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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · Aug 14

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...

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Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective @beamorg.bsky.social · Aug 27

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.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · Aug 27

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.

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · Aug 16

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...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Aug 14

UPCOMING WORKSHOP 💕
we forgot to post here 🥲

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.

Pedagogy in Pandemic Times: Trauma-Informed Practice and Disability Justice with griffin epstein

AUGUST 18
6:30-8:30 EST ON ZOOM
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Aug 12

#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...

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · Aug 12

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...

Revolutionary Care as Political Warfare

Audre Lorde, Andaiye, and a Critique of Self(ish) Care

open.substack.com

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Aug 11

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:

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

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Prism @prismreports.org · Aug 11

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.

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”

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · Jul 11

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!

Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Jul 2

Announcement 📣📣 We now have an easy and functional way for you to donate for past workshops that you may have missed and want to watch the recording for. Link here: airtable.com/app2F3TGsD60...

Airtable | Everyone's app platform

Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · Jul 9

"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

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jun 30

“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.”

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."

www.motherjones.com

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · Jun 30

Tonight! There’s still time to register.

Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · Jun 28

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...

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...

www.workshops4gaza.com

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · Jun 28

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...

Spirituality Is Not a Substitute for Study

African Spiritual Traditions and the Necessity of Revolutionary Theory

open.substack.com

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · Jun 28

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...

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...

www.workshops4gaza.com

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · Jun 20

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?...

Care For The People: Who Cares? Racial Capitalism, Social Reproduction, and Collective Entanglement

YouTube video by New Economy Coalition

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · May 25

“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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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · May 25

“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/

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Prism @prismreports.org · Mar 31

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...

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,

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Mar 28

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...

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

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · Mar 26

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.

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · Mar 25

“…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.”

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · Mar 25

“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.”

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · Mar 25

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✨

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Mar 24

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.

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This is Hossam's team, and we are sharing his final message :
"If you're reading this, it means I have been killed
-most likely targeted-by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old-a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents
-anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people's side.
By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest-something I haven't known in the past 18 months. I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.
I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza.
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.

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