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The So hello and welcome to the session called care washing, carcerality disguised as social welfare.

This session is about how the rhetorics of care, support, and empathy

are often deployed to expand and reinforce carcerality.

Our panelists today are Ma'an Mohapatra, Tracy Rosenthal, and Victoria Law. And my name is Beatrice

Arthur Bolton. I'm a co-host of the Death Panel podcast, who is sponsoring this session. So I'm

going to just briefly introduce the hosts in a moment. This session will explore how the

rhetorics of care, support, and empathy are often deployed

to make expansions of carcerality appear innocuous or even an expansion of social welfare or

public health. We're going to discuss how to evaluate and identify programs that disguise

carcerality under the pretense of care and how care washing can be resisted.

Together we're going to try and form a dialogue on how collaboration between abolition and disability justice can help us push for changes that help meet people's needs and keep people free.

Now I'm going to introduce our speakers.

First we've got Mon Mojapatra.

Mon is a co-author of Eight to Abolition,

a founding coordinator of the No New Jails Network,

and an organizer at Community Justice Exchange.

Then we have Tracy Rosenthal.

Tracy is a co-founder of the LA Tenants Union

and co-authored the book, Abolish Rent,

How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.

Victoria Law is a freelance journalist and the author of several books about incarceration,

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