August 8, 2021 3:00 PM
3 - 4.30PM
With input from Bent Bars, Glasgow Prisoner Solidarity and artist Thomas Abercromby, we’ll explore prison abolition, why it remains a queer issue, and different ways of building community and solidarity.
The Bent Bars Project is a letter-writing project for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, gender-variant, intersex, and queer prisoners in Britain. The project was founded in 2009, responding to a clear need to develop stronger connections and build solidarity between LGBTQ communities inside and outside prison walls.
Glasgow Prisoner Solidarity are a small group of people in Scotland working together inside and outside of prison to get support to those inside who need it most.
Thomas Abercromby is an artist and curator based in Glasgow. His current project, School of Abolition, is an informal alternative learning programme that uses contemporary art and activism to challenge Scotland’s prison industrial complex and the ways in which we respond to harm and crime without resorting to further policing or imprisonment.
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