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Clinical Law Professor @templelaw. Senior Fellow @StoneleighFoundation. Mom. Family Policing Abolitionist. Family & Trauma Aware Advocate. 💍 to @davidalove.bsky.social
A delightful few days at the #SEALS2025 conference catching up with wonderful colleagues. Highlights included moderating a dynamic session titled “The Scholarship and Impact of Dorothy Roberts,” & participating in the family law pedagogy workshop. Heading home filled with exciting ideas and seafood!
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#freedomiscoming #tprwillend
#abolitionism #stolenchildrensmonth
In True Narratives: Framing the Pain, Punishment & Lethality of Termination of Parental Rights, through the practice of abolitionism, Corey Best and I seek to make the chains visible, beginning to excavate the true costs of family policing’s relentless reliance on the civil death penalty.
10.06.2025 02:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0What will it take to make our chains visible and practice a collective reckoning- that holds a sacred reminder that freedom has and must always remain the vision.
10.06.2025 02:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What if the truth is hiding in plain sight, cloaked in the shame and silencing of the wounds of grieving parents and stolen children — normalized by a society that sees their pain as deserved?
10.06.2025 02:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What if appeals to morality hold little sway, because a twisted notion of morality —which once sanctified the auction block, but now justifies the pain and punishment of termination of parental rights - was forged into the chains of injustice?
10.06.2025 02:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What myths, forged in the furnace of anti-Blackness, uphold this peculiar system’s reliance on the civil death penalty—the permanent severing of Black families - a legacy of forced family separation which reverberates for generations?
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What if we practiced living in truth, where we understand family policing as nothing but a modern day plantation—reborn in bureaucracy—where the chains are legal, the overseers wear badges, and the lash is replaced with court orders?
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New article drop! Corey B Best & I seek to reveal the death-making nature of termination of parental rights thru #truenarratives, arguing sustainable, positive change cannot occur if TPR reigns as a mainstay threat & tool for decimating familial connection journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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What a joy to discuss Decarceralizing and Decolonizing Family Law at #lsa2025 with such a phenomenal group! I could have chatted all day with Corey B Best, Tianna Gibbs , Emily Poor, Lisa Washington, and Jessica Dixon Weaver !
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Panel on incorporating family defense into family law clinics ✅ Attending @baltlegal ‘s LawyerUp! event ✅ Beautiful weather & vistas ✅ Phenomenal food ✅ Connecting with inspiring colleagues & friends new & old ✅ #aalsclinical2025
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My love for Charm City is part of my lineage, but Bal’more owes me nothing after the magic of these 4 days 🦀 🪄 Panel discussion on how law clinics can leverage the movement to abolish family policing ✅ Co-facilitating 3 discussion groups on family defense ✅
30.04.2025 01:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks for boosting!
28.04.2025 12:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This was a fun discussion #aalsclinical2025
28.04.2025 12:58 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Along with the students, this journey wouldn’t be possible without the support of the Stoneleigh Foundation, the partnership (and patience) of community & movement leaders (you know who you are!), and the phenomenal contributions of clinic fellow Tiffany Cobb
23.04.2025 01:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have often said this year felt like building a plane while flying it, yet I am so deeply proud of our advocacy in partnership and solidarity with families and family-led community partners so far, and we are JUST getting started!
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As this semester draws to a close, I have such deep gratitude for the law students who have joined me on a journey of imagining, creating and learning, which has resulted in the formation of the new Family Justice Clinic at @templelaw.bsky.social
23.04.2025 01:52 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Nicely said, @davidalove.bsky.social
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More great writing from Steve Volk, and not just because he quotes yours truly
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Important piece by Steve Volk
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Wow, thank you!
01.04.2025 01:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh hey, it’s publication day. A pleasure to collaborate with Taleed El-Sabawi on this piece.
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Shame on Columbia University Fascism wins. They can have the degree back. Signed, 1 enraged alum
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