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Dec 2022
1h 27m

Committing to the Bit

Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb
About this episode

The girlies discuss the politics of involuntary commitment in light of a recent New York City law. With special guest and disability activist Stef Kaufman, they get into the nuances of the harmful correlation between homelessness, mental illness and crime, and discuss ways to organize towards a better future.


Read some of Stef's work below:

Visions for a Liberated Anti-Carceral Crisis Response

We Don't Need Cops to Become Social Workers: We Need Peer Support + Community Response Networks




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