with panelists Amita Swadhin, RJ Maccani and Jenani Srijeyanthan

On Saturday, November 19, 2022 a panel discussion was held at Playwrights Horizons. Please note this event was recorded live, so listeners will experience some irregularity in audio quality in listening to this playback, but we wanted to make the entirety of the conversation available for our audiences to listen to. It has only been lightly edited for volume, not for content.

For a partial transcript of selected highlights from this discussion, as well as bios of each participant, please visit the event website here. If you require a full transcript for accessibility reasons, please contact us at footnotepodcast@phnyc.org. To read more about the other events in this series and for program curator Sivan Battat's curatorial framing essay, please click here.

When harm happens, how do we hold it within community? What does a survivor-centered justice process look like, and how might it support healing? What modules exist outside of carceral and punitive systems to address harm and support survivors? This conversation with activists, academics, and abolitionists discusses forgiveness and transformative justice after sexual harm at the personal and collective levels.

*The title of this panel is derived from Saidiya Hartman, via Mariame Kaba.