Josie Pickens

Educator. Organizer. Cultural Critic. Writer. Bylines: Ebony, Essence, Shondaland, Bitch +. Director of @upendmovement. Opinions presented are mine. (She/her)

[Josie Pickens @jonubian]

Happy to share that I’m joining the @upendmovement team as its program director. UpEND’s goal is to interrogate and dismantle the family policing system, which is more commonly known as the child welfare system.

Follow @upendmovement! Dream with us! Another world is possible!

[Josie Pickens @jonubian]

New season of @upendmovement podcast starts now!

[upEND Movement @upendmovement]

Hosts Josie Pickens @jonubian and @oJaison explore questions of #solidarity in Season 2 of the upEND Podcast which premieres this month.

Listen to the full trailer: https://t.co/LT9v4lD4Gx

[Josie Pickens @jonubian]

This work ❤️

[upEND Movement @upendmovement]

upEND's Program Director @jonubian was featured on the latest episode of The Fix by @TexasCASA.

Full video 🔗: https://t.co/MjeVd5oHaB

[upEND Movement @upendmovement]

Disproportionality isn't the problem we're trying to fix. We don't want the family policing system to distribute trauma equally. It's time to dismantle the whole thing to stop the harm of family separations.
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Watch full video by @TexasCASA 🔗 https://t.co/MjeVd5oHaB

[Josie Pickens @jonubian]

I joined this app FIFTEEN YEARS AGO! Wow.

[upEND Movement @upendmovement]

Maya Pendleton @mvpendleton talks with @dylanrodriguez, @jonubian, and @oJaison about how she sometimes "hits a wall" with people when talking about family policing abolition. ⁠
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Listen to "Reforms Don't Work". 🎧 https://t.co/hK6Xc7x9vb

[upEND Movement @upendmovement]

TONIGHT: @oJaison and @jonubian will host a creative visioning session to equip and inspire you to enter Afrofuturist art into our "Dream, Create, Liberate" contest.

Josie and Jaison are founders of Bask Black, a Houston-based arts advocacy initiative.

https://t.co/ASxitgMPsM

[Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @KeeangaYamahtta]

I wrote about Ibram Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research and the broader implications for the movement against racism.
https://t.co/ROxPAp8Wu3

[Kathleen Creamer @FamilyAdvoKat]

"Today, many cases in family court that allege certain types of abuse and neglect are actually byproducts of poverty and community disinvestment that cause tremendous amounts of family displacement." https://t.co/mjz4MR2hfm

[Josie Pickens @jonubian]

TONIGHT HOUSTON!

If you’re interested in history, if you want to help and honor Black families, if you want to learn more about abolition and our work at @upendmovement, please join us tonight at @kindred_stories at 7:30 pm!

[Josie Pickens @jonubian]

BIG Congrats @lynneedenise ! Can’t wait to pick this up!

[Josie Pickens @jonubian]

For many Black girls, celebrating 50 years of Hip Hop is a mixed bag.

Beauty and ashes.

Thank Goddess I found @dreamhampton ‘s “Free The Girls” to serve as both an echo and a balm years ago. It’s still offers both, today: https://t.co/EdvzmzvoJy

[DRR @DiggsWayne]

I went to an exhibit of 50 years of Hip Hop photography. OutKast by Timothy White. Look how young they are. :)

[Josie Pickens @jonubian]

Can’t wait to watch this!

[Josie Pickens @jonubian]

@AlanDettlaff SO EXCITING!

[Josie Pickens @jonubian]

Great 🧵about industry and, well, capitalism.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Amazon is facing an $8B/year problem.

• ~75% of employees leave the company
• Only 1/3 of new hires stay for >90 days
• 100% employee turnover in warehouses (double the industry average)

But it gets even worse.

Let me explain:

[Josie Pickens @jonubian]

Texas Is Quietly Leading the Way on Limiting Child Protective Services Overreach https://t.co/KU0AfBITzd (Thank you @strawburriez for including my thoughts in this important piece!)

[Josie Pickens @jonubian]

@dreamhampton You’re a miracle. ❤️❤️