Appalachian Medical Solidarity and Asheville Bail Fund host a discussion of All This Safety is Killing Us, the first abolitionist anthology that focuses on healthcare!

All This Safety is Killing Us is a multi-discipline, multimedia guide to abolition through the lens of healthcare and medicine—featuring writings and artwork from 10+ incarcerated and post-detention activists and others. Discussion will examine the book as well as our own community's health and well-being affected by over policing and the consistently deadly county detention center.

With contributions from scholars, activists and artists, All This Safety is Killing Us marks a radical break from punitive frameworks. Special features include:

Contributions from nurses, doctors, doulas, public health workers, physical therapists, acupuncturists, and disability justice workers.
Woodcuts, comics, mini-zines, infographics, and drawings by community activists, queer and trans/gender expansive-focused writers, current prisoners, deportees, and survivors of state-sanctioned violence.
Interviews with leading abolition and health justice scholars.

Ronica Mukerjee DNP, MsA is a family and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner as well as an acupuncturist. Dr. Mukerjee is currently an assistant professor at Columbia University and provides both hormonal care and psychiatric care for trans and gender diverse patients. Previously they livede and worked in Tijuana, Mexico co-directing a refugee health organization she co-founded. Dr Mukerjee is passionate about border-police-prison abolition as well as racial, economic and health care justice in LGBTQIA+, refugees and migrant communities, for people with substance use disorders, and for people living with HIV.

Appalachian Medical Solidarity is a network of people and groups across the Southern Appalachian region involved in medical care and support of communities in crises and struggle.

The Asheville Community Bail Fund is community-powered and informed by diverse visions for restorative and transformative justice, toward a world without prisons and police. Learn more at avlcommunitybail.carrd.co

Content Warning: This event may include discussion of incarceration and medical trauma.