We Got Us: Community Care Models to Disrupt Poverty Criminalization & Family Separation
This teach-in was hosted by Center for Reproductive Rights and Justice at UCBerkeley, If/When/How, Movement for Family Power, and Elephant Circle.
In November 2024, Center for Reproductive Rights and Justice at UCBerkeley, If/When/How, and Movement for Family Power convened the Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice: Building Solidarity to End Family Policing symposium to interrogate the family policing system as a reproductive injustice. Then, we continued the work with a 5-part virtual teach-in series in collaboration with Elephant Circle.
Listen in to part five: “We Got Us: Community Care Models to Disrupt Poverty Criminalization & Family Separation.” Systems of criminalization have long stolen the resources families need to be safe, and then criminalized us for lack of resources. And for decades, racist myths like the “welfare queen” have been created to block government assistance for families and turn “assistance” into surveillance. This tactic continues today.
But in the face of structural abandonment, community protects community. Join us to hear from abolition dreamers who are advancing reproductive justice by building models of community care and demanding reparation:
Imani Worthy, Black Families Love & Unite
Khiara Bridges, UC Berkeley Law
Margaret Prescod, Global Women’s Strike
Rena Karefa-Johnson, FWD.us
zara raven, Philly Child Care Collective