Panel Talk, Discussion and Celebration; Centring Radical Accountability in a Messed Up World

Celebrating the launch of our book; Radical Accountability in a Messed Up World - we invite you to join us for an evening of discussions, connections and dreaming better systems of care and integrity into existence. 

In the current state of the world, where accountability is absent or failing and male violence is normalised, practicing radical accountability and priorising community care is fundamental.

We've spent the last year writing a book about radical accountability in the landscape of patriarchy and male violence. We want to share the reasons behind this book and explore how abolitionist practices of accountability and care are acts of love for us all. 

We will be joined by friends and comrades; those who are working in the trenches and on the frontline of dismantling patriarchy and building better systems of care and healing. Through panel discussions, we will explore how radical accountability for male violence and abolitionist care can be an antidote to the mess we are in. 

There will be time and space to ask questions, share experiences and ideas, plot, hatch plans and connect with others. No one person has all the answers - this event is about reminding ourselves that building a more accountable, less harmful world is a collective community action. 

Speakers joining; 

Lewis Wedlock; masculinities educator and social commenter Lewis Wedlock has spent years on the ground in schools and educational spaces working with young men to unpack and explore their masculinity and relationship to patriarchy.

Almas Talib from Abolitionist Healing; this collective focuses their work on anti-oppressive, community centred care for distress and trauma that works with abolitionist and disability justice frameworks. 

Yaz Brien; our friend Yaz, who has spent many years on the frontline and deep in community organising and building, will be guiding this conversation. 

Wednesday 17th June
7pm - 10pm

Malcolm X Centre

141 City Rd, 
St Paul's, 
Bristol 
BS2 8YH

Tickets are £8

Free wine & drinks

Hard copies of the book will be for sale at the event for £15.

If you preorder our book in advance (sleec.bigcartel.com) you can get a half price ticket (simply preorder at big cartel and forward the confirmation email to [email protected])

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Access 

Doors open - 7pm 

Panel discussion - 7.30pm

Q&A - 8.15pm

Connections, plotting and collective resourcing - 8.45pm

Malcolm X is step free with ground floor access and an accessible toilet for a wheelchair with grab rails. The entrance from the car park is wheelchair accessible. 

There is a small car park in the Malcolm X centre but it is ticketed. 

Please note - Blue badge holders who would like to use the Malcolm X car park are required to buy a ticket. (If you are a blue badge holder we will reimburse this) 

If you have any symptoms of covid or feel unwell, we please ask that you don’t attend. Please do a covid test before coming, if you are able to. We will provide rapid tests at the event and masks if anyone needs one.