4 Search Results for "North America"

Rememory

story by Walidah Imarisha

| USA |

Ayo stood on the edge of the community garden and scanned the gathering in Cityheart. Nearby joyous shrieks poured forth from the park as the young ones played under the loving watchful gaze of today’s caregivers. The wind teased the festively colored tents where elders and others who need it sat for the day’s circle. […]

The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice

Walidah Imarisha |Alexis Gumbs | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | adrienne maree brown | Mia Mingus

| USA |

first published by The New Inquiry OCTAVIA’S Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements is a collection of 20 fantastical short stories and two essays written by organizers, activists, and changemakers. Rooted in the premise that “all organizing is science fiction,” Octavia’s Brood also believes that our movements for justice vitally need spaces where we start […]

Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Nicole Fleetwood

| USA |

Excerpted from MARKING TIME: ART IN THE AGE OF MASS INCARCERATION by Nicole R. Fleetwood, published by Harvard University Press In Ronnie Goodman’s 2008 painting San Quentin Arts in Corrections Art Studio, the artist is alone at work in a studio. The self-portrait locates him inside a cavernous space of multistoried walls and beamed ceilings. […]

Black Self-determination Drawn From Our Roots

by Edmund Ruge

| USA |

It may surprise some of our readers to learn that issues of urban food access in the United States long predate the onset of Covid-19. Entire neighborhoods, often termed “food deserts,” stand bereft of grocery stores and markets, featuring only fast food options for kilometers on end. In such areas, the lack of access to […]