We took a surprise trip to Atlanta last month for the #StopCopCity Week of Action with a contingent of youth and adult allies from the #NoCopAcademy campaign in Chicago. We participated in a Black-led march, and screened a rough cut of Soap Box Productions’ #NoCopAcademy documentary for ATL organizers! It was a huge honor to…
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We’re grateful to be back in Chicago after an amazing experience in Puerto Rico with Ivelisse Díaz, Edrimael Delgado, and the Navigating Blackness/Navegando lo Negro exchange. In addition to the incredible conversations that took place during our week of programming, we were also able to join La Escuelita Bombera de Corazón for part of their…
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We’re on our way to San Juan, where we’ll be mounting the second installment of our Black Performance Exchange, Navegando lo Negro/Navigating Blackness! We’re looking forward to a busy week at La Goyco, where we’ll be reconnecting with our loves from LaBoriVogue and EspicyNipples. We’ll be teaching a bilingual Intro to Prison Abolition workshop, sharing…
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We closed out June with a journalism roundtable at the Chicago Transformation Collab, joining Cara Reedy, Sarah Stillman, Keri Blakinger, Maya Schenwar, Josie Duffy Rice, and Jacqui Germain to discuss the role of writers and editors in interrogating carceral narratives, and pushing their readership towards abolition. It was a crucial conversation in a moment where…
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Benji Hart 