Events

This virtual monthly series is a collaboration between Repair, the UCLA Disability Studies program, & the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy & Ethics at USC Gould School of Law.

We'll be screening the film, "Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty" (runtime 32 minutes), followed by conversation with the audience. With special guests Mana Hayakawa, Amanda Apgar, and Quinn O'Connor.

Register here.

Join us on Thursday, October 15th at 4pm PST/ 7pm EST for the first event in the series, "Imagining Change: Film and Dialogue About Disability, Racism, Violence, Gender and Power". This virtual monthly series is a collaboration between Repair, the UCLA Disability Studies program, & the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy & Ethics at USC Gould School of Law.

We'll be screening the film, "The Released" (runtime 54 minutes), followed by conversation by the audience. Welcome remarks and facilitation by Victoria Marks and Beth Ribet.

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Californians have endured a statewide ban on race- and gender-based affirmative action policies since the passage of Proposition 209, which is widely recognized for its devastating impact on advancing racial justice in labor and education. The 2019 court case against Harvard University alleging that affirmative action policies discriminate against Asian-Americans amplifies the need for improved public understanding of affirmative action policies as legal remedies to recognize and dismantle racial harm. In November, Proposition 16 would restore affirmative action in CA. Join us for this panel discussing the legacies of Proposition 209 and the promise of Proposition 16.

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A Benefit for Repair

Join the Repair community on Valentine's Day Weekend for workshops and programming about love, touch and joy! Register here.

A training event for Chaplains, with speakers including Repair Director Beth Ribet, Kandee Lewis (Positive Results Corporation), Susie Hess (Trauma Informed LA), Samia Bano (Academy of Thriving), and Cantor Fran Chalin. Co-sponsored with the St. Camillus Center for Spiritual Care and Southern California ACPE Centers. For registration information and fees, please contact the St. Camillus Center for Spiritual Care at 323-225-4461 x111 or see instructions on the event flyer.

Transformation: Lectures, Conversations, and Storytelling About Healing and Social Action

Stories by Ariel Hernandez, Catherine Retana, Leidy Gonzalez and Gabriela Sanchez Meraz

Welcome, Introductions and vocal performance by Gladdys Uribe

Panelists will address the rise in visible White Nationalist and Nazi mobilization in the U.S. The participants include progressive Jewish and Muslim people active in social justice and interfaith communities in Los Angeles.

Welcome and Introductions by Tasneem Noor

Transformation: Lectures, Conversations, and Storytelling About Healing and Social Action

Stories by Aurora Levins Morales, Robin Kelley, Ariel Hernandez, and Everlyn Hunter

Welcome and Introductions by Elyn Saks

Introductions by: Reverend Chris Ponnet, M.Div., BCC Director, Spiritual Care at LA County & University of Southern California

Transformation: Lectures, Conversations, and Storytelling About Healing and Social Action

Stories by Kandee Rochelle Lewis, Anam Ella Durrani, Shawna Charles

Welcome and Introductions by Rachel Lee 

Opening lecture by Beth Ribet

with Dr. Beth Ribet, PhD, JD, Co-Director of Repair

In this lecture and dialogue, Dr. Beth Ribet, who will be introduced by Professor Claudia Peña, will address the framing and representation of people in systems of prostitution in popular media, academic theory, political discourse, and in the criminal justice system. Within this discussion, Dr.

with Dr. Beth Ribet, PhD, JD, Co-Director of Repair

Recent white supremacist and Nazi rallies and upris-ing in the U.S. continue to capture public attention, and generate questions about the foundations of racism and anti-Semitism in U.S. institutions and history. Dr. Beth Ribet will share some commentary on Nazism in the U.S. during and since the 1940s, its relationship to U.S. white supremacy, and implications in the contemporary moment.

In the Interests of Justice: Bringing Theory into Practice

In this talk, Ruha Benjamin discusses advances in genomic science and explores questions or racial difference, scientific objectivity, medical trustworthiness, and social justice. Drawing upon developments in Mexico, South Africa, India, and the United States, she illustrates how political and scientific claims are connected in the day to day struggle of groups' demanding rights and redress.

This workshop provides an overview of the skills and aims involved in healthcare advocacy. The curriculum includes strategies for addressing inequities and discrimination as they manifest in individual experiences of healthcare.

In the Interests of Justice: Bringing Theory into Practice

Dr. Sandy Grande is an Associate Professor and Co-Chair of Education Department at the Connecticut College. Grande is the newly appointed Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at the college. She also serves as a member of the Executive Board of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA). She received her BFA from Syracuse University and her MA and PhD from Kent State.

Why do communities of color, survivors of violence, refugees and immigrant workers experience high rates of cancer? What do we do about the losses of loved ones due to poor healthcare? How can we start to address cancer as political, and preventing or surviving cancer as part of the work of racial, gender, disability, health, and economic justice? This workshop is part of a series on "Politicizing Health and Wellness" sponsored by Repair, a health and disability justice organization based in Los Angeles.

Free and open to the public.

Translating Disability Studies into Spheres of Policy and Practice

Ellen Samuels is a longtime disability activist and writer.

Translating Disability Studies into Spheres of Policy and Practice

Therí A. Pickens is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Bates College. Her research focuses on Arab American and African American literatures and cultures, Disability Studies, philosophy, and literary theory. She authored New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States, which asks: How does a story about embodied experience transform from mere anecdote to social and political critique?

UCLA Law Review Symposium

Repair partnered with the UCLA Law Review as a sponsor of the 2015 Law Review Symposium, “Examining the Roots of Human Trafficking and Exploitation," on January 29-30 at the UCLA Campus.