Gary Kinsman will be giving a lunch-time talk in the School of Social Work on October 17, 2024, from 12:30-1:30, on the topic of "From Limited and Formal Rights to Abolitionism: Against the Police, Prisons, and Carceral Injustice" in St John's College, Room J2008.

This talk is dedicated to the Palestinian people and the people of Lebanon facing genocidal attack.

This is an in-person only event where masking will be mandatory. Disposable masks will be provided.

Gary Kinsman is a longtime queer liberation and anti-racist, anti-capitalist activist currently involved with Queers4Palestine Toronto, Abolitionist Pride and Scholar Strike Canada. In the early 1990s he taught in Sociology at Memorial and was involved in Gays and Lesbians Together (GALT) and the Newfoundland AIDS Association. He is the author of The Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles and co-author of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation.

 

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Location: St. John's College Rm J2008

Date and Time: Thursday, Oct. 17 at 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM (NDT)

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