Paula Lehman-Ewing

Social media is 🔥 garbage this morning.

Trump's post is trope, and the comparison of Black people to apes is one of the oldest and most harmful racist tropes in modern history.

Tropes stay alive thru circulation. So pls don't reshare the trope. Name it and replace it with humanity.

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STOP posting Trump's video about the Obamas. This is racist trope and it becomes normalized when you spread it like wild fire. Post about Obamas and their HUMANITY

The Elephant in the Studio | Get Me to the Gray | Episode 3 What happens when a liberal and a conservative sit down — not to debate, but to think out loud together?In this episode of Get Me to the Gray, Paula Lehman-Ewing speaks with Josh Lewis, a CPA, government auditor, and conservative writer behind Saving Elephants, about a core political divide:...

Red vs blue — without the shouting.
A liberal and a conservative sit down to ask whether justice comes from fixing systems… or replacing them.

The Elephant in the Studio What happens when a liberal and a conservative sit down — not to debate,...

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We Can’t Talk About Minneapolis Because We’ve Lost the Ability to Talk at All | Reimagining the Revolution In a moment when politics is increasingly designed to keep us locked in permanent opposition, the gray may be the only place left where something honest — and something lasting — can still be built.

We’re surrounded by outrage, headlines, and certainty — but almost no real dialogue.

This piece is about what happens when politics becomes performance, and why the loss of honest conversation makes accountability impossible.

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The Gray Between Punishment and Prevention | Get Me to the Gray | Episode 2 What do we do when the stories we tell about violence stop helping us solve it?In this episode of Get Me to the Gray, Paula Lehman-Ewing sits down with criminologist David M. Kennedy to confront one of the most uncomfortable questions in public life: how do we reduce violence without falling into...

What actually reduces violence — and why do our answers keep failing? On Episode 2 of Get Me to the Gray, I talk with criminologist David Kennedy about the space between punishment and prevention.

The Gray Between Punishment and Prevention What do we do when the stories we tell about violence stop helping us...

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Get Me to the Gray: The Gray Between Punishment and Prevention. Have a listen:

And You Thought You Lived in a Capitalist Country This episode is about getting to the heart of what capitalism and...

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Get Me to the Gray: And You Thought You Lived in a Capitalist Country. Have a listen:

DENVER On Feb 11, I’m hosting a live Get Me to the Gray conversation at Tattered Cover w/special guest Edwin Raymond.

If you’re local and tired of performative conversations, this is designed to be a room worth sitting in.
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Morning headlines
Me:

This is part of the training to become a member of the military. Now… can we refocus on WHAT UNLAWFUL ORDERS ARE BEING GIVEN?!

Ok I understand the gravity and dangers of appointing unqualified people to powerful positions, but y’all… as someone who has had to read a lot of court opinions, I cannot stop laughing at this #jamescomey #yikes #getoutmycourtroomfool

Literally the only MTG clip I’ve watched in its entirety

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New #prisonart drop!
“The Death of Freedom” is a haunting new piece from incarcerated artist Scotty Scott—where power, punishment, and hypocrisy collide.
Prints now available at reimaginingtherevolu... 🎨🕊️
#ArtAsResistance #PrisonArt #ScottysVision

As we mourn Assata’s passing, her words remain a call to action: freedom is won through struggle, not granted by oppressors. Her legacy challenges us to keep pushing for liberation on our own terms.

#WisdomWednesday #AssataShakur #Liberation

✨ New in the store: Scotty’s Vision art prints ✨

Scotty's work as an incarcerated artist shines with resilience, creativity, and defiance against erasure. 100% of proceeds go to the artist for supplies.

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This is more than art. It’s resistance. It’s survival. It’s vision.

The world has lost a revolutionary voice. Assata Shakur’s 78 years were marked by struggle, exile, and defiance. Her legacy continues to inspire movements for justice and freedom. Rest in power. 👑

📅 #OTD – Sept 23, 1957
Two weeks after being turned away by the Arkansas National Guard, the Little Rock Nine returned to Central High School under federal protection.
They faced spitting mobs, death threats, and daily harassment just to walk through a school door.

#LittleRockNine #BlackHistory

📅 #OTD – Sept 18, 1895
Booker T. Washington delivered his famous Atlanta Exposition speech—calling for Black economic uplift and racial cooperation.
The line “cast down your bucket where you are” would be celebrated by some, criticized by others, and debated for generations.

#Atlanta #BlackHistory

Cabral was a revolutionary leader who organized anti-colonial liberation movements in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. His legacy is a blueprint for principled struggle—one rooted in truth, strategy, and collective power. #WisdomWednesday #AmilcarCabral #LiberationIsHonestWork

Thousands of kids—disproportionately Black, Brown, and poor—are locked up for things that could be handled in schools or communities.

#YouthJustice #EndYouthPrisons #AbolitionNow #DidYouKnow

All the President’s Pawns | Reimagining the Revolution When the D.C. National Guard is used to shield a president who sees his own citizens as the enemy, its oath to defend the Constitution becomes a weapon in service of power, not democracy.

When soldiers patrol the nation’s capital, it raises a deeper question: who is being protected, and who is being policed? #DC #NationalGuard #Policing

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Safety isn't about who shows up with badges and guns.
Elizabeth Hinton reminds us that real safety is clean water, decent housing, and a well-informed public.
#WisdomWednesday #PublicSafety #AbolitionNow #AmericaOnFire

📅 On This Day – Sept 9, 2016
Incarcerated people in over 20 states launched the largest prison strike in U.S. history—refusing to work and demanding an end to prison slavery.
They chose this date to honor the 1971 Attica uprising.

#OTD #PrisonStrike #AtticaUprising #13thAmendment #BlackAugust

🎉 Happy Birthday, Claudette Colvin!
Born #OTD in 1939, she was just 15 when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus—months before Rosa Parks.
Too often left out of the story, Claudette's courage helped launch a movement.

#ClaudetteColvin #BlackHistory #CivilRights #UnsungHeroes

No one should be criminalized for seeking safety.
Borders divide.
Care connects.

#NoHumanIsIllegal #AbolishICE #ThisVsThat

We’re not handed justice—we fight for it.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reminds us that every inch of progress has been won by movements, not mercy.

#WisdomWednesday #BlackLiberation #MovementHistory #KeeangaYamahttaTaylor

We’re funding surveillance over support. That’s not safety. That’s criminalizing kids.

#DidYouKnow #CounselorsNotCops #EducationJustice #AbolitionNow