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History You Should Know: Mariame Kaba

In this episode of History You Should Know, we learn about Mariame Kaba -- an organizer, educator and curator whose work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, transformative justice, and supporting youth leadership development.

Learn more:

·         Being MK - Mariame Kaba's Personal Website

·         Project NIA

·         Interrupting Criminalization 

·         Survived and Punished

·         Just Practice Collaborative

·         Hope Is a Discipline: Mariame Kaba on Dismantling the Carceral State

·         Is it time to reimagine justice and accountability for sexual misconduct?

·         From “Me Too” to “All of Us”: Organizing to End Sexual Violence, Without Prisons

·         Reimagining Justice: An Interview with Mariame Kaba

·         Mariame Kaba: Everything Worthwhile Is Done With Other People

·         Mariame Kaba wants us to imagine a future without prisons

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History You Should Know: The Combahee River Collective

In this episode of History You Should Know, we learn about The Combahee River Collective, who are best known for publishing the Combahee River Collective Statement in 1977. The Collective used an approach to community organizing that centered the most marginalized group in their liberation work, and laid the foundation for the theory of intersectionality.

Learn more:

• (1977) The Combahee River Collective Statement
• Combahee River Collective (1974-1980)
• This Boston Collective Laid The Groundwork For Intersectional Black Feminism 
• The Combahee River Collective 

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Episode 23: Everything You Need to Know About SAAM 2021 from NSVRC’s Resource On the Go

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This episode is from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s podcast, Resource on the Go. During this episode, NSVRC staff explore this year’s campaign, We Can Build Safe Online Spaces, and share resources and ideas about how to get involved during SAAM. 

Learn more:

• SAAM Website
• National SAAM Event List
• #30DaysofSAAM Instagram Challenge
• Day of Action
• Resource on the Go Podcast
• National Sexual Violence Resource Center

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History You Should Know: Loretta Ross

In this episode of History You Should Know, we learn about Loretta J. Ross, a powerful advocate who is an award-winning, nationally recognized expert on racial justice, women’s rights, reproductive justice, and human rights.

Learn more:

• Loretta J. Ross website
• Loretta Ross: Reproductive Justice Pioneer, Co-Founder of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
• Paying it Forward Instead of Looking Backwards
• SisterSong Women of Color Justice Collective
• National Organization for Women (NOW)
• Episode 2 of PA Centered: Uprooting Racism with Paul Kivel and Loretta J. Ross

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History You Should Know: Ida B. Wells-Barnett

In this episode of History You Should Know, we learn about Ida B. Wells-Barnett, an investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement, most known for her organizing of anti-lynching campaigns.

Learn more:

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• #MeToo Won’t Succeed If We Don’t Listen to Black Women
• Ida B. Wells and the Lynching of Black Women
• Ida B. Wells offered the solution to police violence more than 100 years ago
• Lynching in America: Confronting the Legal of Racial Terror (Equal Justice Initiative)

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Episode 22: Overcoming barriers and bias with Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Angelita Olowu

During this episode, we are joined by Forensic Nursing Specialist, Angelita Olowu from the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN), to hear about her experience as a Black Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE). Angelita shares practical suggestions about how to diversify the forensic nursing field and support people of color in these roles, in order to provide the best level of care for survivors.

Learn more:

• Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE)
• International Association of Forensic Nurses

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History You Should Know: Recy Taylor & Rosa Parks

In this episode of History You Should Know, we highlight Recy Taylor and Rosa Parks. Most people know about Rosa Parks’ role in the civil rights movement, but don’t know about her role as a sexual assault investigator, where she fought for justice for many survivors, including Recy Taylor.

Learn more:

• Recy Taylor, Rosa Parks, and the Struggle for Racial Justice
• Before the Bus, Rosa Parks Was a Sexual Assault Investigator
• Rosa Parks: The Forgotten Advocate of Sexual Abuse
• Hidden Pattern Of Rape Helped Stir Civil Rights Movement
• The Rape of Recy Taylor
• Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin

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History You Should Know: Tarana Burke

In this episode of History You Should Know, we learn about Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo Movement. Tarana is a survivor, advocate, activist, and community organizer who continues to make history and inspire us.

 

Learn more:

• me too. Movement
• We, As Ourselves 
• Tarana Burke, Founder of the #MeToo Movement
• The Woman Who Began the #MeToo Movement Was a Philly Activist
• The White Feminist Version of #MeToo is in Ruins for Many Reasons
• #MeToo founder Tarana Burke blasts the movement for ignoring poor women

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Episode 21: Workplace Sexual Harassment

Do you know what your options are if you’ve been sexually harassed at work? In this episode, we learn from Staff Attorneys Konrad Jarzyna and Lisa Matukaitis about your rights and the steps you can take if you’ve experienced harassment while on the job. For confidential and legal assistance, contact PCAR’s Sexual Violence Legal Assistance Project (SVLAP) at 717-901-6784.

Learn more:

• Reporting Workplace Sexual Harassment in Pennsylvania
• EEOC: What to Do if you Believe you have been Harassed at Work
• PCAR’s Respect at Work™ Training

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History You Should Know: Celia & Joan Little

In this episode of History You Should Know, we learn about two important women and the significance of their court cases. Celia, an enslaved Black woman who was convicted of murdering her slave owner, and Joan Little, the first woman in US history to be acquitted after using deadly force to resist sexual assault.

Learn more:

• Missouri v. Celia, a Slave
• Celia, A Slave, Trial (1855): An Account
• The Celia Project 
• Aug. 15: 1975: Joan Little Acquitted
• Joan Little: Survived and Punished
• Joan Little: Dramatic New Footage Casts Light on Historic Black Panther Activism
• Survived and Punished website
• Wilmington Ten

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