Richie Reseda is a music, film and content producer, who was freed from prison in 2018.
He co-created and co-hosts the Spotify Original podcast “Abolition X.” While in prison he started Question Culture, the independent media collective that houses his projects, and cofounded Success Stories, the feminist program for incarcerated men chronicled in the CNN documentary, "The Feminist on Cell Block Y."
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Cell Block Feminist, Hip Hop Artist & Co-founder of Initiate Justice
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- We Are All Responsible For Mass Incarceration
- Proponents of both sides of the redundant debate around who bears responsibility for mass incarceration--individuals or the system--are both right. Individuals are responsible for committing harmful illegal acts, for voting for ineffective, abusive policies and politicians and for permitting the continuation of the status quo with our judgmental and vengeful attitudes. The system is responsible for prioritizing power, careerism, revenge and profit over safety, healing and effectiveness. Therefore, we are all responsible for mass incarceration.
- Richie uses his personal experience as someone who's committed illegal harm and the paradigm shift experienced once he started taking responsibility for the results in his life to demonstrate this point and inspirits the audience to take maximum responsibility for transforming the system we all perpetuate.
- Cops, Gangstas, D.A.s and Thugs Share A Common Ancestor--Patriarchy
- Gangsta Culture (a name given to hypermasculine poor, working class men and men of color) and our contemporary criminal justice system, both take their origins from American Patriarchy. Richie shares his personal experiences with each culture at school, in the streets, and in prison to effectively illustrate their similarities. Both value revenge over resolution, both use violence as a primary tool to achieve goals, both thirst for domination over any who challenge them, both exploit and undermine women and both prioritize profit over humanity. In order to stop the systems of harm that both cultures perpetuate we must recognize their kinship, condemn them both and challenge their evil root, patriarchy.
- How To Be An Ally In Real Life
- What does allyship look like when PRIDE marches have Fortune 500 corporate sponsors but black trans womxn are facing nationwide femicide?
- What does allyship look like when gay culture is celebrated in the media but gay people have to hide or pass to safely walk down their own streets?
- How do cis people, hetero people, and cis-hetero-men in particular use our privilege to meaningfully support and protect the queer community?
- As a cis-hetero-man who practiced queer-allyship in the patriarchally violent halls of prison, Richie discusses the tenants and requirements of true allyship.
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<p>Richie Reseda,College Speaker, Keppler Speakers Bureau</p>
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