When the freeze wears off, continued.

File under: vibe check, recovery, journalism crisis, independent journalism, healing, abolition, internalized capitalism

Audio recording / vibe check with my take on what it means for the freeze to wear off (a slight continuation of the last posted interview with Briauna, but okay to listen to this one if you hadn’t listened to that interview yet; it’ll still make sense).

ICYMI here’s my latest letter from the editor for Mainline.

Here are the resources from the Southern Movement Assembly (SMA) Freedom & Survival School course “Hot D.A.M.” (decolonization, abolition, mutual aid) for those who want to keep up with what I’m reading:

Free copy of the Indigenous People’s History online:
https://www.panafricanperspective.com/An%20Indigenous%20Peoples%20History%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Ortiz.pdf

Excerpts from For Indigenous Minds Only – a decolonization handbook
Overview:
https://sarweb.org/media/files/sar_press_for_indigenous_eyes_only.pdf

Chapter One: https://sarweb.org/media/files/sar_press_for_indigenous_minds_only_chapter_1.pdf

Videos and audio from the author of Recovering Your Sacredness
https://www.natureevolutionaries.com/teleseminars-1/2020/recovering-our-sacredness-our-medicine-in-times-of-struggle-with-jerry-tello

Solidarity,
Aja

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INDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This post was recorded and written on the unceded ancestral lands of the Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee, East) tribe, on what is now so-called Nashville, Tenn.