The upEND Podcast

Playground Experiments (with Maya Schenwar)

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After looking closely at how the family policing system operates, we zoom out to discuss how family policing is an extension of other carceral systems and how abolition is the solution. We just need to stretch our imagination. 


About Our Guest: 

Maya Schenwar is the director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism, and the board president of Truthout. She is the co-author (with Victoria Law) of "Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms," and the author of "Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better." Her next book, a co-edited anthology entitled "Parenting Toward Abolition" (a collaboration with Kim Wilson), will be released in 2024.


Episode Notes: 

  • Episode Transcript: upendmovement.org/episode1-7
  • Support the work of upEND: upendmovement.org/donate 
  • Continue learning with additional resources in our syllabus: upendmovement.org/syllabus
  • Critical Resistance is building an international movement to abolish the prison-industrial complex and creates robust organizing resources. 
  • Just Practice builds communities’ capacity to effectively and empathically respond to intimate partner violence and sexual assault without relying primarily on police or other state-based systems.
  • Interrupting Criminalization offers political education materials, organizing tools, support skill-building and practice spaces for organizers and movements challenging criminalization and the violence of policing and punishment to build safer communities. 
  • Ujimaa Medics is a Black health collective. We spread emergency first response, community care, and survival skills to access health justice and long term wellness for all Black lives.
  • Fumbling Toward Repair is a workbook by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan intended to support people who have taken on the coordination and facilitation of formal community accountability processes to address interpersonal harm & violence. 
  • Connect with Maya’s work at mayaschenwar.com, Truthout.org, and loveprotect.org.
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