Thoughts on Extraction

When Ruthie Wilson Gilmore and I sat down for a conversation, we spoke about how the PIC not only exploits the labor of imprisoned folx (mainly via … Thoughts on Extraction Stevie writes We don’t need to work to be of value to the PIC. Just being here and being “diagnosed” by their staff makes […]

Plantation is not a metaphor

Plantation is not a metaphorWhen she told us she’d been firedfor holding an open door for the Muslim sistersFor telling the white man that was not her nameFor allowing the sisters to hold spaceFor being the Didi to the sisters far from homeThe school was founded by a plantation ownerNever got the memo about emancipationafter […]

Abolition is Ancestral: a Meditation

Abolition is about the centering of safety, freedom, life. It is a practice of affirmation. I look to the radical healing and love of ancestor Mother Sallie as a guidepost. Abolition is ancestral

On Property

The Black radical tradition has always involved the disruption of property. We were the “loot” upon which the nation was built, our very existence is the abolition of property

A CopCity Reading List

Atlanta’s #StopCopCity movement and it’s violent repression which resulted in the murder of Manuel Terán can be understood in the wider context of Indigenous climate activism and modes of Black and Southern radicalism. I offer a reading list

Scenes from Class Struggle in Atlanta

The unhoused are subjected nonstop to the violence of the 14 policing agencies of the Atlanta area. A narrative and reflection on one incident.

Bee at Peace, Be at Rest

The solstice occurred a few days ago. Images of Yaldā celebrations uplifted the world. As I complete this post, the temperature outside is well below freezing and is predicted to remain so through the day. In many part of the planet, life is embracing rest. For the last three years I’ve noticed how the older […]

Decolonial Practice

Notes on a de-colonial practice — how do we un-settle and land-back each minute?

On Black Genius and Astral Flutes

Lizzo’s performance at the Library of Congress as a sublime and profound act of abolition.

Feminism as Lifework: A dedication to bell hooks

A lifework: the entire or principal activity over a person’s lifetime or career. To be a feminist is to make feminism your lifework. I am deeply … Feminism as Lifework: A dedication to bell hooks A beautiful and insightful meditation on the life work of bell hooks from Sara Ahmed who teaches us, never stops […]