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6900 N Glenwood Ave
Chicago, IL 60626

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Exhibitions & Performances
Mar 7, 2025
March 7, 2025

From Panther to Panther: Legacies of Resistance

Together, we will expand our understanding of how the Black Panther Party’s advocacy for Black empowerment, self-defense, and social justice resonated with the Dalit Panthers in their own struggle for equality and dignity.

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On May 28, 2022, a historic conference took place outside Mumbai, India bringing together leaders of the Black Panther Party and the Dalit Panthers, on the 50th anniversary of the revolutionary group’s founding, which aimed to abolish caste-based discrimination in India. The meeting symbolically and concretely solidified a connection uniting the anti-caste and anti-racism movements, advocating for transnational liberation.

Chicago-based SpaceShift Collective invites you to a multidisciplinary program, which explores the profound influence of the Black Panther Party on the Dalit Panthers through story, sound, performance, artmaking, and conversation.

The afternoon program will highlight the cultural and ideological cross-pollination between the two movements. It will feature contemporary artists, activists, and scholars who will reflect, through their own practices, on the global solidarity of oppressed communities. We will pay tribute to these movements, whose legacies continue to inspire the fight for transnational justice today.

Presenters:

Soumya Shailendra, Scholar (Chicago)
Shrujana Shridhar, Artist & Illustrator, Founder of Dalit Panthers Archive (Mumbai)
Maulikraj Shrimali, Dramatist, Scholar (Chicago)
Damon Locks, Visual Artist, Musician, Educator (Chicago)
Michael D. McCarty, Storyteller (Los Angeles)

Upcoming Events

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PO BOX Collective

Is a creative collective & intergenerational social practice center dedicated to building Rogers Park community through radical art making, mutual aid & programming.


Embraces a horizontal organization model that centers marginalized voices while fostering mutual growth & healing.


Intentionally works to counter systemic oppression, while building up positive alternatives outside of those systems and structures.


Is committed to never requiring payment in exchange for programming associated with our collective.


Does not endorse any political candidates, nor do we host political events, such as fundraisers.