Educator. Organizer. Cultural Critic. Writer. Bylines: Ebony, Essence, Shondaland, Bitch +. Director of @upendmovement. Opinions presented are mine. (She/her)
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.
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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
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.
Watch full video by @TexasCASA 🔗 https://t.co/MjeVd5oHaB
Maya Pendleton @mvpendleton talks with @dylanrodriguez, @jonubian, and @oJaison about how she sometimes "hits a wall" with people when talking about family policing abolition.
Listen to "Reforms Don't Work". 🎧 https://t.co/hK6Xc7x9vb
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.
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"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
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!
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
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:
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!)