Project LETS

06/30/2025

06/06/2025

We are delighted to announce that Talila A. Lewis will be the keynote presenter at our 16th International Disability Law Summer School.

Lewis is a multilingual abolitionist, archivist, artist, linguist, educator, writer, griot, movement strategist, community lawyer, among other things. As a Black q***r disabled person from the Deep South who grew up and lives all over the world, Lewis uses several spoken, signed/tactile, and other embodied languages. Born into a family of proud Black educators, clergy, artists, soldiers, and laborers, Lewis is a very proud legacy of the Black Southern griot and recitation traditions. By training, Lewis is a professor, attorney, orator (written-signed-spoken), multi-disciplinary artist, athlete, and community organizer, among other things.

For the past twenty years, Lewis’s work primarily focused on: (1) disrupting and abolishing the medical-carceral-impoverishment industrial complex; (2) mapping and clarifying past and present links between ableism and all other forms of oppression and violence (especially focused on the intersections of ableism with anti-Black/Indigenous racism, and state/corporate repression, oppression, dispossession.); and (3) building power within and solidarity across multiply-marginalized communities. For instance, Lewis spent the past two decades supporting and freeing multiply-marginalized disabled people from various sites of confinement the world over (e.g., penal, medical, algorithmic, trade publishing, etc.).

*Lewis is genderfluid and generally does not use any pronouns. Please use Talila or Lewis in place of pronouns.

This year’s theme is Disabled Activism in an Age of Far-Right Resurgence and the event will be condensed into three days from the 16th to the 18th of June. We look forward, as usual, to a world-class faculty and participants from around the globe. More information on the summer school is available at https://cdlp.clr.events/event/137746

Early bird rates until 30th April 2025

06/04/2025

🌱 Join Project LETS and community herbalists/folks with lived experience (on June 20th)— for a virtual panel discussion centering the intersections of Madness, disability, and herbal medicine through a lens of liberation, kinship, and ancestral reclamation.

Register: www.bit.ly/lets-herbalism

We are approaching plants not as a replacement for psychiatry or a set of tools to “fix” people, but as a practice of intentional relationality and a deep medicine in its own right.

This panel is part of our broader commitment to building and sustaining community-rooted, non-pathologizing approaches to mental health and healing.

Together, we’ll explore how we can work with plant medicine to support us in navigating altered states, easing chronic pain, and nourishing our nervous systems. We’ll connect with ancestral knowledge systems that have often been stolen or suppressed through colonial, imperial, and carceral violence.

Many of us—especially multiply marginalized Mad, neurodivergent, Disabled, and psychiatric survivor communities—have been told that plant medicine is unsafe, inaccessible, or incompatible with our bodies and experiences. This panel (and the series to follow) invites us to challenge those narratives to reclaim herbal medicine on our own terms.

✨ Meet our panelists!
- Cyrée Jarelle Johnson (Balm in Gilead)
- Nicole Rose (Solidarity Apothecary)
- Atava Garcia Swiecicki (Ancestral Apothecary)
- Simone Sobers
- Myrna (Flor y Machete)

❤️‍🔥 This event is also a fundraiser for Moonpence Farm & Serenitys Herbs! Check out their website for more information on sustaining their farm.

Register by donation & nobody turned away for lack of funds. We will have ASL interpretation available and a recording. More information about donations, free access form, and access information on our website & Eventbrite page.

You can also visit: projectlets.org/herbalism

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