Events

Description Join the Rensselaer County SART for the second day of their annual conference, a training for multidisciplinary professionals to experience specialized training together. This event will be offered as a virtual meeting. Topics to include: Sexual Assault: Brain, Experience, Behavior, and Memory, presented by Jim Hopper Ethical Issues...

Description Join us on Wednesday January 26, 2021 as we continue our three-part series dedicated to deepening our knowledge of how many traditional system responses fail to meet the needs of survivors of sexual assault and/or domestic violence and in fact punish survivors for the very...

Description The third installment of me too. International's Survivor Healing Series speaks to the transformative power of Black Joy. As we walk in the legacy of our ancestors, working to disrupt sexual violence in our homes and communities, all the while deepening our healing journeys, we invite...

Description The third installment of me too. International's Survivor Healing Series speaks to the transformative power of Black Joy. As we walk in the legacy of our ancestors, working to disrupt sexual violence in our homes and communities, all the while deepening our healing journeys, we invite...

Description The third installment of me too. International's Survivor Healing Series speaks to the transformative power of Black Joy. As we walk in the legacy of our ancestors, working to disrupt sexual violence in our homes and communities, all the while deepening our healing journeys, we...

Description Survivors of domestic and sexual violence who defend themselves are systemically targeted for punishment by the legal system. Join us for the launch of Defending Self-Defense, a community-based, survivor-centered research report that identifies key patterns in the criminalization of self-defense and recommendations to transform the conditions...

Description When prison industrial complex abolitionists tell people that they want to abolish police and prisons, they invariably ask, “what about the rapists?” Join Eva Nagao and Mariame Kaba for a presentation about the zine they authored, What About the Rapists? An Abolitionist FAQ, which outlines brief answers...

Description The Safety and Care Planning Retreat is an experience focused around collectivizing care work and examining internal consent practices when engaging in this work. Aimed towards advocates, organizers, crisis responders, therapists, teachers, and lawyers — this offering engages participants in the process of creating a...

Description Harm is pervasive in communities and institutions, how an organization responds to the harm is its accountability in action. The six-hour Harm Systems Design retreat is great for organizational leaders, people from Human Resources or community accountability teams or entrepreneurs thinking about how to create...

Description The Liberatory Facilitation retreat is structured around the questions, “What does it take to be free together? And, what is the role of the facilitator / educator in supporting that freedom?” The six-hour retreat is great for anyone who facilitates learning experiences, whether they are...