talnce

Facilitating Freedom & Flight. Educator, Activist, Work in Progress. Teaching #WrongfulConviction course this semester #WCRIT. Course acct. for @talilalewis.

[HEARD (behearddc.bsky.social) @behearddc]

John Wilson is a Black Deaf man who was incarcerated for 25 yrs after DC's police used finger-spelling to interrogate him about a serious crime.

HEARD worked on his case for over a decade. We fought to get him out & now he's coming home!

PLEASE DONATE!

https://t.co/EkNx0lBhAS

[HEARD (behearddc.bsky.social) @behearddc]

HEARD, LRID & 20+ orgs released a letter in solidarity with #PrisonStrike2018.

No more abuse/exploitation of imprisoned Deaf or hearing people!

ASL: https://t.co/kNObwsArrV
Spanish/English: https://t.co/BITy0Kyhw1

#August21
#PrisonStrike
#DeafInPrison
#DisabilitySolidarity

[Talila A. Lewis, Esq. | talilalewis.bsky.social @talilalewis]

The state of Georgia arrested my friend and at least seventeen others today at the Georgia State Capitol.

They were at the Capitol demanding that the state #CountEveryVote.

DONATE to @ignitekindred's bail fund to get them out: https://t.co/FoewOcVrMp

#DisabilitySolidarity

[Innocence Project @innocence]

“They were basically arresting people and framing them or were claiming that they were involved in drug offenses that either didn’t occur or didn’t occur the way that those police officers said.” -Mark Rotert, Chief of IL Conviction Integrity Unit. https://t.co/vZZerne1Vn

[Talila A. Lewis, Esq. | talilalewis.bsky.social @talilalewis]

I just donated to Antwon M. Rose II's Memorial Fund. Please donate as you are able & share widely.

Love to his family & to the community organizers+builders who are making sure the truth is told.

#AntwonRose

https://t.co/jPG5e6kZXH

[HEARD (behearddc.bsky.social) @behearddc]

"...At every stage—arrest, interrogation, trial, sentencing, prison, & parole—deaf people are more susceptible to going to prison more often, staying longer, suffering more, & returning to prison faster." -@talilalewis

#DeafInPrison
#DisabilitySolidarity
https://t.co/g9bMkjhgrp

[Midwest Innocence Project @The_MIP]

Today, Rodney Lincoln was reunited with his family after serving 36 years and 9 days for a crime he did not commit. He was released today after Gov. Greitens commuted his sentence to time served.

[H. Tubman Collective @HTCSolidarity]

Part of a series re the disability community's white supremacy problem.

A Response to exploitation of Disabled Black/POC folks by white researchers/journalists & the entities that fund them.

https://t.co/L3HUjU6lUZ

#PassThePublication
#DisabilitySolidarity
#DisabilityTooWhite

[HEARD (behearddc.bsky.social) @behearddc]

If Addiction Is a Disease, Why Is Relapsing a Crime?

#DecriminalizeDisability
#DisabilitySolidarity
#DeafRecovery
#DeafInPrison

https://t.co/EYRmk9l4qw

[Jeremy Stock @stockman214]

“Regardless of whether her lawyer did a good job or a bad job, if we later on find out we have an innocent person in prison, they should be released,” - @JustinoBrooks
https://t.co/THdiXFFIt8

[HEARD (behearddc.bsky.social) @behearddc]

#HEARDwebinar at 1pm ET today!

Some of the most critically intersectional organizers-@notthreefifths+@autistichoya+@naijabo-will discuss:

Building Access-Centered Movements

Youth Advocate @MicahzLewis will be hosting!

Register: https://t.co/HugJxm8guW

#DisabilitySolidarity

[HEARD (behearddc.bsky.social) @behearddc]

HEARD 2018 FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN!

Application submissions will be accepted in #ASL or written English & we must be submitted by NOON EST on March 16, 2018.

For more information on eligibility, stipend & more, please visit:
https://t.co/4i3qBPm2to

#DeafInPrison

[John Edwards @JCE_IC]

Oh hai - New Zealand here, we get all your video games and movies. But we don’t massacre children in their classrooms. It must be something else. https://t.co/j1gcS4JMb0

[HEARD (behearddc.bsky.social) @behearddc]

Today, in honor of HEARD's 7th anniversary, we will release #ASL/English applications for our first paid Fellowship!

We look forward to receiving & reviewing applications from some of you!

#HEARDFellows
#DeafAccessToJustice
#DeafInPrison
#DisabilitySolidarity

[Talila A. Lewis, Esq. | talilalewis.bsky.social @talilalewis]

If anyone has the ear+heart of Taraji or John, please tell them not to leave out #EmmettTill's disability or Mamie Till-Mobley's instilling #DisabilityJustice principles before we knew what it was. Tell 'em that we are counting on them to honor his full humanity & save our lives. https://t.co/d5yuN9eDRl

[talnce @talnce]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Talila A. Lewis, Esq. | talilalewis.bsky.social @talilalewis]

Not one word about Black/Indigenous folks w/ #polio+post-polio symptoms in recent convos/article re: "last iron lungs."

In 2017, we're still erasing Black/PoC Disabled folks & peddling racist-ableist myths of 20th c. eugenicists.

#DisabilitySolidarity

https://t.co/FdPkNyvU5h

[Innocence Project @innocence]

You don’t need to sit in court or be a lawyer to learn about wrongful conviction. Here's a list of TV shows and movies to get you up to speed: https://t.co/N1bAknPNur