Program
The issue
- Movement-building: Create stronger partnerships based on mutual respect and shared conceptual clarity between diverse, global movement-actors grappling with the impact of criminalization
- Knowledge-building: Create a globally diverse body of knowledge about the materialisations and effects of criminalization in different geographies, useful for advocacy and towards the further promotion of anti-carceral lawmaking and policymaking practices
- Narrative-building: Create communications materials and tools - built out of collective thinking and strategizing - which can reclaim narrative space in support of anti-carceral efforts, and influence public and political discourse
What we do
- Our program is structured closely around our objectives. It will evolve with time and as we consult with partners, collaborators and our steering committee members.
- Movement partnerships: In close collaboration with our steering committee, we support locally-rooted, community-centered initiatives which aim to push back against criminalization, address harm through non-carceral measures, and/or address the harms done by criminalization. We also partner with other movement organizations and activist-led funds to raise awareness and build commitment for this issue
- Research and knowledge-building: We support individuals and organizations to do regional-level feminist research on trends in criminalization as well as what movements are doing to push back, and then find engaging ways to share this knowledge
- Convenings: We convene critical spaces for courageous cross-regional, cross-movement conversations, designed to push forward collective strategizing and action
- Advocacy and narrative-building: We design and participate in plans for joint advocacy. We also create processes and spaces for collective narrative-building exercises, and design communications and advocacy strategies to reclaim narrative space and influence discourse