Decolonial Feminist Collective

What does democracy demand of Black life? Join us on November 23rd and December 7th at 2pm ET, for our final collective study group of 2025, as we map these connections between Brazil and the U.S.

Register: bit.ly/AntiBlackCity

Advocates spotlight U.S. complicity in Sudan genocide A lack of media coverage and international pressure leaves many in Sudan in the dark after el-Fasher was seized by the Rapid Support Forces

Advocates spotlight U.S. complicity in Sudan genocide, @nehamadhira.bsky.social reports. A lack of media coverage & international pressure leaves many Sudanese communities in the dark after el-Fasher was seized by the Rapid Support Forces.

On Aug. 30th, I’m teaching a hybrid workshop linking the spiritual + political for #BlackAugust w/ EndState ATL + @decolonialfc.bsky.social! We will consider what political prisoners can teach us about spiritual discipline and dedication?

Register: bit.ly/WriteforBlac...

"When we say BLACK, we mean EVERYBODY BLACK." The word "EVERYBODY" is highlighted in orange. Below the text is the BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective) logo. At the bottom, there is a diverse group of illustrated Black individuals wearing clothing featuring various national flags, including Brazil, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Argentina, Cuba, South Africa, Haiti, Ethiopia, and more — representing the global and intersectional nature of Black identity.

When we say Black, we mean EVERYBODY Black. 

Blackness is not one story, one language, or one flag. It spans across continents, cultures, and histories — including the voices, brilliance, and resilience of Black immigrants in the United States.

Widespread contempt defines the USA these days. The most heartbreaking and tragic situations often seem to get less sympathy than they once did. Instead, many responses center on unflinching callousness and despicable scapegoating, pushing the country further into its spiraling downfall.

We’re co-hosting a Black August Writing Workshop series! Fiction writing against cop cities, George Jackson and persuasive writing, and linking the spiritual and political.

Register to join us online or in-person: bit.ly/WriteforBlac...

Pedagogy in Pandemic Times: Trauma-Informed Practice and Disability Justice with griffin epstein AUGUST 18 6:30-8:30 EST ON ZOOM workshops for gaza

UPCOMING WORKSHOP 💕
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What does anti-colonial education mean in a "landless" modality that relies on global and local infrastructures of extraction, exploitation and death?

griffin epstein takes us thru this and other Qs in "Pedagogy in Pandemic Times," Aug. 18.

#OtD 12 Aug 1933 a general strike from Cuba's militant workers' movement brought down the authoritarian regime of President Gerardo Machado stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8372...

Revolutionary Care as Political Warfare Audre Lorde, Andaiye, and a Critique of Self(ish) Care

My latest examining how Lorde’s revolutionary vision of care was transformed into neoliberal “self(ish) care” — and what we can learn from her friendship with Andaiye. open.substack.com/pub/decoloni...

Ghassan Kanafani and the specter of Palestinian statehood with Hazem Jamjoum Friday august 15, 12:30-2:30 EST

Students not soldiers: demilitarizing our schools and communities, led by David Morales, Oren Robinson and Ana Yelí Ruiz workshops for gaza Saturday August 16, 10-11:30 am PST

heartbroken and angry but there are still many people fighting for their lives in Palestine today.

support them by donating and learning about their struggles for Palestinian liberation AND about how ppl in the imperial core are offering youth alternatives to soldiering

join us this fri and sat:

Farewell to Anas, Mohammed, and the companions of truth In Gaza, the journalist has become a direct target. Carrying a camera here is like wearing a mark on your forehead that reads, “Kill me”

In Gaza, the journalist has become a direct target. Carrying a camera here is like wearing a mark on your forehead that reads, “Kill me.” In a new op-ed, Shaimaa Eid honors Anas, Mohammed, & their 240+ companions of truth, killed by the Israeli military since the most recent genocide in Gaza began.

If you missed my workshop “Confronting Reproductive Imperialism: Criminalization, Cop Cities, + the Transnational Fight for Reproductive Justice” earlier this year, it’s not too late to check it out! There have been so many great ones! $ goes to the sameer project, and you might learn something new!

"We are not powerless. We are indispensable despite all the atrocities of state and corporate policy to the contrary. At minimum, we have the power to stop cooperating with our enemies."

—June Jordan

How viability limits end up criminalizing pregnancy Pregnancy Justice's legal director, Karen Thompson, warns: "We are in dangerous territory. This is our reality now."

“Some of the things that some repro groups believe preserve the right to abortion are actually harming and paving the road to hell for people who are experiencing pregnancy criminalization.”

Tonight! There’s still time to register.

Spirituality Is Not a Substitute for Study African Spiritual Traditions and the Necessity of Revolutionary Theory

New on my substack:

“Spirituality is Not a Substitute for Study: African Spiritual Traditions and the Necessity of Revolutionary Theory”
open.substack.com/pub/decoloni...

Fund Abortion Not War — Workshops 4 Gaza Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40). Step 2: Register for “Fund Abortion Not War” here . In this workshop, three reproductive healthcare providers who have been...

Have y’all registered for this upcoming Fund Abortion Not War workshop hosted by @workshops4gaza.bsky.social?! The money raised will go to the Sameer Project providing on the ground support to Palestinians.
www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/fun...

YouTube video by New Economy Coalition Care For The People: Who Cares? Racial Capitalism, Social Reproduction, and Collective Entanglement

Just added to YouTube from earlier this year, “Who Cares? Racial Capitalism, Social Reproduction, and Collective Entanglement” for New Economy Coalition’s “Care for the People” series: youtu.be/7Q1d070m2Q0?...

“A Pan-African Movement divorced from statecraft and patriarchal politics. Only then would Africa breathe life into the symbolic date of May 25-African Liberation Day.” — Sylvia Tamale

African Liberation Day 🫡

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“The decolonization agenda and decolonial politics are closely bound up with the Pan-African one. Therefore, if Africa is ever going to realize its liberatory vision, it must consciously revitalize Pan-African nationalism outside state structures and mainstream institutions…” 1/

Reflective Journalism Project: Hope in Desolate Times - Prism Bring your newsroom or publication into alignment with movements for liberation Open application through 11:59pm ET, April 18, 2025 Are you a journalist,

Are you a journalist/editor/media maker who wants to align your work with liberation movements? Applications for our next Reflective Journalism Project workshop are open now!
🌼 Apply by April 18
🌷 Sliding scale & scholarships available
🌹 More info here ⤵️
prismreports.org/reflective-j...

workshops for Gaza, @workshops4gaza Representations, Erasures, & Impacts: Thinking with Disability and Archives. Gracen Brilmyer April 24, 5:30-7pm EST online

NEW WORKSHOP!!

April 24, "Representations, Erasures, and Impacts: Thinking with Disability and Archives" with Gracen Brilmyer.
To benefit the Sameer Project's Refaat Alareer Camp.

www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/thi...

There are too many people in the US arguing that they want others abroad to be massacred and destroyed by an administration they feel is “responsible” enough to massacre and destroy.

“…We live in a part of the world, for example, that equates criticism with assault, that equates social responsibility with naive idealism, that defines the unrelenting pursuit of knowledge and wisdom as fanaticism.”

“There are so few truth-speaking traditions in this society in which the myth of "Western civilization" has claimed the allegiance of so many. We have rarely been encouraged and equipped to appreciate the fact that the truth works, that it releases the Spirit, and that it is a joyous thing.”

Today we honor the life and legacy of Toni Cade Bambara-a revolutionary Black feminist, mother, filmmaker, and scholar-activist. We give thanks for her many contributions, courage, and foresight✨

Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free."

- For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.

23 and he knew to leave a death note.

Care is complicated, gendered, misused. It is often mobilized to enact violence, not assuage it, yet I cannot surrender it. I want acts and accounts of care as shared and distributed risk, as mass refusals of the unbearable life, as total rejections of the dead future— @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

Executive Order, February 18, 2025 title: Expanding Access to In Vitro Fertilization. Text: This executive order fails to address one of the greatest threats to IVF: the anti-abortion ideology that gives legal rights to embryos and fetuses, which exists in laws and judicial decisions across the country.

Trump himself had proclaimed that men and women are 'people' from conception. An executive order from January 20, 2025 reads: "Female" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. "Male" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell. The ability to have an abortion, a healthy pregnancy, a healthy newborn, and access to IVF are all connected. It is impossible to support one without the other.

You can’t “expand access to IVF” and support fetal personhood at the same time🫣

If embryos are “people” from conception, this raises the likelihood of criminalization related to the destruction of embryos, a natural part of the IVF process.

People are taking much of this about what the “Founding Fathers” wanted and “checks and balances” too far. This moment is the fulfillment of many of those men's visions. There's no point in pretending they were what they weren't. Fight how you can, but don't reinforce white supremacy in the process.