Author Events James Kilgore
october
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The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration book talk with James Kilgore and Vic Liu at the Education Justice
Event Details
The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration book talk with James Kilgore and Vic Liu at the Education Justice Project at University of Illinois Champaign Urbana on October 17th. Details TBA.
About this event
James Kilgore is a formerly incarcerated researcher and activist based in Urbana, Illinois. He is the author of six books, including the National Book Foundation Award-winning A People’s Guide to Mass Incarceration. He drafted four of those volumes during his six and a half years in California prisons. He is a research fellow at MediaJustice, where he founded the Challenging E-Carceration project and is director of advocacy and outreach for FirstFollowers Reentry Program in Champaign, Illinois.
Vic Liu is an artist and author who uses design to communicate complex information with empathy. She is the author of Bang! Masturbation for All Genders and Abilities. Her work includes: materials mapping the fragmentation of the Syrian Opposition (circulated within the state department), pamphlets on womxn workers’ rights in collaboration with the 2020 Center for Urban Pedagogy Making Policy Public Fellowship & Legal Momentum (distributed through community hubs in New York State); a physical toolkit for making discussions around birth control more demonstrable (distributed through the Baltimore City Health Department); and more.
Time
All Day (Thursday)
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The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration book talk with James Kilgore and Vic Liu in Chicago, IL on October 19th hosted
Event Details
The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration book talk with James Kilgore and Vic Liu in Chicago, IL on October 19th hosted by Walls Turned Sideways, an art and community space dedicated to people impacted by incarceration, with a focus on collective liberation, healing, and abolition.
James Kilgore is a formerly incarcerated researcher and activist based in Urbana, Illinois. He is the author of six books, including the National Book Foundation Award-winning A People’s Guide to Mass Incarceration. He drafted four of those volumes during his six and a half years in California prisons. He is a research fellow at MediaJustice, where he founded the Challenging E-Carceration project and is director of advocacy and outreach for FirstFollowers Reentry Program in Champaign, Illinois.
Vic Liu is an artist and author who uses design to communicate complex information with empathy. She is the author of Bang! Masturbation for All Genders and Abilities. Her work includes: materials mapping the fragmentation of the Syrian Opposition (circulated within the state department), pamphlets on womxn workers’ rights in collaboration with the 2020 Center for Urban Pedagogy Making Policy Public Fellowship & Legal Momentum (distributed through community hubs in New York State); a physical toolkit for making discussions around birth control more demonstrable (distributed through the Baltimore City Health Department); and more.
Time
All Day (Saturday)