Reclaiming Our Collective Memory
In this conversation, Adaku Utah and Mariame Kaba discuss transformative spaces and practices to reclaim our interdependence and collective memory.
“We can be people who refuse to cease remembering people... We know of their labor, we know of their contributions, we know of their legacy, and we keep saying their names, and we keep bringing them up, and we keep making them alive in our moments.”
ABOUT THE EPISODE GUEST
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Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, librarian, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. Kaba is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots abolitionist organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame co-leads the initiative Interrupting Criminalization, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018. She has founded and co-founded many organizations, formations and projects over the past 30 years.
Kaba is the author of the New York Times Bestseller We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Haymarket Press 2021), Missing Daddy (Haymarket 2019), Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Faciltators with Shira Hassan (Project NIA, 2019), See You Soon (Haymarket, March 2022) and No More Police: A Case for Abolition with Andrea Ritchie (The New Press, Aug 2022).
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