All eyes must remain on Louisville until justice is won. The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies invites you to a virtual series that celebrates the work that Louisville’s local leaders are doing on behalf of our collective freedom. This series is an opportunity for the campus community to learn from their vision and find out how to join in the struggles for justice for Breonna Taylor and for the Black, brown, and poor residents of our city. Let’s dialogue about how we can work towards liberation through education, art, crossborder solidarity, law reform, and restorative justice.

We heartily thank our co-sponsors: Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society, Graduate Certificate in Diversity Literacy, Pan-African Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Women’s Center, and Pi Sigma Alpha.

Please register as soon as possible to help us get a headcount and our needs for translation services for ASL and Spanish: louisville.edu/wgs/justice

Out of the Classroom and into the Streets: Activism & Education’s Relationship To/With One Another
Date: October 29th 
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Brief Description: This panel discussion will focus on how education informs activism and vice versa.
Panelists:
Remi Dior, U of L Student and Community Activist
Talesha Wilson, U of L Alum and Community Activist 
Ahmad Washington, Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development, U of L 
Moderator: Jaison Gardner, Community Activist and Podcaster 
  
Imagining Our Way to Freedom: Art, Activism, and Worldmaking  
Date: November 5th 
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Brief Description: This panel discussion will focus on Black artists and Black Arts activism and how both have always been integral to social justice movements.
Panelists:
Sidney Monroe Williams, Assistant Professor in the Department of Theater Arts, U of L 
Hannah Drake, Louisville Poet & Activist 
Ramona Lindsey, Louisville Visual Artist & Senior Program Officer at the Community Foundation of Louisville
Moderator: Nefertiti Burton, Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at U of L
 
All of Us or None of Us: Connecting the Dots Between BLM in Louisville and the Americas
Date: November 12th 
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Brief Description: How do our struggles for social justice and freedom in Louisville intersect with and relate to social justice struggle throughout the hemisphere? This panel offers transnational approaches to activism and the movements for Black lives. 
Panelists:
Karen Moya, Adult Services Coordinator, Americana Center.
Sara Nuñez, Doctoral Student at U of L and former Director of the Cultural Center 
T. Gonzales, Founder of Louisville Trans Man (TBD)
Moderator: Cara K. Snyder, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, U of L
 
No Justice, No Peace: Exploring Breonna’s Law, Transformative Justice, and Defunding the Police
Date: November 19th 
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Brief Description: What does it mean to defund police? What did Breonna's Law do? What is transformative justice and how can it help us understand what defunding the police looks like?
Panelists:
Keturah Herring, ACLU, Breonna's Law
Attica Scott, State Representative
Ashanti Scott, U of L Student & Activist 
Moderator: Sadiqa Reynolds, Director of the Louisville Urban League