Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guantanamo weaves together artwork, poetry, legal testimony, research, and experiences of creative resistance against systems of oppression, all the while celebrating struggles for survival, justice, and reparations by imprisoned people, activists, and artists.
Join us for readings and conversation centered on abolition, feminism and freedom featuring:
Tara Betts, poet, editor, author of Refuse to Disappear
Dorothy Burge, "Artist for the People" Practitioner Fellow, CSRPC and Human Rights Lab
Amber Ginsburg, co-editor of Remaking the Exceptional
LaTanya Jenifor-Sublett, Peer Re-entry Program Director, Chicago Torture Justice Center
Maira Khwaja, Director of Public Strategy, Invisible Institute
Alice Kim, Director of Human Rights Practice, Pozen Center at University of Chicago
Aislinn Pulley, Co-Executive Director, Chicago Torture Justice Center
A reception will follow the program.
This event is co-sponsored by The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture; The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; Department of Visual Arts; Pozen Center's Human Rights Lab.