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SUMMARY:11/18 Bird\, Uncaged: Talk & Signing with Marlon Peterson
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to have writer\, educator\, and cultural work
 er Marlon Peterson visiting the bookspace for the third event in the Bla
 ck Memoirist Speaker Series\, put on by Tyler Campbell to complement his
  course\, Memoir in the Age of Black Lives Matter. Marlon’s book\, Bird 
 Uncaged\, charts his life from a childhood in Brooklyn to his incarcerat
 ion in the New York State Prison system\, to his abolitionist work imagi
 ning new visions of healing and justice. More about the book: From a lea
 ding prison abolitionist\, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brookl
 yn and surviving incarceration—and a call to break free from all the cag
 es that confine us. Marlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights\, rai
 sed by Trinidadian immigrants. Amid the routine violence that shaped his
  neighborhood\, Marlon became a high-achieving and devout child\, the sp
 ecter of the American dream opening up before him. But in the aftermath 
 of immense trauma\, he participated in a robbery that resulted in two mu
 rders. At nineteen\, Peterson was charged and later convicted. He served
  ten long years in prison. While incarcerated\, Peterson immersed himsel
 f in anti-violence activism\, education\, and prison abolition work. In 
 Bird Uncaged\, Peterson challenges the typical “redemption” narrative an
 d our assumptions about justice. With vulnerability and insight\, he unc
 overs the many cages—from the daily violence and trauma of poverty\, to 
 policing\, to enforced masculinity\, and the brutality of incarceration—
 created and maintained by American society. Bird Uncaged is a twenty-fir
 st-century abolitionist memoir\, and a powerful debut that demands a shi
 ft from punishment to healing\, an end to prisons\, and a new vision of 
 justice. More about Marlon: Marlon Peterson is the principal of The Prec
 edential Group\, a social justice consulting firm. He is host of the Dec
 arcerated Podcast\, a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity\, a membe
 r of the Aspen Global Leadership Network\, and a 2015 recipient of the S
 oros Justice Fellowship. Ebony Magazine has named him one of America's 1
 00 most influential and inspiring leaders in the Black community. His TE
 D Talk\, "Am I not human? a call for criminal justice reform\," has over
  1.2 million views. He contributed to Kiese Laymon's How to Slowly Kill 
 Yourself and Others in America and Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin's How
  We Fight White Supremacy. His writing has appeared in Ebony\, The Natio
 n\, USA Today\, Colorlines\, and more. A graduate of New York University
 \, he lives in Brooklyn and plays the steelpan during the summer.\n\nMor
 e info: https://www.possiblefuturesbooks.com/events\n\nhttps://findlocal
 .community/event/2182b2af-2709-4f42-a404-a44d545ce058
LOCATION:Possible Futures\, 318 Edgewood Ave\, New Haven\, CT 06511
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/2182b2af-2709-4f42-a404-a44d545ce05
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