🌟 **Join Us for The Criminalization of Self-Defense** 🌟

📅 **Date:** Thursday, November 20, 2025

🕕 **Time:** 6:00 - 8:30 PM

📍 **Location:** The Community Art Center, 119 Windsor Street, Cambridge, Central Sq

The Black Response and Impact Boston are co-hosting a vital community education event focused on the criminalization of self-defense, particularly among Black, Brown, and marginalized survivors. Together, we will explore how systems punish survival and imagine new models of safety rooted in collective care and resistance.

👥 **Featured Speakers:**

- Prof. Alisa Bierria- Survived and Punished / UCLA 

- Meg Stone - Impact Boston

- Kishana Smith-Osei - MA Women of Color Network

- Lea Kayali - Palestinian Youth Movement Boston

Join us for insightful presentations, engaging discussions, and a chance to connect individual safety practices to larger movements for justice and political change.

✨ **FREE food and childcare will be provided!** ✨

📚 Books by our speakers will be available for sale, courtesy of Porter Square Book Store.

This event is open to all community members and is co-sponsored by:

- Boston Sex Workers Union

- NAACP Mystic Valley

- Black Alliance for Peace

- Families for Justice as Healing

- BDS Boston

- Transition House

Let’s come together to support survivors and advance community-led approaches to safety and accountability.See you there! 🖤💚