Free Write Arts & Literacy

Co-designing creative spaces with incarcerated and criminalized youth as they become the authors of their own futures.

[Free Write Arts & Literacy @FreeWriteChi]

TW: Sexual violence
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October 2020, Free Write began a long overdue process to account for our choices to work with an employee who caused sexual harm, the toxic organizational culture created by those choices, and the subsequent harm caused to close colleagues and partners.

[Free Write Arts & Literacy @FreeWriteChi]

This new Free Write Accountability Update acknowledges further harm we have caused during this process, announces the dissolution of Free Write Arts & Literacy, offers details on the current and the next phase of our accountability. https://t.co/ZZL2X46PgG

[Free Write Arts & Literacy @FreeWriteChi]

@RaychJackson We chose remove the specific details of the abuse that we were given in April 2014 because the survivor's statement cited the further harm it was causing them to see pieces of their experience written there. This edit is noted and dated at the top of the statement.

[Free Write Arts & Literacy @FreeWriteChi]

@RaychJackson Yes, we are inexcusably late to being accountable for something we should have handled very differently so long ago. Our accountability process began in late 2020. Initial public accountability statement and subsequent updates here: https://t.co/viIV2oZuui

[mk @mkkaishian]

Community policing is intelligence gathering. https://t.co/I5pO5VvgnU

[neveroddoreven @liquescentlove]

This is a thread. If you or anyone you know still fux with Roger Bonair-Agard, please read this. TW: Rape & Sexual Assault 1/

[Bodega Baddie @CAMONGHNE]

TW: Statement on Roger Bonair Agard from my sibling Fatimah Asghar. Please read. Please share. Youth arts communities are sacred and we injure that sacredness every time we refuse to hold our institutions & people accountable. So many ppl are responsible.
https://t.co/maW4GLf2b2

[Chani Nicholas @chaninicholas]

TW rape

Today our love, Fatimah Asghar’s is releasing her statement regarding her abuser, Roger Bonair-Agard. We are here to hold space for her powerful words and for her healing. Please consider sharing if you are in literary circles:

https://t.co/HNmAT6EyPt

[jamila woods @jamilawoods]

tw: rape

Please read & share my sister Fatimah Asghar’s statement about her abuser, Roger Bonair-Agard

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Biden Unveils Cool Teen Migrant Detainment Center Where Youths Can Hang Out And Never Leave https://t.co/xKPZ7es8n8

[For the People Artists Collective @ForThePeopleChi]

Cover artwork of @prisonculture's new book by @ForThePeopleChi co-founder and @Justseeds member @monicatea2! See more of her movement artwork at https://t.co/9Z3joYbz75. 💯

[Free Write Arts & Literacy @FreeWriteChi]

The full, evolving Accountability Statement can be found here: https://t.co/viIV2ph5lQ

[Free Write Arts & Literacy @FreeWriteChi]

TW: Sexual violence
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October 2020, Free Write began a long overdue process to account for our choices to work with an employee who caused sexual harm, the toxic organizational culture created by those choices, and the subsequent harm caused to close colleagues and partners.

[McKensie Mack 🐰 @mckensiemack]

As an accountability facilitator in the most recent external accountability process with @FreeWriteChi, I am in full support of @pettymogul and thank her for her integrity in bringing her experiences with this harm to the light.

[Free Write Arts & Literacy @FreeWriteChi]

We validate the feelings and experience of @pettymogul and deeply apologize for the harm we caused her.

The full and evolving accountabilty statement can be found here:
https://t.co/viIV2ph5lQ

[SheaButterEntrepreneur💅🏿 @pettymogul]

TW: rape, sexual assault

I am shaking I am so mad. I am planning to release a statement about why I resigned from my job with @FreeWriteChi, due to their incompetency and elevation of repeat abuser, Roger Bonair-Asgard. But I got to post this now.

https://t.co/GjLnF325Hy

[Free Write Arts & Literacy @FreeWriteChi]

Just posted a video https://t.co/zhqQOC22IO

[Free Write Arts & Literacy @FreeWriteChi]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/qu9pyxr5cW