Centre for Ethics's video: sayhername Breonna Taylor: Race Ethics Justice w Idil Abdillahi Beverly Bain El Jones

► For the latest events, projects, podcasts, and more from the Centre for Ethics, visit http://ethics.utoronto.ca” … Breonna Taylor! Race, Ethics & “Justice”? – A Dialogue with Beverly Bain, Idil Abdillahi, and El Jones With the recent grand jury decision to indict on a lesser charge of “wanton endangerment” in the death of Breonna Taylor, there is an urgency to examine the implications of these actions to fully understand future demands for justice. What does it mean to understand state-violence on, and against Black women’s bodies, and personhood, as a “wanton” act? What is the historicity of such a designation that exonerates the perpetrator of said violence against Black women’s personhood? “Wanton” as adjective, is defined as “of a cruel or violent action – that is deliberate and unprovoked.” Posing these questions invites us all, those that are willing, to consider conversations about the confluence of anti-black violence as it manifests in not only legal procedure and deliberation but also within popular discourse. Centering Black women’s critical work on law-enforcement and the carceral state, our invited panelists will engage in a critical dialogue. Idil Abdillahi, School of Disability Studies, Ryerson University Beverly Bain, Women and Gender Studies, Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga El Jones is a poet, educator, journalist and advocate, fifth Poet Laureate of Halifax, former 15th Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University