Her first book, Letters of the Law (Stanford University Press 2015), extends the theoretical insights of critical race theory to produce new readings of American law’s landmark decisions on race and civil rights. Program at UC Irvine, and an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society with courtesy appointments in the School of Law and African American Studies. Sora Han is the Director of the Culture & Theory Ph.D. Solitary Garden, a public art project about mass incarceration and solitary confinement, is concurrently on view at UC Santa Cruz. The events accompany Barring Freedom, an exhibition of contemporary art on view at San José Museum of Art, October 30, 2020-April 25, 2021. Rachel Nelson, Director, Institute of the Arts and Sciences.

Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized by Professor Gina Dent, Feminist Studies and Dr. W/ Sora Han, adrienne maree brown and Savannah Shange What are the creative and radical abolitionist methods that are creating the future that “we long for,” in brown’s words, in the present? The majority of the book is sourced from brown’s twenty-plus years of facilitation and mediation work with movement groups.For the next Visualizing Abolition event, join legal and popular culture theorist Sora Han, author and activist adrienne maree brown, and urban anthropologist Savannah Shange for a conversation on strategies, activism, and liberatory futures. Holding Change is about attending to coordination, to conflict, to being humans in right relationship with each other, not as a constant ongoing state, but rather as a magnificent, mysterious, ever-evolving dynamic in which we must involve ourselves, shape ourselves and each other. How do we practice them in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imagining of our future? How do we attend to generating the ease necessary to help us move through the inevitable struggles of life? How do we practice the art of holding others without losing ourselves? Black feminists have answers to those questions that can serve anyone working to create changes in our world, changes great and small individually, interpersonally, and within our organizations. In our complex world, facilitation and mediation skills are as important for individuals as they are for organizations. Part of the Emergent Strategies series.

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