About this episode

Dean Spade is joined by Andrea Ritchie to discuss her work on policing and criminalization affecting marginalized communities.

Send us a message Dean is joined by longtime collaborator and dear friend Andrea Ritchie, author of Practicing New Worlds, Invisible No More, No More Police, and other essential books and toolkits that you can find linked below and on the Interrupting Criminalization website. Andrea has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating, and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people for the past three decades. She talks with ...

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Host: Dean Spade

Guest: Andrea Ritchie

Topics covered

• policing
• criminalization
• Black women
• trans rights
• advocacy
• organizing

Keywords

• policing
• criminalization
• Black women
• trans rights
• advocacy
• Andrea Ritchie

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Interrupting Criminalization

Books & works: Practicing New Worlds, Invisible No More, No More Police

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