In the park I practiced handstands against a tree. People passed by with their signs, Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police, on their way to the protest. Someone in a full Spiderman costume asked if I could teach him how to do handstands. At the vigil people handed out candles and neighbors gave each […]
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Juneteenth
When I say abolish the police, I also mean the cop in my head and in my heart. — Tourmaline, artist, filmmaker, activist
I believe in a world without prisons
I believe in a world without prisonswithout police without borders without detention centers without ICE I started believing in these things after I read Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown. I specifically remember reading the line in the book where she said, I believe in a future without prisons. And I remember thinking, wow that’s […]
Creating a second class citizen
I don’t really know where to start with this one. I guess with Kalief Browder who spent three years on Rikers Island, an infamous New York City prison, for nothing. I mean, really, for nothing. Kalief was accused at the age of sixteen of stealing a man’s backpack. He said he was not guilty and he […]
Anne Foster 