After Accountability: A Virtual Round Table

For our final After Accountability event, join Pinko editors and book contributors for a virtual discussion of After Accountability, an oral history and critical genealogy of “accountability,” hosted by the publisher Haymarket Books on August 6th at 7 EST. Register here to receive a link to the live-streamed video on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded and captioning will be provided.

Read the introduction and conclusion on our website, and purchase your copy of the book here.

Speakers:

Lou Cornum is a diasporic Navajo writer and Assistant Professor of Native American Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Their work has appeared in Art in America, The New Inquiry and Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island.

Kim Diehl is a labor communicator and member of Liberation Road Socialist Organization whose work is rooted in faith, solidarity, and the pursuit of collective liberation. With a Master of Divinity and a deep commitment to prison abolition, they help build beloved community—spaces grounded in mutual aid, care, and accountability, where safety is created through relationships, not policing. They are a queer Black mixed-race bridge connecting the spiritual and political, centering dignity, healing, and liberation for all.

Emi Kane is an educator, researcher, and organizer. She is a co-founder of Survived and Punished, a former member of the Allied Media Projects board of directors, and spent nearly a decade on the National Collective for INCITE! (formerly INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence).

M. E. O’Brien has been an organizer and writer since the 1990s. She has worked on three books, as the author of Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care, co-author of the abolitionist, post-revolutionary speculative novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072, and helped with the collective volume After Accountability through her role as an editorial collective member at Pinko.

Purchase your copy of the book here.