Some omitted May updates: We joined young people from the #NoCopAcademy campaign for a screening of SoapBox Productions’ NCA documentary at DePaul University’s downtown campus. Sponsored by 14 East Magazine, we followed the film with a panel discussion alongside Caullen Hudson, Karina Martínez, and Citlali Pérez, discussing how notions of “public safety” have shifted in…
Read MoreJanuary 2022
Welcome to a new chapter, and a new opportunity to build something radical from which future generations can benefit. Our last essay for The Funambulist on copaganda and the coercing of Black and brown youth into police interactions, which first appeared online in August, will be republished in print for the magazine’s 39th issue The…
Read MoreApril 2021
We ended March by facilitating a portion of a staff retreat—including a Poetry Writing workshop—for Dissenters here in Chicago, supporting their efforts to mobilize youth resistance to the U.S. war machine. Our essay in conjunction with Transgender Law Center on trans resistance in Puerto Rico is also now up on Autostraddle, and can be read…
Read MoreMarch 2021
Closing out Black History Month, our essay on the ballroom scene and Black queer resistance to state violence, co-written with Michael Roberson for Time Magazine, is now live. We also sat down for a fascinating conversation with our childhood judy Amira Rose Davis for the feminist sports podcast Burn It All Down. Together we discussed…
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Benji Hart 