amadi ozier
@killinitsmalls.bsky.social
dr professor at UW-Madison - humor and black literature - free housing, free abortion, abolish the police
someone said: "u do not need political permission to not like someone's vibe" 💯💕
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
someone said: "u do not need political permission to not like someone's vibe" 💯💕
Huey P. Newton: “He understood that whether he lived or died, the crucial point was that his work would live on--that the people would carry on the fight in his absence”
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Huey P. Newton: “He understood that whether he lived or died, the crucial point was that his work would live on--that the people would carry on the fight in his absence”
I co-founded the Crown Heights CARE Collective in 2022, four months before I left NYC.
I wanted to created a spark hot + contagious enough to outlast me ... and I did !
read how: open.substack.com/pub/killinit...
I wanted to created a spark hot + contagious enough to outlast me ... and I did !
read how: open.substack.com/pub/killinit...
November 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I co-founded the Crown Heights CARE Collective in 2022, four months before I left NYC.
I wanted to created a spark hot + contagious enough to outlast me ... and I did !
read how: open.substack.com/pub/killinit...
I wanted to created a spark hot + contagious enough to outlast me ... and I did !
read how: open.substack.com/pub/killinit...
New playlist - “Winter feels like summer” 💕👒
Tidal: tidal.com/playlist/7a2...
Transfer to any other platform: tunemymusic.com/share/YR6KHf...
!! Take a nature walk - Protest pleasure music. 🎵 Soul, reggae, punk, R&B, and hip-hop. Nina Simone, Jill Scott.
Tidal: tidal.com/playlist/7a2...
Transfer to any other platform: tunemymusic.com/share/YR6KHf...
!! Take a nature walk - Protest pleasure music. 🎵 Soul, reggae, punk, R&B, and hip-hop. Nina Simone, Jill Scott.
winter feels like summer 💕👒
Playlist - winter feels like summer 💕👒 - 91 items
tidal.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
New playlist - “Winter feels like summer” 💕👒
Tidal: tidal.com/playlist/7a2...
Transfer to any other platform: tunemymusic.com/share/YR6KHf...
!! Take a nature walk - Protest pleasure music. 🎵 Soul, reggae, punk, R&B, and hip-hop. Nina Simone, Jill Scott.
Tidal: tidal.com/playlist/7a2...
Transfer to any other platform: tunemymusic.com/share/YR6KHf...
!! Take a nature walk - Protest pleasure music. 🎵 Soul, reggae, punk, R&B, and hip-hop. Nina Simone, Jill Scott.
my first essay out now -- "How to Pass The Torch" 🤸🤸 -- Stop Hoarding Knowledge! Here’s how sharing makes you stronger
open.substack.com/pub/killinit...
open.substack.com/pub/killinit...
How to Pass the Torch: Lessons from Chicago's Community Defense
Stop Hoarding Knowledge! Here’s How Sharing Makes You Stronger
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
my first essay out now -- "How to Pass The Torch" 🤸🤸 -- Stop Hoarding Knowledge! Here’s how sharing makes you stronger
open.substack.com/pub/killinit...
open.substack.com/pub/killinit...
Scientists in the early 1900s hoped that black people would become extinct by 1950
Their math was bad 😉
insurance salesman 🤡 Frantz L. Hoffman, Race Traits & Tendencies of the American Negro, 1896
vs
mathematician Kelly Miller, “Review of Race Traits & Tendencies,” 1898
Their math was bad 😉
insurance salesman 🤡 Frantz L. Hoffman, Race Traits & Tendencies of the American Negro, 1896
vs
mathematician Kelly Miller, “Review of Race Traits & Tendencies,” 1898
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Scientists in the early 1900s hoped that black people would become extinct by 1950
Their math was bad 😉
insurance salesman 🤡 Frantz L. Hoffman, Race Traits & Tendencies of the American Negro, 1896
vs
mathematician Kelly Miller, “Review of Race Traits & Tendencies,” 1898
Their math was bad 😉
insurance salesman 🤡 Frantz L. Hoffman, Race Traits & Tendencies of the American Negro, 1896
vs
mathematician Kelly Miller, “Review of Race Traits & Tendencies,” 1898
Movements run on neurochemistry as much as strategy
Dopamine Organizing: Buzz & Wins 🧁🤩
Cortisol + Adrenaline Organizing: Crisis Mode 🧗🏾🆘
Oxytocin Organizing: Bonding & Relationships 🐶🤝
Serotonin Organizing: Stability 🧘🏾🍲
get stuck in 1 mode (bad) or balance the mix
Dopamine Organizing: Buzz & Wins 🧁🤩
Cortisol + Adrenaline Organizing: Crisis Mode 🧗🏾🆘
Oxytocin Organizing: Bonding & Relationships 🐶🤝
Serotonin Organizing: Stability 🧘🏾🍲
get stuck in 1 mode (bad) or balance the mix
1 thing I'd do differently 💛
I think when we started, I built the Crown Heights Care Collective’s internal infrastructure too much around social media (Instagram, Signal)
it can reward quick reactions, cross-talk 💕💕
dopamine organizing = burnout
I think when we started, I built the Crown Heights Care Collective’s internal infrastructure too much around social media (Instagram, Signal)
it can reward quick reactions, cross-talk 💕💕
dopamine organizing = burnout
October 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Movements run on neurochemistry as much as strategy
Dopamine Organizing: Buzz & Wins 🧁🤩
Cortisol + Adrenaline Organizing: Crisis Mode 🧗🏾🆘
Oxytocin Organizing: Bonding & Relationships 🐶🤝
Serotonin Organizing: Stability 🧘🏾🍲
get stuck in 1 mode (bad) or balance the mix
Dopamine Organizing: Buzz & Wins 🧁🤩
Cortisol + Adrenaline Organizing: Crisis Mode 🧗🏾🆘
Oxytocin Organizing: Bonding & Relationships 🐶🤝
Serotonin Organizing: Stability 🧘🏾🍲
get stuck in 1 mode (bad) or balance the mix
someone recently asked me for book recs
Cane, Jean Toomer
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs (intro by Evie Shockley)
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, Ntzonge Shange
In the Mecca, Gwendolyn Brooks
Corregidora, Gayl Jones
Cane, Jean Toomer
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs (intro by Evie Shockley)
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, Ntzonge Shange
In the Mecca, Gwendolyn Brooks
Corregidora, Gayl Jones
October 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
someone recently asked me for book recs
Cane, Jean Toomer
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs (intro by Evie Shockley)
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, Ntzonge Shange
In the Mecca, Gwendolyn Brooks
Corregidora, Gayl Jones
Cane, Jean Toomer
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs (intro by Evie Shockley)
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, Ntzonge Shange
In the Mecca, Gwendolyn Brooks
Corregidora, Gayl Jones
near Whitakers, North Carolina
in 1871, ex-slaves bought back their plantation and built an African American college
in 1871, ex-slaves bought back their plantation and built an African American college
September 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
near Whitakers, North Carolina
in 1871, ex-slaves bought back their plantation and built an African American college
in 1871, ex-slaves bought back their plantation and built an African American college
if u believe in Free Speech 🌹
but are trying to get someone fired because they didn't say the "right" thing about Charlie Kirk
u dont believe in Free Speech 😉
but are trying to get someone fired because they didn't say the "right" thing about Charlie Kirk
u dont believe in Free Speech 😉
September 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
if u believe in Free Speech 🌹
but are trying to get someone fired because they didn't say the "right" thing about Charlie Kirk
u dont believe in Free Speech 😉
but are trying to get someone fired because they didn't say the "right" thing about Charlie Kirk
u dont believe in Free Speech 😉
why kirk's assassination, trump's attempted assassination, and trump's other attempted assassination were all committed by registered republicans
cloakinginequity.com/2025/09/13/t...
cloakinginequity.com/2025/09/13/t...
The Right of Right and the Violence America Refuses to Name
“Democrats own this, 100%.” That was the declaration from Representative Nancy Mace in the hours after Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a Utah campus. When pressed by reporters about Republican acc…
cloakinginequity.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
why kirk's assassination, trump's attempted assassination, and trump's other attempted assassination were all committed by registered republicans
cloakinginequity.com/2025/09/13/t...
cloakinginequity.com/2025/09/13/t...
NEW ZINE 🚨 we defended an elder from a year of extreme landlord harassment !
Crown Heights Tenant Union x Crown Heights Care Collective 👑
NEW page = our project timeline with clear steps + tasks 💕
Download: www.crownheightstenantunion.org/press/the-fi...
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0got...
Crown Heights Tenant Union x Crown Heights Care Collective 👑
NEW page = our project timeline with clear steps + tasks 💕
Download: www.crownheightstenantunion.org/press/the-fi...
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0got...
September 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
NEW ZINE 🚨 we defended an elder from a year of extreme landlord harassment !
Crown Heights Tenant Union x Crown Heights Care Collective 👑
NEW page = our project timeline with clear steps + tasks 💕
Download: www.crownheightstenantunion.org/press/the-fi...
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0got...
Crown Heights Tenant Union x Crown Heights Care Collective 👑
NEW page = our project timeline with clear steps + tasks 💕
Download: www.crownheightstenantunion.org/press/the-fi...
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0got...
Reposted by amadi ozier
new summer playlist: "it's nice to be nice" ! ☀️🌸
Cassie y2k dominates. 💿 made w love, neighborhood cookouts in mind
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/1z0...
Tidal:
tidal.com/playlist/8bb...
Cassie y2k dominates. 💿 made w love, neighborhood cookouts in mind
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/1z0...
Tidal:
tidal.com/playlist/8bb...
it’s nice to be nice
Playlist · hypervodka · 80 items · 11 saves
open.spotify.com
July 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
new summer playlist: "it's nice to be nice" ! ☀️🌸
Cassie y2k dominates. 💿 made w love, neighborhood cookouts in mind
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/1z0...
Tidal:
tidal.com/playlist/8bb...
Cassie y2k dominates. 💿 made w love, neighborhood cookouts in mind
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/1z0...
Tidal:
tidal.com/playlist/8bb...
1 thing I'd do differently 💛
I think when we started, I built the Crown Heights Care Collective’s internal infrastructure too much around social media (Instagram, Signal)
it can reward quick reactions, cross-talk 💕💕
dopamine organizing = burnout
I think when we started, I built the Crown Heights Care Collective’s internal infrastructure too much around social media (Instagram, Signal)
it can reward quick reactions, cross-talk 💕💕
dopamine organizing = burnout
September 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
1 thing I'd do differently 💛
I think when we started, I built the Crown Heights Care Collective’s internal infrastructure too much around social media (Instagram, Signal)
it can reward quick reactions, cross-talk 💕💕
dopamine organizing = burnout
I think when we started, I built the Crown Heights Care Collective’s internal infrastructure too much around social media (Instagram, Signal)
it can reward quick reactions, cross-talk 💕💕
dopamine organizing = burnout
happy labor day ! organizing works. may you find your organizing home without accidentally joining a DSA polycule 🙏
September 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
happy labor day ! organizing works. may you find your organizing home without accidentally joining a DSA polycule 🙏
❤️🌞✌🏽Hippie Christmas Fest !! live music + free resources on the biggest Moving Day in the city
Madison Tenant Power passed out cold water and fruit to movers & unhoused neighbors
Big thx to Art Lit Lab for sponsoring ✊🏽🌻
Madison Tenant Power passed out cold water and fruit to movers & unhoused neighbors
Big thx to Art Lit Lab for sponsoring ✊🏽🌻
August 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
❤️🌞✌🏽Hippie Christmas Fest !! live music + free resources on the biggest Moving Day in the city
Madison Tenant Power passed out cold water and fruit to movers & unhoused neighbors
Big thx to Art Lit Lab for sponsoring ✊🏽🌻
Madison Tenant Power passed out cold water and fruit to movers & unhoused neighbors
Big thx to Art Lit Lab for sponsoring ✊🏽🌻
“Bobalition” is a term from the 1830s that pro-slavery blackface comedians used to make fun of the idea that abolitionists actually wanted slavery to be abolished
(getting a tattoo of mr 3 pointed hat w the spurs)
(getting a tattoo of mr 3 pointed hat w the spurs)
August 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“Bobalition” is a term from the 1830s that pro-slavery blackface comedians used to make fun of the idea that abolitionists actually wanted slavery to be abolished
(getting a tattoo of mr 3 pointed hat w the spurs)
(getting a tattoo of mr 3 pointed hat w the spurs)
In Amaluna, the Balance Goddess performs a mesmerizing ritual of focus and fragility. Using thirteen palm leaf ribs, she constructs a towering mobile. Each element suspended in perfect tension.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=61Fy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=61Fy...
Thirteen Ribs & A Breathless Silence | Cirque du Soleil
YouTube video by Cirque du Soleil
www.youtube.com
August 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
In Amaluna, the Balance Goddess performs a mesmerizing ritual of focus and fragility. Using thirteen palm leaf ribs, she constructs a towering mobile. Each element suspended in perfect tension.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=61Fy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=61Fy...
🕸️ 🕸️ MIX RE-ISSUE. cleaned up our “crown heights care collective” playlist from summer 2022 (collab w founding members of the Crown Heights Care Collective, co-created)
my vision was joy, raw protest, experiment, energy
Tidal: tidal.com/playlist/b04...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/7vE...
my vision was joy, raw protest, experiment, energy
Tidal: tidal.com/playlist/b04...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/7vE...
TIDAL - High Fidelity Music Streaming
TIDAL is the first global music streaming service with high fidelity sound, hi-def video quality, along with expertly curated playlists and original content — making it a trusted source for music and ...
tidal.com
August 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
🕸️ 🕸️ MIX RE-ISSUE. cleaned up our “crown heights care collective” playlist from summer 2022 (collab w founding members of the Crown Heights Care Collective, co-created)
my vision was joy, raw protest, experiment, energy
Tidal: tidal.com/playlist/b04...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/7vE...
my vision was joy, raw protest, experiment, energy
Tidal: tidal.com/playlist/b04...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/7vE...
a hit! 80 neighbors chatted abt taking back their homes through CLTs
tenants:
🏚 used landlord neglect as organizing leverage
🧾 blocked foreclosure auctions
🏘 brought buildings into democratic ownership
Missed it? Read the notes here: www.crownheightstenantunion.org/press/how-te...
tenants:
🏚 used landlord neglect as organizing leverage
🧾 blocked foreclosure auctions
🏘 brought buildings into democratic ownership
Missed it? Read the notes here: www.crownheightstenantunion.org/press/how-te...
August 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
a hit! 80 neighbors chatted abt taking back their homes through CLTs
tenants:
🏚 used landlord neglect as organizing leverage
🧾 blocked foreclosure auctions
🏘 brought buildings into democratic ownership
Missed it? Read the notes here: www.crownheightstenantunion.org/press/how-te...
tenants:
🏚 used landlord neglect as organizing leverage
🧾 blocked foreclosure auctions
🏘 brought buildings into democratic ownership
Missed it? Read the notes here: www.crownheightstenantunion.org/press/how-te...
danielle brooks told her abortion story w tact. still getting attacked 🥱
🌷 so tell your abortion story however u want
people.com/danielle-bro...
30% of folks have an abortion by age 30. 70% of pregnancies terminate
abortion stigma is just fear of death and of women's bodies
🌷 so tell your abortion story however u want
people.com/danielle-bro...
30% of folks have an abortion by age 30. 70% of pregnancies terminate
abortion stigma is just fear of death and of women's bodies
Danielle Brooks Opens Up About 'Difficult' Abortion for the First Time, Says Experience Made Her Realize She Wanted to Be a Mom
Danielle Brooks shares how going through a "difficult" abortion made her realize that she wanted to be a mom. The actress is now mom to daughter Freeya, whom she welcomed in 2019.
people.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
danielle brooks told her abortion story w tact. still getting attacked 🥱
🌷 so tell your abortion story however u want
people.com/danielle-bro...
30% of folks have an abortion by age 30. 70% of pregnancies terminate
abortion stigma is just fear of death and of women's bodies
🌷 so tell your abortion story however u want
people.com/danielle-bro...
30% of folks have an abortion by age 30. 70% of pregnancies terminate
abortion stigma is just fear of death and of women's bodies
“All of these diff community hubs are trying to strategize around this emerging crisis, and it’s important for us all to be talking to each other,” said Amadi Ozier of NYC Block Watch, which runs Know Your Rights and rapid response trainings across NYC. 🔗
documentedny.com/2025/07/21/i...
documentedny.com/2025/07/21/i...
From DMs to the Streets: New Yorkers Rally to Protect Immigrants - Documented
NYC ICE Watch and other rapid response groups are fighting ICE arrests and promoting mutual aid in immigrant communities.
documentedny.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
“All of these diff community hubs are trying to strategize around this emerging crisis, and it’s important for us all to be talking to each other,” said Amadi Ozier of NYC Block Watch, which runs Know Your Rights and rapid response trainings across NYC. 🔗
documentedny.com/2025/07/21/i...
documentedny.com/2025/07/21/i...
new summer playlist: "it's nice to be nice" ! ☀️🌸
Cassie y2k dominates. 💿 made w love, neighborhood cookouts in mind
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/1z0...
Tidal:
tidal.com/playlist/8bb...
Cassie y2k dominates. 💿 made w love, neighborhood cookouts in mind
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/1z0...
Tidal:
tidal.com/playlist/8bb...
it’s nice to be nice
Playlist · hypervodka · 80 items · 11 saves
open.spotify.com
July 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
new summer playlist: "it's nice to be nice" ! ☀️🌸
Cassie y2k dominates. 💿 made w love, neighborhood cookouts in mind
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/1z0...
Tidal:
tidal.com/playlist/8bb...
Cassie y2k dominates. 💿 made w love, neighborhood cookouts in mind
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/1z0...
Tidal:
tidal.com/playlist/8bb...
someone made a mini version of my rapid response zine (on fun paper) for a recent community party
she said: "hundreds of people have your zine now!" 🥹
Download: bit.ly/RapidRespons...
she said: "hundreds of people have your zine now!" 🥹
Download: bit.ly/RapidRespons...
July 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
someone made a mini version of my rapid response zine (on fun paper) for a recent community party
she said: "hundreds of people have your zine now!" 🥹
Download: bit.ly/RapidRespons...
she said: "hundreds of people have your zine now!" 🥹
Download: bit.ly/RapidRespons...
from my fish fry last weekend. you ever fried 60 pieces of fish for the movement ??
June 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
from my fish fry last weekend. you ever fried 60 pieces of fish for the movement ??