All This Safety is Killing Us

Saturday • May 23 • 2 – 3:30 pm • Free
Institute of the Arts and Sciences • 100 Panetta Ave • Santa Cruz

Join the UCSC Institute of the Arts and Sciences for a conversation between Aminah Elster, Jennifer James, and Carlos Martinez on the intersection of prison abolition and healthcare. In 2025 Martinez co-edited All This Safety Is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders to which Elster and James contributed the chapter “Medical Neglect as Carceral Violence.”

This event is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Everything is Going Right and as part of Visualizing Abolition, an arts-based initiative that reaches across prison borders to contribute to the unfolding collective story and alternative imagining underway to create a future free of prisons.