Justice is BirthingNew Worlds
Justice is BirthingNew Worlds
We do need to tell the story of harm of injustice, but I’ve also been in the prison, and those people aren’t just walking around broken. There are people, and I’m talking about people with life sentences, who have fuller lives than a lot of people that I see free outside. So that’s sometimes a hard kind of narrative to share. When we are talking about the harms of the institutions and how it needs to be abolished, I continue to tell how brilliant people are on the inside, the poets that are on the inside. I went to prison and I got free, which is part of my own story. I had to go to prison to get my own humanity.Anisah Sabur
There are times I want to believe we can fix thisJhody Polk
One of the powerful things for me was when I understood resistance is no longer participating in the harm caused by organizations
It puts the responsibility [on us] to create something new. When I said no it really caused me to become me.
If I stand against something what am I for?
We need spaces where we can say the things the way we say them. I don’t have to perform for you. Dance for you. I can just be. That’s resistance all day longMonica Cosby
I was born into royaltyTiara Howlett
My grandmother was a black panther 87 years old
I come from resilient black women
We might have been poor and in poverty
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They were resilient working
They were part of something revolutionary
She found a way out of no where, she didn’t have much but she found a way
She found a way out of no way
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I come from royalty
My grandma is royalty
They aint complaining
They are making it happen
Jhody PolkHolding on to my humanity and the world around me. That is the essence of the power of a Black woman.”
Judy ClarkThe outrage can’t take me where I need to go.
I need to take it be able to hold all of that and with an open heart open fierce heart move forward
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