Shira Hassan's guest appearances

Shira Hassan

Beyond Prisons

The Lit Review Podcast

The Emergent Strategy Podcast

Haymarket Books Live

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Mimi Kim

This is the third episode in our Creative Interventions series, where we explore this fantastic and practical toolkit for stopping interpersonal violence and speak with some of the people whose organizing efforts directly informed it. We speak with Mimi Kim and Shira Hassan once again, this time with reflections, observations, and other notes for people who are considering interventions. If you’ve got the toolkit at home, which you can purchase from AK press or access for free at creative-interventions.org, we’re touching on some of the topics in Section 2.3, which is entitled, “Violence Intervention: Some Important Lessons” and begins on page 93 of the toolkit. There’s a lot more in this section than what we get to in the episode, so we highly suggest checking it out. In this conversation, Shira and Mimi answer some broad questions about common challenges with interventions. What can happen when people are asked to take accountability? What are the pro’s and con’s of an intervention involving people you know or may be close to? How long should an intervention last, or should it be ongoing? And a lot more. The release of this episode coincides with the publication of a new workbook companion for the CI Toolkit which features useful and practical worksheets and tools. The CI workbook was just released through AK Press. A google doc version of the workbook which you can use to adapt to your own situation of harm is available for free at creative-interventions.org. You can find links to further resources in the episode notes, including Shira’s amazing new anthology, Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction, which is now available from Haymarket Books. We highly recommend you check that out and support Shira's work however you can.   Shira Hassan has trained and spoken nationally on the sex trade, harm reduction, self-injury, healing justice and transformative justice. Currently working as a fellow at Interrupting Criminalization, Shira runs The Help Desk . The Help Desk offers supportive thought partnership to individuals and groups working to interrupt crises and violence without using the police. Along with Mariame Kaba, she is the co-author of Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators and the author of  Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction. Mimi Kim is the founder of Creative Interventions and a co-founder of INCITE! She has been a long-time activist, advocate and researcher challenging gender-based violence at its intersection with state violence and creating community accountability, transformative justice and other community-based alternatives to criminalization. As a second generation Korean American, she locates her political work in global solidarity with feminist anti-imperialist struggles, seeking not only the end of oppression but of the creation of liberation here and now. Her recent publications include 2020’s “The Carceral Creep” and 2018’s “From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice”. She is currently working on The CHAT Project, a non-law enforcement restorative justice project addressing domestic and sexual violence in Contra Costa County, California. Mimi and Shira are also partnering on a re-boot of the StoryTelling &amp; Organizing Project or STOP featuring stories of everyday people creatively and collectively ending violence. Stay tuned. Alright, that’s it for now. You can find links to the CI website and toolkit as well as other resources in the episode notes. Thanks for listening and here’s our conversation. Episode Resources &amp; Notes Shira Hassan:   Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction. Interrupting Criminalization - The Help Desk Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators   Mimi Kim: Creative Interventions Website Creative Interventions Toolkit (Physical copy) Creative Interventions Toolkit (Free PDF)  Creative Interventions Toolkit in Spanish (Free PDF) Creative Interventions Workbook (Physical copy)  Creative Interventions Workbook (Google Doc) The CHAT Project StoryTelling &amp; Organizing Project (STOP) Follow CI on Facebook Follow CI on IG Follow CI on Twitter Credits Created and hosted by Kim Wilson and Brian Nam-Sonenstein Edited by Brian Nam-Sonenstein Website &amp; volunteers managed by Victoria Nam Theme music by Jared Ware Support Beyond Prisons Visit our website at beyond-prisons.com Support our show and join us on Patreon. Check out our other donation options as well. Please listen, subscribe, and rate/review our podcast on  Apple Podcast, Spotify, and  Google Play Join our mailing list for updates on new episodes, events, and more Send tips, comments, and questions to beyondprisonspodcast@gmail.com Kim Wilson is available for speaking engagements and to facilitate workshops. Please contact beyondprisonspodcast@gmail.com for more information Twitter: @Beyond_Prison Facebook:@beyondprisonspodcast Instagram:@beyondprisons

This is the third episode in our Creative Interventions series, where we explore this fantastic and practical toolkit for stopping interpersonal violence and speak with some of the people whose organizing efforts directly informed it. We speak with Mimi Kim and Shira Hassan once again, this time with reflections, observations, and other notes for people who are considering interventions. If you’ve got the toolkit at home, which you can purchase from AK press or access for free at <a href="http://creative-interventions.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">creative-interventions.org</a>, we’re touching on some of the topics in Section 2.3, which is entitled, “Violence Intervention: Some Important Lessons” and begins on page 93 of the toolkit. There’s a lot more in this section than what we get to in the episode, so we highly suggest checking it out. In this conversation, Shira and Mimi answer some broad questions about common challenges with interventions. What can happen when people are asked to take accountability? What are the pro’s and con’s of an intervention involving people you know or may be close to? How long should an intervention last, or should it be ongoing? And a lot more. The release of this episode coincides with the publication of a new workbook companion for the CI Toolkit which features useful and practical worksheets and tools. The <a href="https://www.akpress.org/ciwork.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CI workbook</a> was just released through AK Press. A google doc version of the workbook which you can use to adapt to your own situation of harm is available for free at <a href="http://creative-interventions.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">creative-interventions.org</a>. You can find links to further resources in the episode notes, including Shira’s amazing new anthology, Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction, which is now available from Haymarket Books. We highly recommend you check that out and support Shira's work however you can.   <a href="https://just-practice.org/about-shira" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shira Hassan</a> has trained and spoken nationally on the sex trade, harm reduction, self-injury, healing justice and transformative justice. Currently working as a fellow at <a href="https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Interrupting Criminalization</a>, Shira runs <a href="https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/helpdesk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Help Desk</a> . The Help Desk offers supportive thought partnership to individuals and groups working to interrupt crises and violence without using the police. Along with Mariame Kaba, she is the co-author of <a href="https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators</a> and the author of <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/saving-our-own-lives-a-liberatory-practice-of-harm-reduction-9781642598810/9781642598414?gclid=Cj0KCQjw7KqZBhCBARIsAI-fTKKB0aQdmmDImnM2Vmhhh2uumRIMo4__OPyg1c8-ZfVqk8sNU9iLeZkaAraHEALw_wcB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction.</a> Mimi Kim is the founder of Creative Interventions and a co-founder of INCITE! She has been a long-time activist, advocate and researcher challenging gender-based violence at its intersection with state violence and creating community accountability, transformative justice and other community-based alternatives to criminalization. As a second generation Korean American, she locates her political work in global solidarity with feminist anti-imperialist struggles, seeking not only the end of oppression but of the creation of liberation here and now. Her recent publications include 2020’s “The Carceral Creep” and 2018’s “From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice”. She is currently working on <a href="https://chatproject.org/news-and-reports/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The CHAT Project</a>, a non-law enforcement restorative justice project addressing domestic and sexual violence in Contra Costa County, California. Mimi and Shira are also partnering on a re-boot of the <a href="https://www.creative-interventions.org/stories/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">StoryTelling &amp; Organizing Project</a> or STOP featuring stories of everyday people creatively and collectively ending violence. Stay tuned. Alright, that’s it for now. You can find links to the CI website and toolkit as well as other resources in the episode notes. Thanks for listening and here’s our conversation. Episode Resources &amp; Notes Shira Hassan:  <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/saving-our-own-lives-a-liberatory-practice-of-harm-reduction-9781642598810/9781642598414?gclid=Cj0KCQjw7KqZBhCBARIsAI-fTKKB0aQdmmDImnM2Vmhhh2uumRIMo4__OPyg1c8-ZfVqk8sNU9iLeZkaAraHEALw_wcB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction.</a> <a href="https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/helpdesk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Interrupting Criminalization - The Help Desk</a> <a href="https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators</a> Mimi Kim: <a href="https://creative-interventions.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Creative Interventions Website</a> <a href="https://www.akpress.org/creative-interventions-toolkit.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Creative Interventions Toolkit (Physical copy)</a> <a href="https://creative-interventions.org/tools/toolkit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Creative Interventions Toolkit (Free PDF)</a> <a href="https://www.creative-interventions.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/toolkit-completo.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Creative Interventions Toolkit in Spanish (Free PDF)</a> <a href="https://www.akpress.org/ciwork.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Creative Interventions Workbook (Physical copy)</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zdhk46d4rRKqHNlZMyBbGUCAnWIXae9N0_QJ8MFeVHI/edit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Creative Interventions Workbook (Google Doc)</a> <a href="https://chatproject.org/news-and-reports/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The CHAT Project</a> <a href="https://www.creative-interventions.org/stories/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">StoryTelling &amp; Organizing Project (STOP)</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Creative-Interventions-197158803973934/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Follow CI on Facebook</a> <a href="https://instagram.com/creativetoolkit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Follow CI on IG</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CIToolkit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Follow CI on Twitter</a> Credits Created and hosted by <a href="https://twitter.com/phillyprof03/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kim Wilson</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/bsonenstein" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Brian Nam-Sonenstein</a> Edited by Brian Nam-Sonenstein Website &amp; volunteers managed by Victoria Nam Theme music by Jared Ware Support Beyond Prisons Visit our website at <a href="https://www.beyond-prisons.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">beyond-prisons.com</a> Support our show and <a href="https://patreon.com/beyondprisons" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">join us on Patreon</a>. Check out our other <a href="https://www.beyond-prisons.com/donate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">donation options</a> as well. 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CI Toolkit: Perspectives On Interventions feat. Mimi Kim & Shira Hassan

This is the second episode in our  Creative Interventions series, where we explore this fantastic and practical toolkit for stopping interpersonal violence and speak with some of the people whose organizing efforts directly informed it. We speak with Mimi and Shira Hassan about the basics of interpersonal violence as outlined in the Creative Interventions Toolkit. If you’ve got the toolkit at home, which you can purchase from AK press or access for free at creative-interventions.org, we’re touching on some of the topics in Section 2: Some Basics Everyone Should Know. There’s a lot more in this section than what we get to in the episode, so we highly suggest checking it out. After Shira tells us a bit about her work including a follow-up workbook she and Mariame Kaba created to build upon the Creative Interventions Toolkit, she and Mimi share what the term "interpersonal violence" means to them, and what it can look like. They explain why it’s important to assess power dynamics when determining if an intervention should be attempted, and how we can recognize how interpersonal violence impacts people other than those most involved.  The release of this episode coincides with the publication of a new workbook companion for the CI Toolkit which features useful and practical worksheets and tools. The CI workbook was just released through AK Press. A google doc version of the workbook which you can use to adapt to your own situation of harm is available for free at creative-interventions.org, You can find links to further resources in the episode notes, including Shira’s amazing new anthology, Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction, which is available for pre-order now and comes out on October 4 from Haymarket Books. We highly recommend you check that out and support Shira's work however you can.  Shira Hassan has trained and spoken nationally on the sex trade, harm reduction, self-injury, healing justice and transformative justice. Currently working as a fellow at Interrupting Criminalization, Shira runs The Help Desk . The Help Desk offers supportive thought partnership to individuals and groups working to interrupt crises and violence without using the police. Along with Mariame Kaba, she is the co-author of Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators and the author of  Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction. Mimi Kim is the founder of Creative Interventions and a co-founder of INCITE! She has been a long-time activist, advocate and researcher challenging gender-based violence at its intersection with state violence and creating community accountability, transformative justice and other community-based alternatives to criminalization. As a second generation Korean American, she locates her political work in global solidarity with feminist anti-imperialist struggles, seeking not only the end of oppression but of the creation of liberation here and now. Her recent publications include 2020’s “The Carceral Creep” and 2018’s “From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice”. She is currently working on The CHAT Project, a non-law enforcement restorative justice project addressing domestic and sexual violence in Contra Costa County, California. Mimi and Shira are also partnering on a re-boot of the StoryTelling &amp; Organizing Project or STOP featuring stories of everyday people creatively and collectively ending violence. Stay tuned. Alright, that’s it for now. You can find links to the CI website and toolkit as well as other resources in the episode notes. Thanks for listening and here’s our conversation. Episode Resources &amp; Notes Shira Hassan:   Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction. Interrupting Criminalization - The Help Desk Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators Mimi Kim: Creative Interventions Website  Creative Interventions Toolkit (Physical copy) Creative Interventions Toolkit (Free PDF)  Creative Interventions Toolkit in Spanish (Free PDF) Creative Interventions Workbook (Physical copy)  Creative Interventions Workbook (Google Doc) The CHAT Project StoryTelling &amp; Organizing Project (STOP)  Follow CI on Facebook Follow CI on IG Follow CI on Twitter Credits Created and hosted by Kim Wilson and Brian Nam-Sonenstein Edited by Brian Nam-Sonenstein Website &amp; volunteers managed by Victoria Nam Theme music by Jared Ware Support Beyond Prisons Visit our website at beyond-prisons.com Support our show and join us on Patreon. Check out our other donation options as well. Please listen, subscribe, and rate/review our podcast on  Apple Podcast, Spotify, and  Google Play Join our mailing list for updates on new episodes, events, and more Send tips, comments, and questions to beyondprisonspodcast@gmail.com Kim Wilson is available for speaking engagements and to facilitate workshops. Please contact beyondprisonspodcast@gmail.com for more information Twitter: @Beyond_Prison Facebook:@beyondprisonspodcast Instagram:@beyondprisons

This is the second episode in our <a href="https://www.beyond-prisons.com/home/category/Creative+Interventions" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Creative Interventions series</a>, where we explore this fantastic and practical toolkit for stopping interpersonal violence and speak with some of the people whose organizing efforts directly informed it. We speak with Mimi and Shira Hassan about the basics of interpersonal violence as outlined in the Creative Interventions Toolkit. If you’ve got the toolkit at home, which you can purchase from AK press or access for free at <a href="http://creative-interventions.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">creative-interventions.org</a>, we’re touching on some of the topics in Section 2: Some Basics Everyone Should Know. There’s a lot more in this section than what we get to in the episode, so we highly suggest checking it out. After Shira tells us a bit about her work including a follow-up workbook she and Mariame Kaba created to build upon the Creative Interventions Toolkit, she and Mimi share what the term "interpersonal violence" means to them, and what it can look like. They explain why it’s important to assess power dynamics when determining if an intervention should be attempted, and how we can recognize how interpersonal violence impacts people other than those most involved.  The release of this episode coincides with the publication of a new workbook companion for the CI Toolkit which features useful and practical worksheets and tools. The <a href="https://www.akpress.org/ciwork.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CI workbook</a> was just released through AK Press. A google doc version of the workbook which you can use to adapt to your own situation of harm is available for free at <a href="http://creative-interventions.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">creative-interventions.org</a>, You can find links to further resources in the episode notes, including Shira’s amazing new anthology, Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction, which is available for pre-order now and comes out on October 4 from Haymarket Books. We highly recommend you check that out and support Shira's work however you can.  <a href="https://just-practice.org/about-shira" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shira Hassan</a> has trained and spoken nationally on the sex trade, harm reduction, self-injury, healing justice and transformative justice. Currently working as a fellow at <a href="https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Interrupting Criminalization</a>, Shira runs <a href="https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/helpdesk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Help Desk</a> . The Help Desk offers supportive thought partnership to individuals and groups working to interrupt crises and violence without using the police. Along with Mariame Kaba, she is the co-author of <a href="https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators</a> and the author of <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/saving-our-own-lives-a-liberatory-practice-of-harm-reduction-9781642598810/9781642598414?gclid=Cj0KCQjw7KqZBhCBARIsAI-fTKKB0aQdmmDImnM2Vmhhh2uumRIMo4__OPyg1c8-ZfVqk8sNU9iLeZkaAraHEALw_wcB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction.</a> Mimi Kim is the founder of Creative Interventions and a co-founder of INCITE! She has been a long-time activist, advocate and researcher challenging gender-based violence at its intersection with state violence and creating community accountability, transformative justice and other community-based alternatives to criminalization. As a second generation Korean American, she locates her political work in global solidarity with feminist anti-imperialist struggles, seeking not only the end of oppression but of the creation of liberation here and now. Her recent publications include 2020’s “The Carceral Creep” and 2018’s “From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice”. She is currently working on <a href="https://chatproject.org/news-and-reports/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The CHAT Project</a>, a non-law enforcement restorative justice project addressing domestic and sexual violence in Contra Costa County, California. Mimi and Shira are also partnering on a re-boot of the <a href="https://www.creative-interventions.org/stories/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">StoryTelling &amp; Organizing Project</a> or STOP featuring stories of everyday people creatively and collectively ending violence. Stay tuned. Alright, that’s it for now. You can find links to the CI website and toolkit as well as other resources in the episode notes. Thanks for listening and here’s our conversation. Episode Resources &amp; Notes Shira Hassan:  <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/saving-our-own-lives-a-liberatory-practice-of-harm-reduction-9781642598810/9781642598414?gclid=Cj0KCQjw7KqZBhCBARIsAI-fTKKB0aQdmmDImnM2Vmhhh2uumRIMo4__OPyg1c8-ZfVqk8sNU9iLeZkaAraHEALw_wcB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction.</a> <a href="https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/helpdesk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Interrupting Criminalization - The Help Desk</a> <a href="https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators</a> Mimi Kim: <a href="https://creative-interventions.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Creative Interventions Website</a> <a href="https://www.akpress.org/creative-interventions-toolkit.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Creative Interventions Toolkit (Physical copy)</a> <a href="https://creative-interventions.org/tools/toolkit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Creative Interventions Toolkit (Free PDF)</a> <a href="https://www.creative-interventions.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/toolkit-completo.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Creative Interventions Toolkit in Spanish (Free PDF)</a> <a href="https://www.akpress.org/ciwork.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Creative Interventions Workbook (Physical copy)</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zdhk46d4rRKqHNlZMyBbGUCAnWIXae9N0_QJ8MFeVHI/edit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Creative Interventions Workbook (Google Doc)</a> <a href="https://chatproject.org/news-and-reports/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The CHAT Project</a> <a href="https://www.creative-interventions.org/stories/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">StoryTelling &amp; Organizing Project (STOP)</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Creative-Interventions-197158803973934/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Follow CI on Facebook</a> <a href="https://instagram.com/creativetoolkit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Follow CI on IG</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CIToolkit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Follow CI on Twitter</a> Credits Created and hosted by <a href="https://twitter.com/phillyprof03/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kim Wilson</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/bsonenstein" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Brian Nam-Sonenstein</a> Edited by Brian Nam-Sonenstein Website &amp; volunteers managed by Victoria Nam Theme music by Jared Ware Support Beyond Prisons Visit our website at <a href="https://www.beyond-prisons.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">beyond-prisons.com</a> Support our show and <a href="https://patreon.com/beyondprisons" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">join us on Patreon</a>. 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CI Toolkit: What Does Interpersonal Violence Look Like? feat. Mimi Kim & Shira Hassan

The healing justice movement is an intersectional and organized resistance to the state and state violence, but why is it so often misunderstood as simply an opposition to grind culture? In this episode, we discuss ableism, disability, healing justice, and the book Kindling by Aurora Levins Morales with one of our sheroes and teachers, Shira Hassan, co-founder of Just Practice and former Executive Director of the Young Women’s Empowerment Project. This is a rich episode with so many gems of wisdom and raw vulnerability. It’s one to listen to again and again (and again)!Listener's Note: This conversation includes mentions of sexual violence and abuse. Please listen with care. Transcript and key questions explored in this episode can be found at thelitreview.org.

The healing justice movement is an intersectional and organized resistance to the state and state violence, but why is it so often misunderstood as simply an opposition to grind culture? In this episode, we discuss ableism, disability, healing justice, and the book Kindling by Aurora Levins Morales with one of our sheroes and teachers, Shira Hassan, co-founder of Just Practice and former Executive Director of the Young Women’s Empowerment Project. This is a rich episode with so many gems of wisdom and raw vulnerability. It’s one to listen to again and again (and again)! Listener's Note: This conversation includes mentions of sexual violence and abuse. Please listen with care. Transcript and key questions explored in this episode can be found at <a href="http://thelitreview.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thelitreview.org</a>.

Episode 59: Kindling with Shira Hassan

Harm reduction is a critical movement tool used for generations to create change, build long-term relationships, and support healing while working to reduce harm in our community.Shira Hassan, a long-time harm reduction and transformative justice practitioner, shares her own experiences with harm reduction as a young person in the sex trade to her recent adventures as an instructor of one of social work's most sought after courses (University of Chicago and University of Washington, Seattle).This instructional and participatory session will provide an overview of harm reduction principles, values and practice - and how it intersects with transformative justice work within a social work context. There is no justice that leaves out people in the sex trade &amp; street economy, drug users and street based young people.Shira offers her reflections, cautions and thoughts about the possibilities for the future of harm reduction as an abolitionist strategy. Sheila Vakharia, Deputy Director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement for the Drug Policy Alliance, will introduce the webinar and moderate an interactive audience discussion at the close of the evening.Social work, historically and today, has been deeply embedded in systems of carceral control. With social work's legacy of ties to policing and oppressive family regulation through the child welfare system, the social work community is actively imagining and working towards a social work rooted in abolition, turning to traditions of resistance that also characterize its history. The Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work (NAAASW) is a group of social workers from different parts of the U.S. building a year-long initiative to support abolitionist work in the field of social work. The initiative includes ongoing political education, research, knowledge generation around carceral and abolition social work, developing an online hub of abolitionist social work resources, and broader organizing and advocacy efforts to build abolitionist ideas and practices into social work.Shira Hassan is an organizer with nearly 25 years of experience. She is the former Director of the Young Women’s Empowerment Project where the participatory evaluation that she co-designed and implemented was recognized by the United Nations as part of its Universal Periodic Review of the U.S. treatment of people in the sex trade. Shira has focused on the experiences of girls, boys, transgender and queer youth involved in the sex trade and street economy and has stabled 4 syringe exchanges for young people in the sex trade and transgender people. She has trained and spoken nationally on transformative justice, harm reduction and leadership development of young people of color. Along with Mariame Kaba, she is the co-author of Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators. Shira currently teaches in the graduate school of Social Work at both the University of Chicago and the University of Washington. She received her Masters in Social Work from New York University in 2002.Sheila P Vakharia is Deputy Director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement for the Drug Policy Alliance. In that role, she helps DPA staff and others understand a range of drug policy issues while also responding to new studies with critiques and analysis.  Prior to joining DPA, Dr. Vakharia was an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Long Island University, and had also worked as a clinical social worker in both abstinence-only and harm reduction settings.This event is sponsored by the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work and Haymarket Books. For more info about Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work: https://www.naasw.comWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/_iFwX_JzunkBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.orgFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Harm reduction is a critical movement tool used for generations to create change, build long-term relationships, and support healing while working to reduce harm in our community. Shira Hassan, a long-time harm reduction and transformative justice practitioner, shares her own experiences with harm reduction as a young person in the sex trade to her recent adventures as an instructor of one of social work's most sought after courses (University of Chicago and University of Washington, Seattle). This instructional and participatory session will provide an overview of harm reduction principles, values and practice - and how it intersects with transformative justice work within a social work context. There is no justice that leaves out people in the sex trade &amp; street economy, drug users and street based young people. Shira offers her reflections, cautions and thoughts about the possibilities for the future of harm reduction as an abolitionist strategy. Sheila Vakharia, Deputy Director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement for the Drug Policy Alliance, will introduce the webinar and moderate an interactive audience discussion at the close of the evening. Social work, historically and today, has been deeply embedded in systems of carceral control. With social work's legacy of ties to policing and oppressive family regulation through the child welfare system, the social work community is actively imagining and working towards a social work rooted in abolition, turning to traditions of resistance that also characterize its history. The Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work (NAAASW) is a group of social workers from different parts of the U.S. building a year-long initiative to support abolitionist work in the field of social work. The initiative includes ongoing political education, research, knowledge generation around carceral and abolition social work, developing an online hub of abolitionist social work resources, and broader organizing and advocacy efforts to build abolitionist ideas and practices into social work. Shira Hassan is an organizer with nearly 25 years of experience. She is the former Director of the Young Women’s Empowerment Project where the participatory evaluation that she co-designed and implemented was recognized by the United Nations as part of its Universal Periodic Review of the U.S. treatment of people in the sex trade. Shira has focused on the experiences of girls, boys, transgender and queer youth involved in the sex trade and street economy and has stabled 4 syringe exchanges for young people in the sex trade and transgender people. She has trained and spoken nationally on transformative justice, harm reduction and leadership development of young people of color. Along with Mariame Kaba, she is the co-author of Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators. Shira currently teaches in the graduate school of Social Work at both the University of Chicago and the University of Washington. She received her Masters in Social Work from New York University in 2002. Sheila P Vakharia is Deputy Director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement for the Drug Policy Alliance. In that role, she helps DPA staff and others understand a range of drug policy issues while also responding to new studies with critiques and analysis. Prior to joining DPA, Dr. Vakharia was an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Long Island University, and had also worked as a clinical social worker in both abstinence-only and harm reduction settings. This event is sponsored by the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work and Haymarket Books. For more info about Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work: <a href="https://www.naasw.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.naasw.com</a> Watch the live event recording: <a href="https://youtu.be/_iFwX_Jzunk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/_iFwX_Jzunk</a> Buy books from Haymarket: <a href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.haymarketbooks.org</a> Follow us on Soundcloud: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks</a>