UIC Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement presents:
Civic Engagement Lunch Talk: “Activist Mothering: Ending Police Violence through a Reproductive Justice Lens”
Presented by Professor Nadine Naber,
Gender and Women's Studies and Global Asian Studies and Esther Hernandez, Member of Mothers of the Kidnapped and Innocent Demand Justice & Mother of Juan and Rosendo Hernandez
Wednesday, March 2 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Registration required for Zoom link: https://go.uic.edu/celunchtalkmarch
This talk will focus on what it means to bring a reproductive justice framework to the struggle to end police torture and frame-ups. Specifically, it will focus on the implications of involving mothers and caretakers of police torture survivors in advocacy for justice and abolition. The presentation is based upon a policy process conducted with mothers and caretakers of police torture survivors. The process involved developing mechanisms for increasing the advocacy of mothers and caretakers living on the outside of prison walls into Chicago-based social movements around prison injustices on the inside. Specifically, these mechanisms have opened up new possibilities for supporting the integration of mothers and caretakers into policy processes with the offices of the State's Attorney, the Governor and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Racial Discrimination.
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