University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review
Symposium: CONVERGE! Reimagining the Movement to End Gender Violence
Full Issue
Prefatory Matter
Foreword
Introduction: CONVERGE! Reimagining the Movement to End Gender Violence
Donna Coker, Leigh Goodmark, and Marcia Olivo
Keynote
Plenary 1
Reflections and Analysis (Transcript)
Lavon Morris-Grant, Eesha Pandit, Rosana Araujo, Reina Fernández, and Reyna Gómez
Part I: Reimagining Gender Violence
Plenary 2—Redefining Gender Violence (Transcript)
Andrea Ritchie, Leigh Goodmark (moderator), Juanita Flores, Julie Goldscheid, and SpearIt
Gender Neutrality and the “Violence Against Women” Frame
Julie Goldscheid
Panel on Colonization, Culture, and Resistance (Transcript)
Sarah Deer, Zanita Fenton (moderator), Val Kalei Kanuha, and Eesha Pandit
Panel on Immigrant Rights, Women, and Gender Violence: Structural Violence and Organizing Strategies (Transcript)
María Rodriguez, Donna Coker, Lis-Marie Alvarado, Beatrice Bianchi Fasani, Ramandeep Kaur Mahal, and Rebecca Sharpless
Panel on Problematizing Assumptions About Gender Violence (Transcript)
Rashmi Goel, Tamara R. Lave, Elizabeth MacDowell, and Adele Morrison
Panel on Intersections of Gender, Economic, Racial, and Indigenous (In) Justice (Transcript)
Margaret Johnson, James Ptacek (moderator), Nicole Matthews, and Hillary Potter
Part II: Reimagining Responses to Gender Violence
Plenary 3—Harms of Criminalization and Promising Alternatives (Transcript)
Mimi Kim, Donna Coker, sujatha baliga, and Alisa Bierria
Panel on Alternatives to the Crime-Centered Approach to Gender Violence (Transcript)
C. Quince Hopkins, Staci Haines, Tiloma Jayasinghe, and Andrew Sta. Ana
Panel on the Possibilities and Limits of Criminal Justice Reform (Transcript)
Michelle Kaminsky, Leigh Goodmark, Connie Burk, and Sandra S. Park
Equal Protection for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence: From Criminalization to Law Enforcement Accountability
Sandra S. Park
Building Towards Transformative Justice at Sakhi for South Asian Women
Soniya Munshi, Bhavana Nancherla, and Tiloma Jayasinghe
Finding the Middle Ground: Reimagining Responses to Women’s Use of Force
Lisa Young Larance and Susan L. Miller
Panel on Sex Trafficking (Transcript)
Aziza Ahmed, Cyra Choudhury (moderator), Sienna Baskin, and Sandy Skelaney
Panel on the Violence of the Legal System (Transcript)
Joan Meier, James Ptacek (moderator), Angela Diaz-Vidaillet, Alesha Durfee, and Wayne Thomas
“Usually It’s Something in the Writing”: Reconsidering the Narrative Requirement for Protection Order Petitions
Alesha Durfee
Part III: Reimagining Mobilization, Action, and Pedagogy
Plenary 4—Mobilization (Transcript)
Caroline Bettinger-López, Quanita Toffee (moderator), Terra Slavin, Nan Stoops, and Cindy Wiesner
Panel on Organizing Campaigns (Transcript)
Cathy Albisa, Kelly Miller (moderator), Ted Bunch, Jodeen Olguín-Tayler, and Lumarie Orozco
Panel on New Possibilities for Reframing Work to End Gender Based Violence (Transcript)
Marcia Olivo, Monique Hoeflinger (moderator), Neil Irwin, and Jackie Payne
Panel on Beyond the Rape Exception: Using Law and Movement Building to Ensure Reproductive Health and Justice to All Gender Violence Survivors (Transcript)
Sara Ainsworth, Jamie Vanaria (moderator), Jessica Gonzáles-Rojas, Lillian Hewko, and Angela Hooton
Interview—Caroline Bettinger-Lopez and Marleine Bastien on the Fight to Stop Gender Violence: From Haiti to Miami
Caroline Bettinger-López and Marleine Bastien
Why Opposing Hyper-Incarceration Should Be Central to the Work of the Anti-Domestic Violence Movement
Donna Coker and Ahjané D. Macquoid
Panel on Campus and Youth Respond to Gender Violence (Transcript)
Mary Anne Franks, Laura Dunn, Rebecca Wyss, and Jessica Williams
Panel on Social Justice Pedagogy and Academy/Community Collaboration (Transcript)
Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda, Etiony Aldarondo, Ivon Mesa, Natalia Villegas, and Deborah M. Wiessman
Rethinking a New Domestic Violence Pedagogy
Deborah M. Weissman