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Announcing our first in-person workshop! Join Dr. Orisanmi Burton at Red Emma’s bookstore in Baltimore, MD for a reading and discussion of Walid Daqqa’s essay, “Consciousness Molded or the Re-identification of Torture.” Walid Daqqa (1961-2024) was a Palestinian political prisoner and writer who was imprisoned for 38 years before passing away in April of this year. Widely considered the longest-held Palestinian prisoner to be held in “Israeli” prisons, Daqqa wrote novels, plays, and political theory that drew attention to “Israeli” prisons as a technology to shape and remold Palestinian consciousness in its image. What might Daqqa’s analysis teach us about “U.S.” prisoncrats and their methods of carceral warfare and counterinsurgency in a post-Attica world?

Note: This workshop is limited to 40 participants.

Dr. Orisanmi Burton is Assistant Professor of anthropology at American University and author of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt (UC Press, 2023). His research examines the imbrication of grassroots resistance and state repression and explores the collision of Black-led movements for social, political, and economic transformation with state infrastructures of militarized policing, surveillance, and imprisonment.