Ronica Mukerjee presents "All This Safety is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders”

Ronica Mukerjee presents "All This Safety is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders”

Saturday, July 19th 2025
7:00 pm
Red Emma's
Exposing how marginalized communities are vilified by “carceral safety” systems, educators and health justice advocates Carlos Martinez and Ronica Mukerjee call for a radical break with reformist strategies in favor of ones grounded in grassroots organizing and abolition.

ALL THIS SAFETY IS KILLING US reflects this view, combining political strategy with evidence-based medical and social science research to envision a post-carceral society.

With contributions from scholars, activists and artists, ALL THIS SAFETY IS KILLING US marks a radical break from punitive frameworks. Special features include:

  • Contributions from nurses, doctors, doulas, public health workers, physical therapists, acupuncturists, and disability justice workers.
  • Woodcuts, comics, mini-zines, infographics, and drawings by community activists, queer and trans/gender expansive-focused writers, current prisoners, deportees, and survivors of state-sanctioned violence.
  • Interviews with leading abolition and health justice scholars.

Bringing scholarly research into public conversation, this book shows that those working within public health and medical fields have a critical role to play in creating a truly safe and flourishing society

Ronica Mukerjee, DNP, MsA, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, LAc, is a family and psychiatric nurse practitioner as well as a licensed acupuncturist. They have been certified as an HIV specialist since 2008 by the American Academy of HIV Medicine. Mukerjee is passionate about racial, economic, and health care justice in LGBTQIA+, refugees, and migrant communities, for people with substance use disorders, and for people living with HIV. They are the former program coordinator and sole creator of the Gender and Sexuality Health Justice concentration at Yale School of Nursing. Mukerjee maintains multiple practices in the U.S. and Mexico focused on refugee health, substance use disorders, HIV, and LGBTQIA+-affirming care. Mukerjee co-founded the Refugee Health Alliance in Tijuana, Mexico, which focuses on health care projects that are free and available to all, regardless of citizenship or income. Their practices include hormonal, psychiatric, and primary care for trans and gender-expansive people as well as ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Their co-edited textbook, Clinician’s Guide to LGBTQIA+ Care: Cultural Safety and Social Justice in Primary, Sexual, and Reproductive Healthcare, was published in February 2021.

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