Publications, Media & Collaborations
Popaganda Podcast
Do you love reality television, true crime, memes, TikTok and all other forms of pop culture? Are you also interested in communal care outside of harmful state systems? Do you struggle to reconcile the two?
Join Tashmica Torok and Shannon Perez-Darby on Popaganda, as we dive deep into our love of transformative justice, pop culture and where the two meet.
Come for the Pop Culture, Stay for the Abolition
Beyond the Bars 2023 Seeding Justice
Addressing Conflict and Harm in Social Movements Plenary
Reports Are Not Supports: Mandatory Reporting Harm Reduction
Exploring why mandatory reporting harm reduction is essential to re-examining the root causes of and preventing child sexual abuse. In collaboration with Just Beginnings Collaborative and the Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral Project.
To access a version of the recording with Zoom captioning & full ASL interpretation, visit: tinyurl.com/MRNNCaptionASL
Image by Laura Chow Reeve of Radical Roadmaps
Divest! Invest?
A panel discussion exploring what happens after we defund the police. Facilitated by Shannon Perez-Darby panelists Angélica Cházaro, Dean Spade, Kiyomi Fujikawa, and John Page utilize Seattle-based lessons to explore how we can transform criminal legal system divestment into community-owned investments.
Self-Accountability and Movement Building
This workshop happened in the September of 2020, as part of the Abolitionist Toolbox series and in collaboration with Project Nia .
Accountability is a human skill, not something that happens to bad people. How many times have movements been pulled apart not because of external forces but because of internal conflict and strife? So often we ask how others can be accountable without first looking internally and asking, "How have I been accountable?" Join us to explore the role self-accountability plays in building strong, sustainable movements. We'll discuss how self-accountability—that is accountability with and for ourselves—is essential in building accountable communities and the movements to sustain them.
Graphic Notes provided by Laura Chow Reeve (aka Radical Roadmaps)
Accountable Communities Series
In collaboration with Mariame Kaba, Kiyomi Fujikawa and the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
Publications
Shannon Perez-Darby is the author of a number of articles centering domestic violence, accountability and queer and trans communities. See below for a list of publications.
Podcasts
Are Our Movements Cults?
In this episode, Jaime Grant interviews transformative justice activist Shannon Perez-Darby about cults. Together we ponder the cult-like aspects of queer and feminist movement organizations – litmus testing for loyalty; silences in the face of abusive practices; and working to the point of exhaustion, among them. We discuss both the horrors of the NXIVM cult and how abusers undermine our realities and steal our lives. We go back over the activist classic "The Revolution Starts at Home," to which Shannon contributed with her ground-breaking article "The Secret Joy of Accountability." We explore the all-important question: How do we keep our commitments to our movements, while keeping our commitments to our individual and collective well-being? Join us!
Making Polyamory Work: What if my Partner’s Relationship is Abusive?
Libby invites Shannon Perez-Darby to answer a listener question about what to do when you're in a relationship with someone who is in what appears to be an abusive relationship.
By the Sound
Activist and author Shannon Perez-Darby speaks on discord in activist communities, patterns of domestic violence, creating accountability, the role of government & law, and developing transformative justice.
Polyamory Weekly Episode 418: Emotional Abuse
Shannon Perez-Darby shares her advice on how to recognize abuse of all kinds and how to respond when you or someone you love might be surviving emotional abuse.