“It’s Hot in Here with Silver Lining”

Radio interview along with Justin Schott.

Summer 2023, Issue XXII

In March 2023 thirty-four organizations in Detroit signed on to a statement in solidarity with the abolitionist #StopCopCity protests in Atlanta. The same week I found out that my former classmate, Matthew Ethington II, who was an Officer with the Detroit Police Department committed a murder suicide. This coincidence made me reflect on the relationship between suicide, violence, and abolition.

With River Akemann

Pulling from personal experience as white/mixed allies to Black Liberation and Indigenous resistance movements we seek to share knowledge about how to film events in a "good way" (a term we encountered in Indigenous organizing spaces to describe holistic, thoughtful, and culturally aware approaches). We discuss situation awareness, filming techniques and tips, and what to do after you capture footage.

MEJC Summit: Fighting False Solutions, Healing For Our Future

With Jannan Cornstalk and Dr. Kyle Whyte.

Movements to stop the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline continue to face sharp resistance from industry and the failure of new policies to swiftly end Line 5 and transition toward just and renewable energy. The session covers updates on recent actions that people t against Line 5 and some of the recent developments that threaten the resistance against the pipeline, including the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Runner Detroit

“... We are at home among the ruins, insulated from judgment or judging by quilts of graffiti hanging on crumbling walls. In the dusk we experiment more and the urban decay that fostered our creativity now harbors a mummy made of gauze inhabiting the borderlands between life, death, and rebirth. I feel the blood rush in my veins as the person who I thought I was dies and my spirit expands beyond my body melding with the haunting twilight.”

BIE

Interview and photos featured in coverage of the George Floyd rebellion.