“Don’t forget to include Sudan, DR Congo and Tigray in your Advocacy. 🖤
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word ‘love’ here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” – James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time”
Stay Informed:
@sudan.updates
@sdn.world
@forsudaneseliberation
@standwithtigray
@omnatigray
@peaceintigray
@focuscongo
@congofriends
@thefutureofcongo
@iheartafricadotorg
Also @red_maat has really been holding it down for Sudan, Congo and Tigray. Check their page for tons of info and resources. Appreciate you!🖤”
Thank you @devthepineapple
#blm #keepeyesonsudan #genocost #freetigray #solidarity #panafrican #onelove #africa #trending #viral
“Don’t forget to include Sudan, DR Congo and Tigray in your Advocacy. 🖤
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word ‘love’ here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” – James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time”
Stay Informed:
@sudan.updates
@sdn.world
@forsudaneseliberation
@standwithtigray
@omnatigray
@peaceintigray
@focuscongo
@congofriends
@thefutureofcongo
@iheartafricadotorg
Also @red_maat has really been holding it down for Sudan, Congo and Tigray. Check their page for tons of info and resources. Appreciate you!🖤”
Thank you @devthepineapple
#blm #keepeyesonsudan #genocost #freetigray #solidarity #panafrican #onelove #africa #trending #viral
“Don’t forget to include Sudan, DR Congo and Tigray in your Advocacy. 🖤
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word ‘love’ here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” – James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time”
Stay Informed:
@sudan.updates
@sdn.world
@forsudaneseliberation
@standwithtigray
@omnatigray
@peaceintigray
@focuscongo
@congofriends
@thefutureofcongo
@iheartafricadotorg
Also @red_maat has really been holding it down for Sudan, Congo and Tigray. Check their page for tons of info and resources. Appreciate you!🖤”
Thank you @devthepineapple
#blm #keepeyesonsudan #genocost #freetigray #solidarity #panafrican #onelove #africa #trending #viral
“Don’t forget to include Sudan, DR Congo and Tigray in your Advocacy. 🖤
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word ‘love’ here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” – James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time”
Stay Informed:
@sudan.updates
@sdn.world
@forsudaneseliberation
@standwithtigray
@omnatigray
@peaceintigray
@focuscongo
@congofriends
@thefutureofcongo
@iheartafricadotorg
Also @red_maat has really been holding it down for Sudan, Congo and Tigray. Check their page for tons of info and resources. Appreciate you!🖤”
Thank you @devthepineapple
#blm #keepeyesonsudan #genocost #freetigray #solidarity #panafrican #onelove #africa #trending #viral
Phew this took a bit to get through but truly hoping it opens up some healthy dialogues as well as setting us up to do the internal work of challenges ourselves.
I wrote this with two things in mind:
1- I’ve seen this #quote used over and over again, usually watered down and seldomly investigated.
2- #thematrix, specifically towards the end of the second movie when Neo finds out that the uprising is actually built into the system. Well it’s just like that, protest and other forms of activism that work within the system are just like that. We continue to replay the cycle expecting something new without pause long enough or fully committing to a world beyond this system. It’s a scary thought for many of us and won’t come with ease. But to break free of the cycle what are you willing to risk?
⁉️Here’s some more questions for reflection⁉️
✨What does dismantling oppression mean to you?
✨ What do you envision when you think of a world outside of colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism?
✨ How would we go from where we are today to where we would like to be?
✨ How genuinely committed to that aim? What are your internal and external barriers?
✨ What were your ancestral ways of being before colonialism invaded and disrupted your culture?
✨ What is the revolution? What does it look like when it’s realized?
We must not only know to fight against what is wrong but also have the foresight to recognize what it is we are aiming to build up to.
Asè
✊🏽Don’t forget to f da a1go by:
🔁 Share this post (very important)
👩🏽💻Comment on this post (5 words not emojis)
♥️ Like this post
💾Save
👀 Follow
💸 Contribute to the requests.
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✨ثورة✨
(thawra/revolution)
#sudan #darfur #tigray #congo #southafrica #yemen #السودان #indigenous #blm #haiti
#indigenous #encampment #biden #🍉 #transformation #audrelorde #instaquotes #metgala #instalike #kimk #kyliejenner #taylorswift #tyla #landback #ancestors #sundayfunday #mothersday
Phew this took a bit to get through but truly hoping it opens up some healthy dialogues as well as setting us up to do the internal work of challenges ourselves.
I wrote this with two things in mind:
1- I’ve seen this #quote used over and over again, usually watered down and seldomly investigated.
2- #thematrix, specifically towards the end of the second movie when Neo finds out that the uprising is actually built into the system. Well it’s just like that, protest and other forms of activism that work within the system are just like that. We continue to replay the cycle expecting something new without pause long enough or fully committing to a world beyond this system. It’s a scary thought for many of us and won’t come with ease. But to break free of the cycle what are you willing to risk?
⁉️Here’s some more questions for reflection⁉️
✨What does dismantling oppression mean to you?
✨ What do you envision when you think of a world outside of colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism?
✨ How would we go from where we are today to where we would like to be?
✨ How genuinely committed to that aim? What are your internal and external barriers?
✨ What were your ancestral ways of being before colonialism invaded and disrupted your culture?
✨ What is the revolution? What does it look like when it’s realized?
We must not only know to fight against what is wrong but also have the foresight to recognize what it is we are aiming to build up to.
Asè
✊🏽Don’t forget to f da a1go by:
🔁 Share this post (very important)
👩🏽💻Comment on this post (5 words not emojis)
♥️ Like this post
💾Save
👀 Follow
💸 Contribute to the requests.
—
✨ثورة✨
(thawra/revolution)
#sudan #darfur #tigray #congo #southafrica #yemen #السودان #indigenous #blm #haiti
#indigenous #encampment #biden #🍉 #transformation #audrelorde #instaquotes #metgala #instalike #kimk #kyliejenner #taylorswift #tyla #landback #ancestors #sundayfunday #mothersday
I’m an abolitionist. Law enforcement doesn’t keep anyone safe, using law enforcement to quell protests doesn’t work. When folks feel repressed they fight back. How do we keep the collective safe? How about using an abolitionist imagination to help bring in the collective? It’s possible to have peaceful protests and also keep everyone safe. Cops won’t do that. They never have and never will.
🙏🏽🫂❣️ 🧿 This incredible conversation which came together with the support of the amazing team at @mother_tongue_magazine was by far the most emotionally charged we have recorded on the podcast to date.
Both Rabbi Brous (@sharonbrous ) and Patrisse Cullors (@osopepatrisse ) are incredible voices within their respective communities but they are also amazing human beings who have chosen in a time of immense divide to look for togetherness and oneness.
Conversations like this heal. Conversations like this build coalition. Conversations like this will be the path to our collective liberation.
Both in front of and behind the camera, we spent this hour misty-eyed, feeling our pain, sharing our truths and making space for one-another’s lived experiences. We also talked through the collective trauma of this moment and how we cope in a time that feels so heavy. Seeing each other’s vulnerability and humanity, and caring for each other so deeply through it, grew us closer together and showed us what is possible when we really see each other. I hope it helps others see it too.
This heart-felt conversation will be live via a bonus episode of @resetthealgorithm tomorrow morning at 9am PT wherever you get your podcasts, and also available for you to read May 1st in the latest edition of Mother Tongue Magazine.
With so much love ❣️
#freetoomaj I’ve learned about this brilliant rapper. His name is Toomaj and he has been sentenced to death. He is an artist using his voice to call out the repression and violence he and is community face inside of Iran.
I grew up in a police state. One that decimated my entire community. Used law enforcement to kill my dreams and created an atmosphere of so much violence I am still traumatized today by it. My work as an abolitionist is calling for global abolition. The Women.Life.Freedom movement is an inspiration.
I hope we can dig deep and build out an intersectional movement that calls on police states around the world and pushes them towards abolition. That’s what I’m going to do. Connect the dots.
#Repost @from____iran
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#BREAKING: Jailed Iranian rapper, Toomaj Salehi is sentenced to death, his lawyer told @sharghdaily1
#ToomajSalehi, a 33-Year-old dissident rapper, was re-arrested in December 2023, less than two weeks after being freed on bail. The outspoken critic of the Islamic Republic regime had previously spent over a year in detention, including 252 days in solitary confinement.
He has been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court of Isfahan on charge of “spreading corruption on earth”
The Islamic Republic has sentenced Toomaj Salehi to death for being the voice of Iranian people. Toomaj is a fearless advocate for freedom, he committed absolutely no crimes.
I’ve been Queer my whole life and out for more than half of it. On this first day of Pride, I’m deeply grateful to be alive and well, sharing the story of my Blackness, Queerness, and womanness and where they intersect.
So many of our Black queer ancestors didn’t make it to be elders, and while I’m not yet an elder, I feel immense gratitude for the aging process. I look back at my childhood and remember the amazing Queer young people I grew up with.
I often think about Malidoma Patrice Somé one of the first West African teachers to talk about Queerness and Transness as integral parts of our spirituality.
Today, on Pride Day, I’m honored to share these beautiful images of my journey from adolescence into adulthood, celebrating being here and Queer. Ashe.
#HappyPride
Images were sourced by Carla Gonzalez and Tallie Ben Daniel!!
Sending love and care to all the deep feelers. And so much love to all my artists and creatives trying to imagine a world more possible than this one we are currently living in.
Drop a 🙏🏾 if you are using art to heal in this current moment.
Calling myself in right now. As well as the collective. I hope the message is heard. I won’t deny any harm happening, and I will fight for collective liberation. And I will challenge all powers and governments complicit in state sanctioned violence that then begets interpersonal violence.
I believe abolition is a framework that can help us in this moment. Not just as massive policy change but also as cultural work and a reframing of our movements.
Sending love and care. Forever.
Housing is a human right. We should feel safe in our homes. We should be able to have a home. Yet, so many young people in LA county are experiencing houselessness.
I too spent some years unhoused as a teen and then in my young adult years. It was challenging because there were limited resources for teenage queer youth.
I am grateful that I get to work with some of the most powerful young people in LA county alongside the homeless initiative to give more spaciousness to the stories that often shape transformative policies in this county.
Thank you @lacountyarts for selecting me for this powerful artist residency!
When Artist 2 Artist guest, @emelmathlouthi , says she creates to redefine the role of “muse” in artist work, she is not only walking her talk, but marching! EMEL’s new album, MRA, demonstrates a dedication to her artistic ethos, all the way down to the team she formed to share it with the world. This week, @osopepatrisse and EMEL examine the role of revolution and abolition in the artistic space, invigorating us with a call to action, not only to effect the change we seek, but to fully embody our artistic license and demand from ourselves that we reside entirely within our universally ordained power. Available wherever you get your podcasts, this episode will have you breaking through your artistic barriers, and ready to follow the muse that is already within you.
If we must die.
Join us tomorrow for a captivating artist conversation exploring gender, sexuality, and Yoruba divinities with Ysamur Flores-Peña and Patrisse Cullors! Hosted by the Fowler Museum at UCLA and Otis College of Art and Design, this event promises to ignite thought-provoking discussions and delve into the intersections of culture, identity, and spirituality.
🗓️ Sat, Apr 6, 2:30-4 p.m. | The Forum, Otis College of Art and Design
Free to attend, RSVP at the link in bio!
Image 1: Patrisse Cullors, still image from They Are With Us: Oya in the Grove, 2023; video directed by Maxwell Addae; cinematography by Samudranil Chatterjee
Image 2: Photo by Todd Westphal
Join us tomorrow for a captivating artist conversation exploring gender, sexuality, and Yoruba divinities with Ysamur Flores-Peña and Patrisse Cullors! Hosted by the Fowler Museum at UCLA and Otis College of Art and Design, this event promises to ignite thought-provoking discussions and delve into the intersections of culture, identity, and spirituality.
🗓️ Sat, Apr 6, 2:30-4 p.m. | The Forum, Otis College of Art and Design
Free to attend, RSVP at the link in bio!
Image 1: Patrisse Cullors, still image from They Are With Us: Oya in the Grove, 2023; video directed by Maxwell Addae; cinematography by Samudranil Chatterjee
Image 2: Photo by Todd Westphal
Abolitionist Meditations, Dedicated to Kikanza.
“Abolitionist Meditations” is an innovative meditation series developed by Patrisse Cullors, artist/abolitionist and co produced by Avriel Epps artist/scholar. This thought-provoking series uniquely combines elements of imagination, healing, and transformation. Cullors and Epps utilize meditative practices as a vehicle to promote a deeper understanding of abolitionist principles, fostering a mental and emotional shift towards a world that is centered in care. The series emphasizes self-awareness and introspection as tools for not only personal growth, but also for societal change, underlining the power of individual and collective healing in the pursuit of transformation. It encourages participants to imagine a world free from violence and harm and to actively work towards a vision, integrating transformative ideals into their daily lives.
This week on Artist 2 Artist, @emelmathlouthi sits down with @osopepatrisse to dissect the intersection of music, feminine energy, and an abolitionist approach to the arts. Her new album, MRA, out TODAY, is created as an ode to its title, which translates from Arabic to “woman”. Every collaborator on the album was a woman, and for an artist who traveled to perform in a highly illegal concert and entirely female underground show in Iran, this is an album created to bring new meaning to the ethos of her sound. EMEL and Patrisse explore the power of a revolutionary voice, using music to invite expanded thought, and shed light on the power of our artistic practices to inform, impact and create the environment in which we’d most like to create. #artist2artist #resetthealgorithm
During this week’s Artist 2 Artist conversation, @osopepatrisse sat down with designer @shahladorriz Dorriz and her son and collaborator @alexandrealirezadorriz , exploring how art is a medium through which to learn from our ancestry and carry it with us into the future. Ali Reza, co-founder of the @crenshawdairymart speaks how the research and work he’s been digging into with his mother have really ratified the powerful connection between art, history, and abolition. Listen today, wherever you stream your podcasts!
@shahrzadchang and @osopepatrisse discuss much more than art on this week’s episode of Artist 2 Artist. They dive into the fascinating depths of language, and how the words and ideas we perceive shape not only our identity, thoughts and expectations, but expression and self-actualization. In charting her journey as an Iranian artist, creating art in a new place with a new audience, we learn how her process changed to be congruent with her new environment. That is what art does, it transcends language and brings us together through our join humanity.
Shahrzad reminds us to examine the perceptions we hold close enough to shape our identity, and that the role of the artist holds power to break the molds into which we were cast, and literally (if that’s your medium) build them a anew.
Join us this week for a powerful conversation about the abolitionist power of art, and the role that individual thought and expression play in remaking the world in which we create.
This week of A2A, @osopepatrisse dives into a well of artistic language, expression and analysis with multi-disciplinary artist @shahrzadchang . Exploring the role of language in both our identity and artistic expression, Patrisse and Shahrzad explore the origins of her experience as an artist in Iran, and the conceptual shift that occurred in arriving to the states and how it affected the language she used to ensure her ethos was reaching her audience with the intended perception. The challenges of creating art under oppressive regimes and the demand an artist feels to find a unique identity, are warring wills, and in this episode, we find an inspiring and steadfast artistic voice in Shahrzad, transparently sharing her journey and reminding each of us that as artists, we can shift from concrete to abstract and stop anywhere in between, in our exploration to reimagine the world that our creations seek to and are inspired by.
In the latest episode of Artist2Artist we are joined by JOJO ABOT, a prolific artist and free thinker who is reimagining the concepts that seem to hold us back.
In this clip, you can see a perfect example of how she thinks about the concepts of forgiveness and reconciliation as an act of love both for one’s self and for those who may have hurt us. “I forgive and I release all hatred left in me” is a lyric from one of JOJO ABOT’s songs that truly resonated with Patrisse when she experienced JOJO ABOT singing it live. Remembering the emotions that performance evoked, and now talking about the thought-process that brought those lyrics to the world, we are able to take a rare step into the mind of the artists and see how art goes from the imagination of one into the heart of another.
Listen to the full episode now wherever you get your podcasts! Link in bio
Looking at the creation process through the eyes of JOJO ABOT is a privilege, as she is letting us into her world and shows us how she reconciles big ideas and translates them into beautiful and digestible works that can resonate with masses.
The privilege of imagination is one such big idea that JOJO ABOT translated for us during this heartfelt conversation. We often overlook the circumstances needed to create, and in doing so forget about a large body of work from artists that may not have the space and time to create as they would choose to. Both the creation and consumption of art comes with a layer of privilege we need to recognize.
This is just one idea that seems simple but is lost until it is called into the light. It takes a lot to create, and the barrier is lifted higher and higher as living standards are pushed lower and lower in our society. This is why talking to artists and shedding light on creation is so important now more than ever. As we attempt to create a more equitable world for everyone, artists are a massive key and catalyst in this shift.
Join this conversation with JOJO ABOT as we continue to unlock the realities of the world we want to live in! Tuesday April 2nd at 9am PT! Link in bio
