An Anatomy of Accountable Communities

Public Lecture - All Are Welcome

What comes after the callout? How can communities better support accountability and justice when someone known and trusted does something unacceptable?

Led by Jae Lin (they/them), Founder and Executive Director of , an accountability support project that guides individuals who have caused harm towards understanding, responsibility, and change.

Over the past four years, Jae Lin has been talking to people all over the world who have been called out, confronted, cancelled, or fired for harming others, helping them find their way towards making things right.

This lecture invites all of us to take stock of our community-based skills in addressing harm in ways that better foster transformation.

We'll ground ourselves in understanding what doesn’t work about disposability, incarceration, cancelling, and isolating when it comes to the goal of preventing future harm. And together, we’ll look at the tangible requirements of accountability, identify barriers to change, and share skills and approaches towards lowering those barriers and encouraging transformation.

TICKETS: Pay What You Want (Ticket Value $25). Anyone and any amount is welcome.

Can't get enough of this topic? Get a ticket for the in-depth workshop in our series, "Compassionate Accountability" with Jae Lin, on October 4. Tickets here!

This event and series are proudly co-presented by Calgary Outlink and Affirming Connections.

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*Note: There is absolutely no smoking/vaping in or outside of the premises. Please keep smoking/vaping on the City sidewalk and dispose of butts properly, so we don't lose our rental deposit. Thank you!

Jae Lin (they/them) is an artist, community organizer, and accountability coach who adores their home and community in Austin, Texas. They are the Executive Director of Unbound Communities, which is home to ReSpec, an accountability support project guiding people who have caused harm towards responsibility, clarity, and change, and Gender Unbound, a community arts org uplifting trans and intersex artists in Central Texas.

They care deeply about transformative justice and abolition, collective liberation, queer art, and building resilient relationships. Previously, Jae served as the Hotline Director at the Games and Online Harassment Hotline for four years at Feminist Frequency, with roots in community health programming for queer people of colour. They love a good turn of phrase, a wide-open sky, and losing themself in a story.

Jae intends to share the skills, experiences, and frameworks ReSpec has developed around balancing compassion and accountability, fostering the possibility of transformation, and genuinely interrupting cycles of violence.

The organizers acknowledge the lands that we inhabit are known as Mohkínstsis, Wîchispa-Oyade, Guts’ists’I, Otôskwanihk (ᐅᑑᐢᑿᓂᕽ), or Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on Turtle Island. We honour and value the culture, spirituality, and traditions of the first peoples of Treaty 7; and acknowledge the ancestral stewards of the land, and our shared stewardship as treaty people: the Niitsitapi (the Blackfoot Confederacy, including the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations); the Îyârhe Nakoda of the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations; and the Dene of the Tsuut’ina First Nation. Southern Alberta is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Calgary Elbow District.

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