Refaat Alareer: eternal echoes of resilience from the Gaza Strip

Refaat harbored a profound aspiration — to change his world through teaching poetry, literature, and writing. That writing is a responsibility to … Refaat Alareer: eternal echoes of resilience from the Gaza Strip The loss of Refaat Alareer is profound. If empire demands the extermination of poets, then we must demand the end of empire.

Refaat Alareer: rest in power and peace

Today I learned that Dr. Refaat Alareer, along with his brother, sister, and her four children, were targeted and murdered in an Israeli airstrike. … Refaat Alareer: rest in power and peace

Despite high Black maternal death rate, California hospitals ignored training about bias in care

In summary Black women are three times more likely than any other women to die during or immediately after pregnancy. California lawmakers passed a … Despite high Black maternal death rate, California hospitals ignored training about bias in care

On Black Anarchism

This morning, Georgia attorney general Christoper M. Carr filed indictments against 61 people on RICO charges for their participation in the #StopCopCity movement The #StopCopCity movement seeks to end the construction of a military training facility built to suppress Atlanta area’s minoritized communities and end mass protest. The #StopCopCity movement has received international support and […]

Confronting Police Repression in Atlanta

The #StopCopCity campaign continues despite on-going repression. Sharing some updates and resources in this post

What if we Called them In?

Calling in our kin to divest from the structural oppression that’s destroying us all across this planet.

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