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Saturday, September 5
 

10:00am CDT

Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series)
Saturday September 5, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
As governments retreat from care, and health increasingly becomes a signifier of discipline—rather than provision—fitness, disability, fatness, illness, Blackness, impairment, and bodily capacity are mobilized into measures of moral worth and political belonging. This panel examines how health, disability, body size, and race are instrumentalized by the state and being reorganized under health fascism. Da’Shaun L. Harrison, Beatrice Adler-Bolton, and Artie Vierkant will discuss what these transformations reveal about the changing relationship between capitalism, the state, and everyday life.
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Beatrice Adler-Bolton is a disabled and chronically ill agitator and independent researcher. She is the co-author of Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (Verso, 2022) and a co-host of the Death Panel podcast.


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Artie Vierkant

Artie Vierkant is the co-author of Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (Verso, 2022) and a co-host, as well as the editor and producer, of the Death Panel podcast. 
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Saturday September 5, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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12:00pm CDT

Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides
Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Join award-winning poet and performer Saul Williams for a discussion of his new book, Song My Mother Taught Me: Why The Artist Must Take Sides, a clear-eyed exploration of radical poetry, art, and the role of the artist in these times.
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Saul Williams

For nearly three decades, writer, musician, poet, director, and actor Saul Williams has occupied a singular place in Black culture, resisting the confines of genre across music, literature and film, and using art as a transformative device.

Raised between church traditions, hip hop, revolutionary literature and the liberating chaos of downtown poetry scenes, Williams learned early that speaking over music could carry the same emotional force as singing. He traces the lineage through Black church sermons, through... Read More →
Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Grant Park AB

3:00pm CDT

Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments
Saturday September 5, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Black feminist thinkers and organizers have historically generated our most powerful frameworks and resources for defense against the far right and for remaking the world. Today, as neoliberal conditions give rise to new fascisms and attacks on our people, the Black feminist lineage provides strength and direction for struggles across a range of contexts, from the arts to municipal politics, public employment, and higher education. The ongoing work of Scholars for Social Justice is one important site of Black feminist organizing that will be discussed in this session.
Saturday September 5, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Grant Park AB

5:00pm CDT

Spirit of Justice: Building Beloved Community, Embodying Revolutionary Love
Saturday September 5, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
What is freedom struggle beyond resisting political systems and improving material conditions? This program, organized by Spirit of Justice - a new spiritual home outside of traditional religion for people committed to freedom - explores this question. Through live music, collective ritual, artistic expression, and intimate dialogue, we will celebrate, grieve, and be inspired to not only change the world but to transform ourselves.
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nyle fort

Rev. Dr. Nyle Fort is a minister, organizer, and scholar who believes in the transformative power of love, servant leadership, and beloved community. With over 15 years of experience in community organizing, faith-based activism, and large-scale social movements, he has organized in cities, on college... Read More →
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Michelle Alexander

Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, legal scholar, and the author of the bestselling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, which helped to shift the national discourse on the U.S. criminal punishment system and inspired racial justice organizing nationwide.  She is a former associate professor of law at Stanford Law School and The Ohio State University, and the former director of the Racial Justice... Read More →
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Saul Williams

For nearly three decades, writer, musician, poet, director, and actor Saul Williams has occupied a singular place in Black culture, resisting the confines of genre across music, literature and film, and using art as a transformative device.

Raised between church traditions, hip hop, revolutionary literature and the liberating chaos of downtown poetry scenes, Williams learned early that speaking over music could carry the same emotional force as singing. He traces the lineage through Black church sermons, through... Read More →
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Rami Nashashibi

Dr. Rami Nashashibi is a MacArthur Fellow, sociologist trained at the University of
Chicago, and the founding executive director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network
(IMAN). Since its founding in 1997, IMAN has fostered health, wellness, and healing on
Chicago's South Side and... Read More →
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Saturday September 5, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Grant Park AB
 
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