Decolonising Locally: A panel on migration, abolition and decolonisation
DATE: November 27, 2024
TIME: 6.15-7.45pm
LOCATION: Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, St Paul’s, Bristol, BS1 3QY
TICKETS:
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Join the Migrants’ Rights Network in Bristol on 27 November 2024 at 6.15pm for a Panel talk on the intersections between migrant justice and abolition, what decolonisation can look like locally, and how we can organise and build local resistance to the racist structures that keep our communities oppressed.
SPEAKERS
Siza Dube is a London-based Black feminisms researcher specializing in the experiences of historically marginalized groups, particularly Black and poor communities. As a doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol, she contributes to the Leverhulme Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism Project, focusing on the histories of Black women organizing around welfare inequalities and reproductive justice in the UK.
Currently, Siza supports the MA Gender, Generation, and Forced Migration module at UCL Geography. She also delivers Black feminisms workshops for schools and colleges, empowering young people to challenge systems of oppression and reimagine the world around them. Alongside her academic work, Siza works as a consultant for social justice charities, offering expertise on the intersections of gender, race, class, and culture.
With a commitment to decolonial and liberatory practices, Siza’s work bridges academia, activism, and community organizing to dismantle oppressive systems and envision a more equitable present and future.
Carolina Echegaray is an organizer, youth worker , social researcher and educator. Carolina’s work is at the intersection of child rights, transformative justice, childism, PiC abolition, anti-racism and indigenous ways of knowing. Their focus is on Dismantling the root causes of violence against children. Carolina is a child refugee having arrived to the UK from Peru at the age of 6, they have lived and worked in many parts of the world but now settled in rural Bristol.
WHO IS THIS EVENT FOR?
- For those who can not attend the full Bristol organising day.
- Everyone who wants to learn, engage and discuss dismantling systems of oppression.
- We particularly want migrants, including refugees, Bristolian activists, and more to join.
- We will prioritise racialised and migrant, including refugee, attendees.
ORGANISERS
- Migrants’ Rights Network is a UK charity that stands in solidarity with all migrants in their fights for rights and justice. We co-curate campaigns using anti-oppression practices to create transformational change, extending beyond the individual impact on migrants’ lives, to tackle oppression at its source.