“Don’t forget to include Sudan, DR Congo and Tigray in your Advocacy. 🖤
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word ‘love’ here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” – James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time”
Stay Informed:
@sudan.updates
@sdn.world
@forsudaneseliberation
@standwithtigray
@omnatigray
@peaceintigray
@focuscongo
@congofriends
@thefutureofcongo
@iheartafricadotorg
Also @red_maat has really been holding it down for Sudan, Congo and Tigray. Check their page for tons of info and resources. Appreciate you!🖤”
Thank you @devthepineapple
#blm #keepeyesonsudan #genocost #freetigray #solidarity #panafrican #onelove #africa #trending #viral
“Don’t forget to include Sudan, DR Congo and Tigray in your Advocacy. 🖤
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word ‘love’ here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” – James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time”
Stay Informed:
@sudan.updates
@sdn.world
@forsudaneseliberation
@standwithtigray
@omnatigray
@peaceintigray
@focuscongo
@congofriends
@thefutureofcongo
@iheartafricadotorg
Also @red_maat has really been holding it down for Sudan, Congo and Tigray. Check their page for tons of info and resources. Appreciate you!🖤”
Thank you @devthepineapple
#blm #keepeyesonsudan #genocost #freetigray #solidarity #panafrican #onelove #africa #trending #viral
“Don’t forget to include Sudan, DR Congo and Tigray in your Advocacy. 🖤
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word ‘love’ here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” – James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time”
Stay Informed:
@sudan.updates
@sdn.world
@forsudaneseliberation
@standwithtigray
@omnatigray
@peaceintigray
@focuscongo
@congofriends
@thefutureofcongo
@iheartafricadotorg
Also @red_maat has really been holding it down for Sudan, Congo and Tigray. Check their page for tons of info and resources. Appreciate you!🖤”
Thank you @devthepineapple
#blm #keepeyesonsudan #genocost #freetigray #solidarity #panafrican #onelove #africa #trending #viral
“Don’t forget to include Sudan, DR Congo and Tigray in your Advocacy. 🖤
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word ‘love’ here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” – James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time”
Stay Informed:
@sudan.updates
@sdn.world
@forsudaneseliberation
@standwithtigray
@omnatigray
@peaceintigray
@focuscongo
@congofriends
@thefutureofcongo
@iheartafricadotorg
Also @red_maat has really been holding it down for Sudan, Congo and Tigray. Check their page for tons of info and resources. Appreciate you!🖤”
Thank you @devthepineapple
#blm #keepeyesonsudan #genocost #freetigray #solidarity #panafrican #onelove #africa #trending #viral
This is my cousin Keenan Anderson. He was killed by LAPD in Venice on January 3rd, 2023. My cousin was an educator and worked with high school aged children. He was an English teacher.
LAPD has killed three people this year. One of them is my family member.
Keenan deserves to be alive right now, his child deserves to be raised by his father. Keenan we will fight for you and for all of our loved ones impacted by state violence.
I love you.
#JusticeForKeenan #BlackLivesMatter
This is my cousin Keenan Anderson. He was killed by LAPD in Venice on January 3rd, 2023. My cousin was an educator and worked with high school aged children. He was an English teacher.
LAPD has killed three people this year. One of them is my family member.
Keenan deserves to be alive right now, his child deserves to be raised by his father. Keenan we will fight for you and for all of our loved ones impacted by state violence.
I love you.
#JusticeForKeenan #BlackLivesMatter
Trigger warning:
1st slide: hate mail
2nd slide: a drone above my home taking pictures and surveilling me and my family
I don’t share all the level of hate and vitriol I get on a daily basis. I don’t share the consistent surveillance I am under on a daily basis. I don’t often communicate how the tabloid lies from NY post, Daily Mail etc, and many of the Black gossip sites proliferated about me with out ever actually interviewing me ( mostly shame on the Black gossip sites ) impacted my mental health, my confidence, my sense of self, my whole entire being.
I rarely discuss how often Black people NOT trolls incite violence against me in my comment section.
But this is my life. And this is the life of many of us who decide that we will and must fight for Black life. Even though I am way less visible than I use to, I am still perceived as a threat to white supremacy. I’ve only ever been guilty of fighting for Black people, for caring for Black people, and yet…. This is the shit that I experience often.
I pray for all of us. That our world transitions into the abolitionist vision I and so many of us imagine.
We all deserve better. And we will eventually receive better.
Ashe ooooooo
Trigger warning:
1st slide: hate mail
2nd slide: a drone above my home taking pictures and surveilling me and my family
I don’t share all the level of hate and vitriol I get on a daily basis. I don’t share the consistent surveillance I am under on a daily basis. I don’t often communicate how the tabloid lies from NY post, Daily Mail etc, and many of the Black gossip sites proliferated about me with out ever actually interviewing me ( mostly shame on the Black gossip sites ) impacted my mental health, my confidence, my sense of self, my whole entire being.
I rarely discuss how often Black people NOT trolls incite violence against me in my comment section.
But this is my life. And this is the life of many of us who decide that we will and must fight for Black life. Even though I am way less visible than I use to, I am still perceived as a threat to white supremacy. I’ve only ever been guilty of fighting for Black people, for caring for Black people, and yet…. This is the shit that I experience often.
I pray for all of us. That our world transitions into the abolitionist vision I and so many of us imagine.
We all deserve better. And we will eventually receive better.
Ashe ooooooo
Too many thoughts, questions, words, and none at all. I know suffering. I know pain. I know despair. I’ll hold all of those feelings. And I’ll also hold life, life, life – I won’t let them only make me see death.
Life.
Long healthy and thriving lives.
The people of Gaza will live long healthy thriving lives.
#Rafah
Too many thoughts, questions, words, and none at all. I know suffering. I know pain. I know despair. I’ll hold all of those feelings. And I’ll also hold life, life, life – I won’t let them only make me see death.
Life.
Long healthy and thriving lives.
The people of Gaza will live long healthy thriving lives.
#Rafah
In recent years, we’ve witnessed the brutal reality of systemic racism and police violence against Black people. We live in a world where a Black person can be killed by law enforcement in broad daylight, sparking a global uprising. ( George Floyd, 2020 uprisings )
Despite this, the initial wave of DEI initiatives that followed has faded into complacency. Four years later, the narrative has shifted, and many are now blaming Black people while ignoring the ongoing deaths and trauma we’ve endured.
The year 2023 marked the deadliest year for Black people at the hands of law enforcement, yet the collective outcry has diminished. The urgency to address these issues seems to have waned, and it feels as if society has moved on, leaving us to bear the brunt of this violence alone.
This stark reality underscores the need for sustained advocacy, meaningful change, and unwavering support for Black lives.
I want to challenge any city across the globe who is ready to implement abolition as a viable governing/social experiment to save Black lives thus all lives. If there is ANY government official out there who wants to implement abolition, contact me.
Because the hell we are all currently living in isn’t it. And the organizers and artists and people who have literally risked their lives to change this awful system need more elected officials and appointed officials to show up courageously and take on the police and prison system like our lives depend on it.
#GeorgeFloyd #KeenanAnderson #DefundThePolice
In recent years, we’ve witnessed the brutal reality of systemic racism and police violence against Black people. We live in a world where a Black person can be killed by law enforcement in broad daylight, sparking a global uprising. ( George Floyd, 2020 uprisings )
Despite this, the initial wave of DEI initiatives that followed has faded into complacency. Four years later, the narrative has shifted, and many are now blaming Black people while ignoring the ongoing deaths and trauma we’ve endured.
The year 2023 marked the deadliest year for Black people at the hands of law enforcement, yet the collective outcry has diminished. The urgency to address these issues seems to have waned, and it feels as if society has moved on, leaving us to bear the brunt of this violence alone.
This stark reality underscores the need for sustained advocacy, meaningful change, and unwavering support for Black lives.
I want to challenge any city across the globe who is ready to implement abolition as a viable governing/social experiment to save Black lives thus all lives. If there is ANY government official out there who wants to implement abolition, contact me.
Because the hell we are all currently living in isn’t it. And the organizers and artists and people who have literally risked their lives to change this awful system need more elected officials and appointed officials to show up courageously and take on the police and prison system like our lives depend on it.
#GeorgeFloyd #KeenanAnderson #DefundThePolice
In recent years, we’ve witnessed the brutal reality of systemic racism and police violence against Black people. We live in a world where a Black person can be killed by law enforcement in broad daylight, sparking a global uprising. ( George Floyd, 2020 uprisings )
Despite this, the initial wave of DEI initiatives that followed has faded into complacency. Four years later, the narrative has shifted, and many are now blaming Black people while ignoring the ongoing deaths and trauma we’ve endured.
The year 2023 marked the deadliest year for Black people at the hands of law enforcement, yet the collective outcry has diminished. The urgency to address these issues seems to have waned, and it feels as if society has moved on, leaving us to bear the brunt of this violence alone.
This stark reality underscores the need for sustained advocacy, meaningful change, and unwavering support for Black lives.
I want to challenge any city across the globe who is ready to implement abolition as a viable governing/social experiment to save Black lives thus all lives. If there is ANY government official out there who wants to implement abolition, contact me.
Because the hell we are all currently living in isn’t it. And the organizers and artists and people who have literally risked their lives to change this awful system need more elected officials and appointed officials to show up courageously and take on the police and prison system like our lives depend on it.
#GeorgeFloyd #KeenanAnderson #DefundThePolice
In recent years, we’ve witnessed the brutal reality of systemic racism and police violence against Black people. We live in a world where a Black person can be killed by law enforcement in broad daylight, sparking a global uprising. ( George Floyd, 2020 uprisings )
Despite this, the initial wave of DEI initiatives that followed has faded into complacency. Four years later, the narrative has shifted, and many are now blaming Black people while ignoring the ongoing deaths and trauma we’ve endured.
The year 2023 marked the deadliest year for Black people at the hands of law enforcement, yet the collective outcry has diminished. The urgency to address these issues seems to have waned, and it feels as if society has moved on, leaving us to bear the brunt of this violence alone.
This stark reality underscores the need for sustained advocacy, meaningful change, and unwavering support for Black lives.
I want to challenge any city across the globe who is ready to implement abolition as a viable governing/social experiment to save Black lives thus all lives. If there is ANY government official out there who wants to implement abolition, contact me.
Because the hell we are all currently living in isn’t it. And the organizers and artists and people who have literally risked their lives to change this awful system need more elected officials and appointed officials to show up courageously and take on the police and prison system like our lives depend on it.
#GeorgeFloyd #KeenanAnderson #DefundThePolice
In recent years, we’ve witnessed the brutal reality of systemic racism and police violence against Black people. We live in a world where a Black person can be killed by law enforcement in broad daylight, sparking a global uprising. ( George Floyd, 2020 uprisings )
Despite this, the initial wave of DEI initiatives that followed has faded into complacency. Four years later, the narrative has shifted, and many are now blaming Black people while ignoring the ongoing deaths and trauma we’ve endured.
The year 2023 marked the deadliest year for Black people at the hands of law enforcement, yet the collective outcry has diminished. The urgency to address these issues seems to have waned, and it feels as if society has moved on, leaving us to bear the brunt of this violence alone.
This stark reality underscores the need for sustained advocacy, meaningful change, and unwavering support for Black lives.
I want to challenge any city across the globe who is ready to implement abolition as a viable governing/social experiment to save Black lives thus all lives. If there is ANY government official out there who wants to implement abolition, contact me.
Because the hell we are all currently living in isn’t it. And the organizers and artists and people who have literally risked their lives to change this awful system need more elected officials and appointed officials to show up courageously and take on the police and prison system like our lives depend on it.
#GeorgeFloyd #KeenanAnderson #DefundThePolice
In recent years, we’ve witnessed the brutal reality of systemic racism and police violence against Black people. We live in a world where a Black person can be killed by law enforcement in broad daylight, sparking a global uprising. ( George Floyd, 2020 uprisings )
Despite this, the initial wave of DEI initiatives that followed has faded into complacency. Four years later, the narrative has shifted, and many are now blaming Black people while ignoring the ongoing deaths and trauma we’ve endured.
The year 2023 marked the deadliest year for Black people at the hands of law enforcement, yet the collective outcry has diminished. The urgency to address these issues seems to have waned, and it feels as if society has moved on, leaving us to bear the brunt of this violence alone.
This stark reality underscores the need for sustained advocacy, meaningful change, and unwavering support for Black lives.
I want to challenge any city across the globe who is ready to implement abolition as a viable governing/social experiment to save Black lives thus all lives. If there is ANY government official out there who wants to implement abolition, contact me.
Because the hell we are all currently living in isn’t it. And the organizers and artists and people who have literally risked their lives to change this awful system need more elected officials and appointed officials to show up courageously and take on the police and prison system like our lives depend on it.
#GeorgeFloyd #KeenanAnderson #DefundThePolice
In recent years, we’ve witnessed the brutal reality of systemic racism and police violence against Black people. We live in a world where a Black person can be killed by law enforcement in broad daylight, sparking a global uprising. ( George Floyd, 2020 uprisings )
Despite this, the initial wave of DEI initiatives that followed has faded into complacency. Four years later, the narrative has shifted, and many are now blaming Black people while ignoring the ongoing deaths and trauma we’ve endured.
The year 2023 marked the deadliest year for Black people at the hands of law enforcement, yet the collective outcry has diminished. The urgency to address these issues seems to have waned, and it feels as if society has moved on, leaving us to bear the brunt of this violence alone.
This stark reality underscores the need for sustained advocacy, meaningful change, and unwavering support for Black lives.
I want to challenge any city across the globe who is ready to implement abolition as a viable governing/social experiment to save Black lives thus all lives. If there is ANY government official out there who wants to implement abolition, contact me.
Because the hell we are all currently living in isn’t it. And the organizers and artists and people who have literally risked their lives to change this awful system need more elected officials and appointed officials to show up courageously and take on the police and prison system like our lives depend on it.
#GeorgeFloyd #KeenanAnderson #DefundThePolice
When I wrote this book I was incredibly worried about the state of our movements.
The gossip culture. The take down culture. The lack of support for each other. The inability to use abolition in our everyday lives.
I wrote this book because I believe progressive movements need a culture that helps the rest of the world be better to and for each other.
Abolition isn’t just about changing outside systems, it’s about our interpersonal relationships and how we can move away from an economy of violence and towards an economy of care.
The paperback is out now. Let’s not just read this book and put it on a shelf. Let’s read this book and make sure we are using it as a way to practice together, in community.
Ashe oooooooooooo
Foreword by @adriennemareebrown
Introduction by @prentishemphill
OFFSITE JUNE 3RD WORKSHOP: AN ABOLITIONIST APPROACH TO A.I.
PATRISSE CULLORS & DR. AVRIEL EPPS
REPARATIONS CLUB X NORBLACK NORWHITE
WHO & WHAT: Join Dr. Avriel Epps and Patrisse Cullors in a transformative workshop to celebrate the paperback release of Cullors’ AN ABOLITIONIST HANDBOOK: 12 STEPS TO CHANGING YOURSELF AND THE WORLD. Building on the final chapter, “Fight the U.S. State, Do Not Make It Stronger,” the workshop will explore the current deployment of AI as an instrument of U.S. imperial power and challenge prevailing media and Hollywood narratives that depict AI as a force of inevitable dominance and disruption.
Through critical analysis and interactive discussion, participants will reimagine and reshape the future intersection of technology and social justice, and consider how an abolitionist approach to AI development can actively subvert power structures, paving the way for a genuine abolitionist democracy characterized by healing and transformative justice.
WHEN: Monday, June 3, 2024 @ 7:30-9pm PST (doors @ 7pm)
WHERE: NorBlack NorWhite | 424 1/2 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA
ADA PARKING: The space is wheelchair accessible. There is street parking along Fairfax and side streets.
More info on my linktree! Only 40 spaces for this workshop!
OFFSITE JUNE 3RD WORKSHOP: AN ABOLITIONIST APPROACH TO A.I.
PATRISSE CULLORS & DR. AVRIEL EPPS
REPARATIONS CLUB X NORBLACK NORWHITE
WHO & WHAT: Join Dr. Avriel Epps and Patrisse Cullors in a transformative workshop to celebrate the paperback release of Cullors’ AN ABOLITIONIST HANDBOOK: 12 STEPS TO CHANGING YOURSELF AND THE WORLD. Building on the final chapter, “Fight the U.S. State, Do Not Make It Stronger,” the workshop will explore the current deployment of AI as an instrument of U.S. imperial power and challenge prevailing media and Hollywood narratives that depict AI as a force of inevitable dominance and disruption.
Through critical analysis and interactive discussion, participants will reimagine and reshape the future intersection of technology and social justice, and consider how an abolitionist approach to AI development can actively subvert power structures, paving the way for a genuine abolitionist democracy characterized by healing and transformative justice.
WHEN: Monday, June 3, 2024 @ 7:30-9pm PST (doors @ 7pm)
WHERE: NorBlack NorWhite | 424 1/2 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA
ADA PARKING: The space is wheelchair accessible. There is street parking along Fairfax and side streets.
More info on my linktree! Only 40 spaces for this workshop!
OFFSITE JUNE 3RD WORKSHOP: AN ABOLITIONIST APPROACH TO A.I.
PATRISSE CULLORS & DR. AVRIEL EPPS
REPARATIONS CLUB X NORBLACK NORWHITE
WHO & WHAT: Join Dr. Avriel Epps and Patrisse Cullors in a transformative workshop to celebrate the paperback release of Cullors’ AN ABOLITIONIST HANDBOOK: 12 STEPS TO CHANGING YOURSELF AND THE WORLD. Building on the final chapter, “Fight the U.S. State, Do Not Make It Stronger,” the workshop will explore the current deployment of AI as an instrument of U.S. imperial power and challenge prevailing media and Hollywood narratives that depict AI as a force of inevitable dominance and disruption.
Through critical analysis and interactive discussion, participants will reimagine and reshape the future intersection of technology and social justice, and consider how an abolitionist approach to AI development can actively subvert power structures, paving the way for a genuine abolitionist democracy characterized by healing and transformative justice.
WHEN: Monday, June 3, 2024 @ 7:30-9pm PST (doors @ 7pm)
WHERE: NorBlack NorWhite | 424 1/2 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA
ADA PARKING: The space is wheelchair accessible. There is street parking along Fairfax and side streets.
More info on my linktree! Only 40 spaces for this workshop!
OFFSITE JUNE 3RD WORKSHOP: AN ABOLITIONIST APPROACH TO A.I.
PATRISSE CULLORS & DR. AVRIEL EPPS
REPARATIONS CLUB X NORBLACK NORWHITE
WHO & WHAT: Join Dr. Avriel Epps and Patrisse Cullors in a transformative workshop to celebrate the paperback release of Cullors’ AN ABOLITIONIST HANDBOOK: 12 STEPS TO CHANGING YOURSELF AND THE WORLD. Building on the final chapter, “Fight the U.S. State, Do Not Make It Stronger,” the workshop will explore the current deployment of AI as an instrument of U.S. imperial power and challenge prevailing media and Hollywood narratives that depict AI as a force of inevitable dominance and disruption.
Through critical analysis and interactive discussion, participants will reimagine and reshape the future intersection of technology and social justice, and consider how an abolitionist approach to AI development can actively subvert power structures, paving the way for a genuine abolitionist democracy characterized by healing and transformative justice.
WHEN: Monday, June 3, 2024 @ 7:30-9pm PST (doors @ 7pm)
WHERE: NorBlack NorWhite | 424 1/2 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA
ADA PARKING: The space is wheelchair accessible. There is street parking along Fairfax and side streets.
More info on my linktree! Only 40 spaces for this workshop!
Abolitionist Meditations, Creative Breath
The next theme for Abolitionist Meditations is centered on our imagination. In times of intense crisis imagination can help us renegotiate our relationship to the crisis. We can use our imagination to chart a path forward that doesn’t rely on the ways we’ve been taught. White Supremacy tries and destroy our individual and collective imagination. So, let this next set of meditations ground you in your imagination.
Abolitionist Meditations brought to you by @kingavriel and Patrisse Cullors.
It is undoubtable that Art and Activism converge in our movements. I love this conversation between @osopepatrisse and @shahrzadchang that dropped on @resetthealgorithm this week. The erasure and repression of women in #GenderApartheid states compounding everyday and #WomanLifeFreedom is our answer to liberation for these women and all people living under theocratic dictators. These things don’t happen overnight and they are not rectified overnight either, but the fight continues. It is not a protest, it is a revolution and we will win.
Listen to this amazing convits it’s entirety out now!
