Don’t tell me what you’ve seen. What have you tried?
I need the implementers to the front.
Zedé
Reflections on community and alternative system building, combining lived experience with practical approaches for meaningful change.
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If You Say Black Women Should Lead, Then Follow
Calling out a continuous issue I see in movement spaces. Inspired by a conversation with Lezley, Michael Brown's mother.
His Name Is Michael Orlandus Darrion Brown
I sat down with Lezley to talk about grief and what it really means to follow the mother a movement was built around.
Unfortunately, community will inconvenience tf out of you
Not ALL the time, but...
Come Outside First, Then Curate Your Ideology
There’s been an insane wave of perfectly spoken, academia-centered creators telling us word for word, bar for bar, what framework is the most accurate, what ideology is the most perfect path to our liberation.
I guess people think I'm conservative?
Why believing we are capable to be our own safety net has been viewed as a problem or something
Your rage has nowhere to go
And the internet encourages you to keep storing it inside your body
Your critique of structure is a trauma response
And it's why we see so many slogans and very little discipline or organization.
Abolitionists Are Focused on the Wrong Thing
The dismantle-and-rebuild framework has carried me for years. And then it didn't.
Have we become as carceral as the systems we despise?
What five days with incarcerated youth in Cleveland, Ohio taught me