We speak to the masses for the masses
We Speak
When we speak our goals are always to encourage people to challenge their stereotypes and often long-held beliefs about gender and racial inequality. For example, when we speak to folks about the fact that Black men are severely over-represented in jail and prison, by nearly 10 times, people often challenge us that the reason is because Black people commit more crime. We speak to amplify the voices of others, like Black Lives Matter–#BLM–and #MeToo
We speak in all kinds of settings
Especially Yours
We speak to other academics at conferences
International Conference on Solitary Confinement
We speak on college campuses to student and community audiences
We speak to the general public where people go to have intellectual debate, from bookstores to book festivals to libraries.
We speak to and through the media as experts on race and gender inequality in sports, the system of mass incarceration and sexual and intimate partner violence.
We speak through a variety of formats from formal presentations and lectures, to workshops to facilitated dialogs and discussions.
When we speak our goals are always to raise awareness through the presentation of rigorous, scientific data that reveals the ways in which inequalities of race and gender shape everything from the risk for perpetrating or being victimized by sexual or intimate partner violence to the risk of being locked up in a jail or prison, to the likelihood of getting a job coaching an NFL team.
When we speak our goals are always to encourage people to challenge their stereotypes and often long-held beliefs about gender and racial inequality. For example, when we speak to folks about the fact that Black men are severely over-represented in jail and prison, by nearly 10 times, people often challenge us that the reason is because Black people commit more crime.
We speak and facilitate discussions so that people can have a safe space to explore their beliefs, challenge their own ideas and world view, and come away with data they can incorporate into their next conversation with someone who also holds onto stereotypes they’ve been fed throughout their lives.
We speak to expose people to ideas or frameworks they may not be familiar with.
We speak to encourage lifelong learning!
We speak to promote racial and gender equity.
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We Will Help
Black History Month (February): We can speak about Policing Black Bodies….both literally and figuratively, everything from stop and frisk to mass incarceration, to bail and bond, the school to prison pipeline, abuses of Black women’s bodies, policing killings of unarmed Black people…names you know like George Floyd, Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin, to names you might not, like Natascha McKenna.
Women’s History Month (March): We can speak on all forms of gender based violence including sexual and intimate partner violence in general, as well as in social institutions including on college campuses, in sports, in prisons, the military, the Catholic Church, and in politics and hollywood. We can also speak about other forms of gender inequality including the gender wage gap and the gaps in the division of household labor.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) (October): Everyone focuses in October on breast cancer awareness. We’d like more people to wear purple and raise awareness about intimate partner violence! We can speak on all forms of gender based violence including sexual and intimate partner violence in general, as well as in social institutions including on college campuses, in sports, in prisons, the military, the Catholic Church, and in politics and hollywood.
Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) (April): We can speak on all forms of gender based violence including sexual and intimate partner violence in general, as well as in social institutions including on college campuses, in sports, in prisons, the military, the Catholic Church, and in politics and hollywood.
