Queer Abolition-InQueery Symposium 2020

About the event

Queer Abolition, the 2020 InQueery Symposium, responds to both recent and long-standing calls from queer and feminist activists to address police misconduct and violence.  This Zoom event will include concurrent sessions of WSU student research presentations (4:30-5:45pm, PT), and “Queer Dreams of Abolition Futures,” a lecture by attorney, activist, and author Andrea J. Ritchie (6-7pm, PT).

A Graduate of the Howard University School of Law, Ritchie has served as counsel in multiple groundbreaking legal cases, as well as provided testimony to organizations such as the United Nations. Ritchie is Researcher-in-Residence at the Barnard Center for Research on Women and the author of several volumes, including the 2017 book Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Beacon). Ritchie edited with Levi Craske the summer 2019 volume of Scholar & Feminist Online titled “Unraveling Criminalizing Webs: Building Police Free Futures.”

The InQueery Symposium was initiated by students in the Department of Women’s Studies over a decade ago. Now an annual event, InQueery brings together undergraduate and graduate student scholars and faculty from across WSU, as well as members of the public interested in social justice, to envision the future of queer theory and politics. InQueery 2020 is co-sponsored by the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, GIESORC, and the Women*s Center at WSU.

Please visit https://wgss.wsu.edu/ for more information on WGSS events and academic offerings.