On Aug. 30th, I’m teaching a hybrid workshop linking the spiritual + political for #BlackAugust w/ EndState ATL + @decolonialfc.bsky.social! We will consider what political prisoners can teach us about spiritual discipline and dedication? Register: bit.ly/WriteforBlac...

When we say Black, we mean EVERYBODY Black.  Blackness is not one story, one language, or one flag. It spans across continents, cultures, and histories — including the voices, brilliance, and resilience of Black immigrants in the United States.

Widespread contempt defines the USA these days. The most heartbreaking and tragic situations often seem to get less sympathy than they once did. Instead, many responses center on unflinching callousness and despicable scapegoating, pushing the country further into its spiraling downfall.

We’re co-hosting a Black August Writing Workshop series! Fiction writing against cop cities, George Jackson and persuasive writing, and linking the spiritual and political. Register to join us online or in-person: bit.ly/WriteforBlac...

UPCOMING WORKSHOP 💕 we forgot to post here 🥲 What does anti-colonial education mean in a "landless" modality that relies on global and local infrastructures of extraction, exploitation and death? griffin epstein takes us thru this and other Qs in "Pedagogy in Pandemic Times," Aug. 18.

#OtD 12 Aug 1933 a general strike from Cuba's militant workers' movement brought down the authoritarian regime of President Gerardo Machado stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8372...

My latest examining how Lorde’s revolutionary vision of care was transformed into neoliberal “self(ish) care” — and what we can learn from her friendship with Andaiye. open.substack.com/pub/decoloni...

heartbroken and angry but there are still many people fighting for their lives in Palestine today. support them by donating and learning about their struggles for Palestinian liberation AND about how ppl in the imperial core are offering youth alternatives to soldiering join us this fri and sat:

In Gaza, the journalist has become a direct target. Carrying a camera here is like wearing a mark on your forehead that reads, “Kill me.” In a new op-ed, Shaimaa Eid honors Anas, Mohammed, & their 240+ companions of truth, killed by the Israeli military since the most recent genocide in Gaza began.

If you missed my workshop “Confronting Reproductive Imperialism: Criminalization, Cop Cities, + the Transnational Fight for Reproductive Justice” earlier this year, it’s not too late to check it out! There have been so many great ones! $ goes to the sameer project, and you might learn something new!

"We are not powerless. We are indispensable despite all the atrocities of state and corporate policy to the contrary. At minimum, we have the power to stop cooperating with our enemies." —June Jordan

“Some of the things that some repro groups believe preserve the right to abortion are actually harming and paving the road to hell for people who are experiencing pregnancy criminalization.”

Tonight! There’s still time to register.

New on my substack: “Spirituality is Not a Substitute for Study: African Spiritual Traditions and the Necessity of Revolutionary Theory” open.substack.com/pub/decoloni...

Have y’all registered for this upcoming Fund Abortion Not War workshop hosted by @workshops4gaza.bsky.social?! The money raised will go to the Sameer Project providing on the ground support to Palestinians. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/fun...

Just added to YouTube from earlier this year, “Who Cares? Racial Capitalism, Social Reproduction, and Collective Entanglement” for New Economy Coalition’s “Care for the People” series: youtu.be/7Q1d070m2Q0?...

“The decolonization agenda and decolonial politics are closely bound up with the Pan-African one. Therefore, if Africa is ever going to realize its liberatory vision, it must consciously revitalize Pan-African nationalism outside state structures and mainstream institutions…” 1/

Are you a journalist/editor/media maker who wants to align your work with liberation movements? Applications for our next Reflective Journalism Project workshop are open now! 🌼 Apply by April 18 🌷 Sliding scale & scholarships available 🌹 More info here ⤵️ prismreports.org/reflective-j...

NEW WORKSHOP!! April 24, "Representations, Erasures, and Impacts: Thinking with Disability and Archives" with Gracen Brilmyer. To benefit the Sameer Project's Refaat Alareer Camp. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/thi...

There are too many people in the US arguing that they want others abroad to be massacred and destroyed by an administration they feel is “responsible” enough to massacre and destroy.

Today we honor the life and legacy of Toni Cade Bambara-a revolutionary Black feminist, mother, filmmaker, and scholar-activist. We give thanks for her many contributions, courage, and foresight✨

Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free." - For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza. 23 and he knew to leave a death note.

Care is complicated, gendered, misused. It is often mobilized to enact violence, not assuage it, yet I cannot surrender it. I want acts and accounts of care as shared and distributed risk, as mass refusals of the unbearable life, as total rejections of the dead future— @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

You can’t “expand access to IVF” and support fetal personhood at the same time🫣 If embryos are “people” from conception, this raises the likelihood of criminalization related to the destruction of embryos, a natural part of the IVF process.

People are taking much of this about what the “Founding Fathers” wanted and “checks and balances” too far. This moment is the fulfillment of many of those men's visions. There's no point in pretending they were what they weren't. Fight how you can, but don't reinforce white supremacy in the process.

Everything about the fascistic white supremacist virulence that's overrunning the US is a return to tradition, not a departure from it. White supremacist despotism is quintessentially US. That's why this country inspired Hitler. A new society won't be gained by clinging to nostalgic lies and myths.

Efforts to paint the moments we're in as “anti-American” while romanticizing US history and its foundations do not dig us out of fascism; they dig us deeper in. Tell the truth about how this country came to be and what it is now, or expect more problems.

“Long COVID was also most common among children with a family income of under $100,000 and of parents with an education level of an associate's degree or less.” abcnews.go.com/Health/long-...

There’s not enough discussion about why “humanitarian aid” is needed in the first place or how it’s linked to the long history of the white west’s plunder of the rest of the world. Or discussion of how “humanitarian aid” upholds the white west’s racist power

For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. Paulo Freire (1970)

Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, French and US embassies attacked by protesters in Congo www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/...

Reproductive imperialism is a U.S. export. Reproductive justice practitioners must connect the local to the global in order to have a full picture of our opposition’s project and their tactics.

“The way we wage confrontation should be a threat to whomever or whatever is putting our lives at risk. Threats have to become kept promises too”

On Jan 29th, we bring you "Confronting Reproductive Imperialism: Criminalization, Cop Cities, and the Transnational Fight for Reproductive Justice," run by Jalessah T. Jackson. Register through this link: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/con...

Facilitating a workshop on #reproductivejustice and reproductive imperialism. All proceeds go to materially support families in Gaza via the sameer project. Come thru!

I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.

So excited to partner with @divyampersaud.com and @workshops4gaza.bsky.social for this two-part workshop in January! I'll be giving an intro to space ethics and the choices space exploration asks us to make, and Divya will explore the ethics of Mars imaging and how it relates to dual-use.

The fight to protect transgender students’ rights gears up for new battles in New Jersey, Tehsin Pala reports. Controversial efforts to repeal policies protecting trans students are gaining traction, drawing strong responses from LGBTQIA+ advocacy organizations. prismreports.org/2024/12/04/t...

In September, the city of Chicago stopped using ShotSpotter, a sensor system designed to detect gunshots & alert police & first responders, @nberlat.bsky.social reports. Activists launched a fact-based campaign & a potential model for organizers in other cities. prismreports.org/2024/12/02/h...

Prison abolition 🤝 Environmental & Health Justice

“The complete dismissal of entire populations as sub-human, or not equivalent to European or Euro-American bodies, is a stark reminder that the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and colonial genocide of indigenous populations by Western empires have never left us.”

Learning from diverse resistance movements, decolonial feminists and anti-imperialists worldwide, we gain a broader analysis of the structures oppressing people and planet.