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Film programme
Queer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders
Dean Spade, Tourmaline, Hope Dector18:00 Fri 21–21:30 Sun 23 Oct/ TramwayA crash-course in pre-figurative, radical, queer, anti-racist, anti-police, anti-prison, anti-deportation abolitionist politics and trans-resistance.
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Discussion
Life in Flight from Every Prison
CeCe McDonald, Dean Spade, Joshua Allen, We Will Rise19:15–20:45 Fri 21 Oct/ TramwayIs there a link between the ways we’re caged and exiled by the prison-industrial complex and the ways people’s bodies are violently categorised and segregated by race, class, gender or ability?
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Screening
Criminal Queers
Eric A Stanley & Chris Vargas21:15–22:15 Fri 21 Oct/ TramwayCriminal Queers visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex, working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.
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Club
Refuse Powers’ Grasp Club - We Will Rise Fundraiser
Juliana Huxtable, Elysia Crampton, boychild23:00 Fri 21–03:00 Sat 22 Oct/ The Art SchoolAll ticket income goes directly to We Will Rise - a group of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and their allies who have come together to End Immigration Detention in the UK.
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Discussion
#BlackExcellenceTour
CeCe McDonald & Joshua Allen11:30–13:00 Sat 22 Oct/ TramwayA collaborative social justice project that uses art, activism and awareness to combat the systemic oppression facing young, trans, queer & gender nonconforming people of colour.
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Discussion
Captive Genders - Criminalisation
Eric A Stanley, Che Gossett, English Collective of Prostitutes, Scot-Pep/ Umbrella Lane14:00–15:30 Sat 22 Oct/ TramwayWhat is happening when systems of repression try to grasp communities’ ways of being, living or surviving, applying laws of sexuality, gender or race to cast them as criminal?
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Open Rehearsal
[b]reach: The Fugitive Chronicles – an open rehearsal
Gallery of the Streets & Glasgow Open Dance School16:15–17:00 Sat 22 Oct/ TramwayThe ongoing development of [b]reach, an abolitionist black queer retelling of Marge Piercy’s incredible feminist utopian novel Woman on the Edge of Time.
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Discussion
Recipes to Change Society
Mujeres Creando17:30–18:30 Sat 22 Oct/ TramwayA sort of prayer and conference, a sort of scream and dialogue - a monologue and declaration at the time, addressing how we can build complicity with one another.
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Performance
Resident Evil
Sondra Perry19:30–20:15 Sat 22 Oct/ TramwayJumping off from Sun Ra’s thoughts on evil, and the Alien films, this performance will explore how the sociality Sondra wants to visualise and participate in has no interest in respectability.
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Discussion
Miss Major and CeCe McDonald in conversation with Eric A Stanley
Miss Major, CeCe McDonald, Eric A Stanley20:40–22:15 Sat 22 Oct/ TramwayA conversation of intergenerational trans-resistance and anti-racist fierceness between two of the most inspiring public speakers we know.
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Discussion
Blackness, Animality and the Unsovereign
Che Gossett12:30–14:00 Sun 23 Oct/ TramwayHow black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
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Discussion
Against Inclusion
Mujeres Creando , Dean Spade, Eric A Stanley15:30–17:00 Sun 23 Oct/ TramwayWhat does it mean to resist seeking assimilation or inclusion within, or let our demands be co-opted by the very systems we seek to dismantle?
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Performance
Lineage for a Multiple-Monitor Work-station
Sondra Perry17:45–18:15 Sun 23 Oct/ TramwayA celebration of our overabundant social entanglement and complicity, that remind us of how we can see ourselves, stripped of powers’ attempts to grasp us.
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Discussion
Prefiguring the World We Want to Live In
Kai Lumumba Barrow, Miss Major, Che Gossett, Tourmaline19:30–21:00 Sun 23 Oct/ TramwayHow do communities practice being one another's means, addressing their material problems facing them replicating the state’s violent logic of who is disposable.
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Performance
Juliana Huxtable
Juliana Huxtable, Joe Heffernan , Ahya Simone21:30–22:15 Sun 23 Oct/ TramwayJuliana’s performances chart the dissonant space and discrepancy between the presumed fixed norms of social life and the fluid lived experience those norms don’t allow for.