Sol Thea Kelley-Jones
Sol Thea Kelley-Jones is an activist, educator, and parent working toward collective liberation. She has decades of experience engaging in conflict transformation and justice-making work, building coalitions for social change, and facilitating arts-based interventions, creative uprisings and healing. Sol’s work has taken her from the Middle East to the militarized U.S./Mexico borderlands to communities across Wisconsin. She currently teaches peace and conflict studies at Mount Mary University.
In-Person | PM Session A
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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Facilitated By: Karen Urrutia Polnitz & Sol Kelley-Jones
Audience: Open to EveryoneTogether we will explore what abolition can look like, sound like, feel like - free from the many forms of oppression, domination, and annihilation that ensnare our communities. As Ruthie Gilmore urges, "abolition is not an absence, it is a presence,” it is about making things, crafting new worlds. Drawing inspiration from solarpunk, afrofuturism, and activist-artists, participants will share their visions of liberated futures through an art form of their choosing, celebrate and learn from others’ creations, and collectively reflect on what it means to “get free.” The hard work of dismantling systems of harm requires that we also nurture bold, emancipatory visions and we invite participants to feel into what a world alive with justice, community care, and collective liberation can be. Join us!