In the summer of 2020, I started an Instagram project sharing articles, essays, and other writings that I found useful or interesting. Sharing links on Twitter and Facebook is already easy; I just wanted to find a way to use what little IG platform I had/have to do something other than just promote myself (not that there’s anything wrong with that). I wanted to share some of the most powerful writing on the pandemic, abolition, anti-authoritarianism, the climate crisis, and other issues that define this moment. Here’s the list so far:
- How the Pandemic Defeated America (Ed Yong)
- We Should Still Defund the Police (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)
- The Abolition Movement (Josie Duffy Rice)
- Ur-Fascism (Umberto Eco)
- On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic (Jesmyn Ward)
- “Enough Is Enough” Report and Toolkit (MPD150)
- An ICE Nurse Revealed That A Georgia Detention Center Is Performing Mass Hysterectomies (Izzie Ramirez)
- Saturday Afternoon Thoughts on the Apocalypse (Kelly Hayes)
- The Life Breonna Taylor Lived, In The Words Of Her Mother (Tamika Palmer via Ta-Nehisi Coates)
- Bystander Intervention Guide (Southern Poverty Law Center)
- Aching for Abolition (Camonghne Felix)
- Between the Waves (Ricardo Levins Morales)
- The Tenants Who Evicted Their Landlord (Matthew Desmond)
- How COVID-19 Has Impacted the Search for Separated Families (Michelle Wiley & Adriana Morga)
- Earth’s New Gilded Era (Vann R. Newkirk II)
- Mass Protest Is Coming and the Cops Are on Trump’s Side (Kelly Hayes)
- So You’re Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist (Mariame Kaba)
- ‘No One Is Listening to Us’ (Ed Yong)
- The Pandemic Safety Rule That Really Matters (Rachel Gutman)
- Defund the Police and Refund the Communities (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)
- Not Just Another Pipeline (Louise Erdrich)
- The Actions of the (Well-Funded) Capitol Police Show Why We Need to Defund the Police (D.A. Bullock)
- The problem is white supremacy (Barbara Smith)
- The women who brought down Burger Records (Jessica Gelt)
- post nationalism in the age of cooptation and other dumpster fires (adrienne maree brown)
- Chronic Illness and COVID-19: Understanding the Financial and Physical Costs (Jacqui Germain)
- Responding as a Bystander (Hollaback)
- “What Are We Going to Do About It?” Mariame Kaba Talks Abolition in Action (Jindu Obiofuma & James Kilgore interviewing Mariame Kaba)
- Working Two Jobs, and Barely Surviving (Bridget Read)
- Wisconsin’s anti-transgender sports bills strike at a fragile moment in LGBTQ politics (Emily Mills)
- Bystander intervention trainings to stop anti-Asian violence from Hollaback and AAJC + AAJC-Atlanta’s statement
- ‘People can’t turn their backs anymore’: Asian American women often feel invisible. After Atlanta spa killings, they’re making their pain public (Becky Z. Dernbach)
- Attacks on Asian Women Are Fueled by Criminalization, War and Economic Injustice (Rachel Kuo & Salonee Bhaman)
- Visibility Alone Will Not Keep Transgender Youth Safe (Chase Strangio and Raquel Willis)
- To End Mass Incarceration, We Need to Bust the Myths That Prop It Up (Victoria Law interviewed by James Kilgore)
- MPD150’s Resources Page
- Abolition Is a Collective Vision: An Interview With Mariame Kaba (Elias Rodriques)
(this list will be continually updated)
You can find my own writing on some of these topics and more here.
