice\, and Bodymap. A Lambda Award wi nner who has been shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle five times\, they are the 2020 Jean Cordova Award winner “honoring a lifetime of work docume nting the complexities of queer experience” and are a 2020 Disability Futu res Fellow. Raised in rustbelt central Massachusetts and shaped by T'karont o and Oakland\, they currently make home in South Seattle\, Duwamish terri tories. brownstargirl.org

Dylan Rodriguez & Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha