The first iteration of the Study and Struggle program ran from September to December 2020. Our Critical Conversations series, hosted by Haymarket Books in the first week of each month, covered the themes for the upcoming month. Smaller study groups met biweekly on the second and fourth weeks of the month.
All of this material is still available to study! Each session includes: required readings, supplementary materials, recommended materials, discussion questions, an exercise related to each session’s topic, and a reading guide. We recommend that everyone read the required readings and that each person in the group select at least one of the supplementary materials to read, watch, or listen to. If you want to learn more, check out the recommended materials, too! The reading guide will help explain some of the main ideas. The discussion questions and exercises can help structure each reading group meeting, but each group should feel free to structure their time however they see fit.
Click a link below to download a PDF of either the full curriculum or the curriculum to send to an incarcerated participant:
SEPTEMBER
Critical conversation 1: Abolition as Study and Deconstructing Racial Capitalism
Date: September 1, 7pm EST
Speakers: Derecka Purnell, Rachel Herzing, Stevie Wilson, and Rukia Lumumba
Session 1: ABOLITION AS STUDY
Session 2: DECONSTRUCTING RACIAL CAPITALISM
OCTOBER
Critical Conversation 2: Abolition, Intersectionality, and Care
Date: September 29, 7pm EST
Speakers: Dean Spade, Andrea Ritchie, Victoria Law, and Pauline Rogers
Session 3: ABOLITION AS INTERSECTIONAL
Session 4: ABOLITION AS CARE
NOVEMBER
Critical Conversation 3: Deconstructing Settler Colonialism and Borders
Date: October 27 at 7pm EST
Speakers: Kelly Lytle Hernández, Nick Estes, Harsha Walia, and Lorena Quiroz
Session 5: DECONSTRUCTING SETTLER COLONIALISM
Session 6: DECONSTRUCTING BORDERS
DECEMBER
Critical Conversation 4: Movement Building and Transnational Freedom Struggles
Date: December 1 at 7pm EST
Speakers: Angela Y. Davis, Medhin Paolos, Lorgia García Peña, and Makani Themba