Join S. Lamble, Nim Ralph, Eli Erlick and Lavender Pages for the launch of Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash, the powerful new intervention getting to the roots of transphobia in Britain and beyond.
Amidst a rising tide of anti-trans legislation and discrimination on both sides of the Atlantic, the powerful and seductive narrative of protecting ‘safety’ - particularly of women and children - through carceral responses has been deployed again and again, depending on conjured ‘threats’ and the policing of difference.
Yet these approaches fail to address root causes of harm, instead weaponising one group's 'safety' against another's, and legitimising forms of violence, categorisation, and exclusion that ultimately serve to harm us all.
Celebrating the launch of the book, Lamble will be joined in discussion by Nim Ralph and Eli Erlick, followed by a book signing and space for drinks and socialising.
SPEAKERS:
Lamble is a community organizer and Professor of Criminology and Queer Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. Their work explores questions of gender, sexuality, and justice with a focus on feminist and abolitionist alternatives to prisons, police, and punishment. They are based in London.
Eli Erlick is an activist, author, and educator based in New York City. Her first book, Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950 uncovered thirty trans narratives that radically disrupt popular ideas about transgender history. Her forthcoming second book, Outcasts Within: Understanding the Transgender Far Right, explores why right-wing transgender people adopt their views and what we can do to prevent others from joining them.
Nim Ralph is a UK-based activist, writer and educator. They have organised extensively for queer and trans liberation in the context of Britain's toxically transphobic cultural landscape, and work with activists globally. Nim also works as an educator in social movements on movement building strategy, anti-oppression and political education, particularly around anti-racism, disability and the environment.
- Doors open from 6:30pm
- Discussion from 7:15pm
- Network and social until 10pm