In this short excerpt, Dr. Xhercis Méndez sets intentions for an evening in conversation with MeToo founder Tarana Burke. The video features a trauma-informed approach to discussions on sexual harm and gender-based violence and highlights the importance of centering survivors and their many contributions to building harm-free futures.
This video features a powerful conversation between Dr. Dean Spade (Seattle University School of Law and collaborator with BCRW and Project NIA) and Dr. Xhercis Méndez (CSU Fullerton and founder of The Campus TJ Project) thinking about how best to organize responses to gender-based violence on campuses. We discuss lessons from the work that the The Campus TJ Project (now Listen Bridge Change) has done across campuses nationally to address sexual harm.
Dr. Mimi Kim (CSULB and Creative Interventions) and Dr. Xhercis Méndez (CSU Fullerton) discuss the history of punitive responses to gender-based violence and the Larry Nassar case at Michigan State University. In this video Dr. Méndez makes an argument for survivor-centered responses to sexual harm and institutional strategies to address gender-based violence in the aftermath of the Larry Nassar case.
Dr. Mimi Kim (School of Social Work, CSULB; INCITE and Creative Interventions) and Dr. Xhercis Méndez (Criminal Justice, CSUF and The Campus TJ Project) share lessons, concepts, strategies, and practices for addressing gender-based violence through a life-affirming transformative justice lens.
Dr. Xhercis Méndez discusses ways to move toward transformative justice strategies to address microaggressions, racism, and gender-based violence in higher ed institutions.
This video features a conversation with activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Dr. Jina B. Kim (Smith College), and Dr. Xhercis Méndez (CSU Fullerton) on the relationship between transformative justice and disability, race, and care work.