Voices from Minnesota to California, with Shannon Gibney, Dr. Myrl Beam, and Cat Brooks
Tuesday, February 10, 1pm PST (3pm CST) Join us in the Conversations on Race and Policing series for a discussion with author, Shannon Gibney, and scholar, Dr. Myrl Beam, two voices from Minnesota who have experience in movements for justice and can help us understand recent developments there including mass detentions and killing of protestors by federal agents. Veteran activist and artist, Cat Brooks, will also join the conversation from Oakland.
Zoom at https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496
Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, and activist. She is author of many books, including The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption, which received a Michael L. Printz Honor and a Minnesota Book Award; See No Color and Dream Country, both winners of Minnesota Book Awards; Where We Come From (co-authored), winner of the 2023 Carter G. Woodson Award; Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight, and We Miss You, George Floyd. A Bush Artist and McKnight Writing Fellow, Gibney teaches at Minneapolis College, where she was named Educator of the Year in 2023. She lives with her two children in Minneapolis, where she is a sanctuary school team lead with Minneapolis Families for Public Schools (MFPS).
Myrl Beam is a teacher, scholar, and organizer based in South Minneapolis. He is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Women's, Gender, Sexuality Studies Department at Macalester College. The author of the book Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics, he is an oral historian that focuses on queer and trans movements for justice. Beam is currently working on a collaborative public history project called "The Long Fire at Lake and Minnehaha" that uses community oral history to explore the interconnected histories of activism that gave rise to the Uprising in 2020. That project was named the winner of the 2024 Arcus Places Prize, which celebrates public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment. Beam lives in South Minneapolis with his partner and two kids where he organizes with Minneapolis Families for Public Schools.
From her website (link). "Cat Brooks is host of Law & Disorder on KPFA (link) and a long-time performer, organizer, and activist. She played a central role in the struggle for justice for Oscar Grant, and spent the last decade working with impacted communities and families to rapidly respond to police violence and radically transform the ways our communities are policed and incarcerated. She is the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) and the Executive Director of The Justice Teams Network. Cat was also the runner-up in Oakland’s 2018 mayoral election, facing incumbent Libby Schaaf."
Series organizers (alphabetical) are Amber Broaden (CSUSB and CSU Dominguez Hills, Psychology), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Michael German (Brennan Center for Justice), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Dr. Jeremy Murray (CSUSB History), Matt Patino (Crafton Hills College Adjunct Faculty), Dr. Mary Texeira (CSUSB Sociology). Click here to view previous and upcoming panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series (link). Thanks to Project Rebound for their support of this event!