Confronting Police Repression in Atlanta
The #StopCopCity campaign continues despite on-going repression. Sharing some updates and resources in this post
Read More Confronting Police Repression in AtlantaCategory: Abolition
What if we Called them In?
Calling in our kin to divest from the structural oppression that’s destroying us all across this planet.
Read More What if we Called them In?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 […]
Read More Thoughts on ExtractionPlantation 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 […]
Read More Plantation is not a metaphorAbolition 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
Read More Abolition is Ancestral: a MeditationOn 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
Read More On PropertyA 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
Read More A CopCity Reading ListScenes 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.
Read More Scenes from Class Struggle in AtlantaBee 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 […]
Read More Bee at Peace, Be at RestDecolonial Practice
Notes on a de-colonial practice — how do we un-settle and land-back each minute?
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