Educator. Organizer. Cultural Critic. Writer. Bylines: Ebony, Essence, Shondaland, Bitch . Director of @upendmovement. Opinions presented are mine. (She/her)
Joined February 2009
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10 Dec 2021
Happy to share that I’m joining the @upendmovement team as its program director. UpEND’s goal is to interrogate and dismantle the family policing system, which is more commonly known as the child welfare system.
Follow @upendmovement! Dream with us! Another world is possible!
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5 Oct 2024
New season of @upendmovement podcast starts now!
19 Sep 2024
Hosts Josie Pickens @jonubian and @oJaison explore questions of #solidarity in Season 2 of the upEND Podcast which premieres this month.
Listen to the full trailer: upendmovement.org/episode-2-…
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28 Feb 2024
upEND's Program Director @jonubian was featured on the latest episode of The Fix by @TexasCASA.
Full video 🔗: youtube.com/watch?v=bpHpGuhq…
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Josie Pickens retweeted
8 Mar 2024
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 @TexasCASA 🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=bpHpGuhq…
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18 Jan 2024
Maya Pendleton @mvpendleton talks with @dylanrodriguez, @jonubian, and @oJaison 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…
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6 Dec 2023
TONIGHT: @oJaison and @jonubian 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/regi…
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21 Oct 2023
I wrote about Ibram Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research and the broader implications for the movement against racism.
newyorker.com/news/our-colum…
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12 Sep 2023
"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…
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12 Sep 2023
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 @upendmovement, please join us tonight at @kindred_stories at 7:30 pm!
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14 Aug 2023
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-t…
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11 Aug 2023
I went to an exhibit of 50 years of Hip Hop photography. OutKast by Timothy White. Look how young they are. :)
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2 Aug 2023
Great 🧵about industry and, well, capitalism.
2 Aug 2023
Amazon is facing an $8B/year problem.
• ~75% of employees leave the company
• Only 1/3 of new hires stay for >90 days
• 100% employee turnover in warehouses (double the industry average)
But it gets even worse.
Let me explain:
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29 Jul 2023
Texas Is Quietly Leading the Way on Limiting Child Protective Services Overreach texasmonthly.com/news-politi… (Thank you @strawburriez for including my thoughts in this important piece!)
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13 Jul 2023
While I’m here sharing @upendmovement 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!
11 Jul 2023
The deadline to submit to our Afrofuturist publication is Oct. 31! Finalists will be selected by one of our three featured judges #AdamPendleton, @livelifedeep, and @kieselaymon and win a prize of up to $1,000!
upendmovement.org/dream/
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13 Jul 2023
Always incredibly proud and inspired by the organizing work I get to do with @AlanDettlaff and the entire @upendmovement 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!
12 Jul 2023
.@AlanDettlaff speaks about his time working in the family policing system and what he calls "a culture of removal". Today his work focuses on ending the harm that results from this system.
Listen to the full episode: upendmovement.org/episode1-0…
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