Always incredibly proud and inspired by the organizing work I get to do with Alan Dettlaff and the entire upEND Movement team. Alan has a brilliant book coming out soon about the history of Black family separations in the US. Oh! And listen to our first podcast Ep!

While I’m here sharing upEND Movement news, we recently launched a call for our very first PRIZED art publication. If you’re looking to publish visual art, poetry or short fiction that connects to abolition visioning, please consider submitting!

Texas Is Quietly Leading the Way on Limiting Child Protective Services Overreach texasmonthly.com/news-politics/… (Thank you @strawburriez for including my thoughts in this important piece!)

Great 🧵about industry and, well, capitalism.

Can’t wait to watch this!

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

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: dreamhampton.com/post/free-the-…

"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." teenvogue.com/story/the-chil…

BIG Congrats DJ Scholarship (A Framework) ! Can’t wait to pick this up!

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 upEND Movement, please join us tonight at Kindred Stories at 7:30 pm!

I wrote about Ibram Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research and the broader implications for the movement against racism. newyorker.com/news/our-colum…

TONIGHT: Jaison Oliver and Josie Pickens 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. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Maya Pendleton Maya Pendleton talks with Dylan Rodríguez, Josie Pickens, and Jaison Oliver about how she sometimes "hits a wall" with people when talking about family policing abolition. ⁠ ⁠ Listen to "Reforms Don't Work". 🎧 upendmovement.org/episode1-6/

I joined this app FIFTEEN YEARS AGO! Wow.

upEND's Program Director Josie Pickens was featured on the latest episode of The Fix by Texas CASA. Full video 🔗: youtube.com/watch?v=bpHpGu…

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 Texas CASA 🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=bpHpGu…

This work ❤️

New season of upEND Movement podcast starts now!