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SUMMARY: “When Things Fall Apart: Conflict\, Crisis\, & Collective Healing 
 in Activist Movements” with Kai Cheng Thom
DESCRIPTION: The Social Justice Institute Graduate Student Association Pres
 ents: Kai Cheng Thom “When Things Fall Apart: Conflict\, Crisis\, & Collect
 ive Healing in Activist Movements” WHEN & WHERE March 21\, 5:00-6:30pm Gree
 n Collage\, The University of British Columbia All events are free and open
  to the public. In this time of intense global crisis\, political unrest\, 
 and […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p style="text-align: center\;"><span style="
 font-size: 20px\;"><sub><span class="s1">The Social Justice Institute<br />
 </span></sub>Graduate Student Association Presents:</span></p><h2 style="te
 xt-align: center\;"><span style="color: #800000\;"><strong>Kai Cheng Thom</
 strong></span></h2><p><img class=" wp-image-26519 aligncenter" src="https:/
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 n: center\;"><span style="font-size: 24px\; color: #993300\;"><span style="
 color: #993300\;"><span style="font-size: 20px\;"><strong>"When Things Fall
  Apart: Conflict\, Crisis\, & Collective Healing in Activist Movements"</st
 rong></span></span></span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: center\;"><strong
 >WHEN & WHERE<br /></strong>March 21\, 5:00-6:30pm<strong><br /></strong>Gr
 een Collage\, The University of British Columbia</p><p style="text-align: c
 enter\;"><span style="color: #800000\;"><strong><sup>All events are free an
 d open to the public.</sup></strong></span></p><p>In this time of intense g
 lobal crisis\, political unrest\, and social polarization\, for many activi
 sts and progressives\, the greatest devastation has come from within our ow
 n communities: Moments in which our shared values have seemed to fail us. C
 onflicts that tear our relationships apart. The collapse of social networks
  that we relied upon to give us strength and meaning. In the midst of betra
 yal and despair\, what can we do? How can Transformative Justice and the po
 litics of love lead us back into right relationship with ourselves\, others
 \, and the work of making change? Join Kai Cheng Thom\, mediator and healer
 \, for an embodied dialogue on choosing love at the end of the world.</p><d
 iv></div><hr /><div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnl
 e">UBC’s Social Justice Institute’s Graduate Student Association invites yo
 u to a panel series on Abolition and Transformative Justice. This series wa
 s created to engage with the broader UBC community around anti-Black racism
  following recent instances of racial profiling on campus\, and to consider
  how UBC must divest from policing and surveillance practices that are root
 ed in systemic racism. We hope that through this free speaker panel\, readi
 ng group\, and creative dialogue series\, we can invite UBC students and fa
 culty as well as communities from so-called Vancouver to learn about Abolit
 ion and bring these conversations into our communities so that we can end r
 acial profiling on campus for good.</div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcuk
 yx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle">The event series is free and intends to help the UB
 C community-at-large gain tools to combat anti-Black racism on campus as we
  reflect on Canada’s histories of colonialism\, surveillance\, policing\, a
 nd incarceration.</div></div><div></div><div><strong>Accessibility</strong>
 : ASL interpretation has been booked for this online event\, and a transcri
 pt can be made available. Please email ubcsocialjusticegsa@gmail.com for mo
 re info</div><hr /><div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5u
 ql o9v6fnle">Kai Cheng Thom is a writer\, performance artist\, and communit
 y healer in Toronto. She is the author of the novel Fierce Femmes and Notor
 ious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir Metonymy Press)\, t
 he poetry collection a place called No Homeland (an American Library Associ
 ation Stonewall Honor Book in 2018)\, and the children's picture book From 
 the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea\, illustrated by Kai Yun Ching 
 and Wai-Yant Li. Her latest book is the essay collection I Hope We Choose L
 ove: A Trans Girl's Notes at the End of the World (an American Library Asso
 ciation Stonewall Honor Book in 2020). Kai Cheng won the Writers' Trust of 
 Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers in 2017.</div><div>
 </div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle"></div>
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