Socialism 2025: Full Schedule

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1:30pm CDT

Friday July 4, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm CDT

Do you want to build connections with imprisoned comrades, but don’t know where to start? Spend your lunch hour learning the political importance of and best practices for letter writing to prisoners. Participants will have the opportunity write postcards during the session with guidance and support from formerly imprisoned people. Bring a friend, or two!

Friday July 4, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm CDT
TBA

Skill Sharing

3:00pm CDT

Collective Liberation through Sex Education: How Sex Education Should be at the Root of All Organizing Spaces

Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

TBA

At the root of organizing is education, not just formal, but skill-sharing and radical understanding. Sex education must be foundational, covering pleasure, racial medical history, gender, advocacy, relationships, violence prevention, and harm reduction. This session will help organizers understand these roots and the necessity of intersectional thinking in our movements.

Speakers

Elhom Karbassi

Elhom Karbassi (she/her) is a first-generation Iranian-American from Savannah, GA. She grew up with an abstinence-only, Bible Belt sex education which led to shame, confusion, and harm when she started exploring her sexuality. This drove her to want to ensure other all folks have... Read More →

Thalía Chicojay

Sponsors

Sexpectations Chicago

Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA

Skill Sharing

5:00pm CDT

Against Abandonment: DIY Approaches to Clean Air Justice

Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT

TBA

Ohio Clean Air Coalition will demystify key aspects of improving indoor air quality in the interest of maintaining disability justice in our collective spaces. Participants will leave the workshop with hands-on experience building air purifiers as well as technical knowledge to make tangible the invisibility of air and virus transmission.

Speakers

Sarah Doherty

Sarah Doherty is a white fat crip dyke artist/educator/organizer. She's organized for liberation and justice in multiple interconnected movements with fat, disabled, queer, trans, immigrant, regional, and university communities coast to coast, in the south and midwest. She loves pickles... Read More →

Sharon Kim

Sharon Kim is an organizer from Columbus, OH.

Sean Rule-Hoffman

Sean Rule-Hoffman is an audio engineer and community organizer with Ohio Clean Air Coalition. He uses science-based approaches to find practical and effective solutions to improving indoor air quality and reducing airborne virus transmission in Columbus, Ohio.

Sam Wrigglesworth

Sam Wrigglesworth is a disabled visual artist, writer, and educator currently based in central Ohio. In their practice and organizing, they are concerned with maintenance, collective power + care, and the body. They founded the Ohio Clean Air Coalition in 2024 after living with long... Read More →

Sponsors

Ohio Clean Air Coalition

Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA

Skill Sharing