Resisting Carceral Sanism

Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2023 conference, in Chicago.
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An increasing wave of policies and legislation, from Eric Adams’ stance on involuntary hospitalization to Gavin Newsom’s Care Courts, seeks to criminalize madness and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Join scholar Liat Ben-Moshe and writer Leah Harris, along with facilitator Beatrice Adler-Bolton of the Death Panel podcast, for a discussion on why it is so critical for the left to work against these policies, and how to understand the politics of what Ben-Moshe has termed “carceral sanism.”
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Speakers
Beatrice Adler-Bolton is the co-author of Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (Verso Books, 2022) and a co-host of the Death Panel podcast.
Liat Ben-Moshe is Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (University of Minnesota Press, 2020).
Leah Harris (she/they) is a mad and disabled writer, facilitator and advocate whose work has appeared in The Progressive, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Mad in America.

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