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Stories from everyday people confronting violence without the police. StoriesForPower Podcast 🎧 & STOP Story Archive 🎙️
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Why am I squeezing in a conference before I go on medical leave? Because it's my favorite conference of the year. These are the people I want to be with when so many things are going wrong. For those of you who aren't at @socialismconference.org, here are some remarks I shared today.
Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025
"This is the endgame of our isolation."
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July 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Why am I squeezing in a conference before I go on medical leave? Because it's my favorite conference of the year. These are the people I want to be with when so many things are going wrong. For those of you who aren't at @socialismconference.org, here are some remarks I shared today.
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Oh dear, I forgot to keep the link in there after the excerpt was too long. Of course it’s from this most recent @storiesforpower.bsky.social episode: www.creative-interventions.org/sfp/abolitio...
Abolition Feminisms
Deana Lewis chats with Beth Richie and Alisa Bierria about the historical context and motivations behind their influential books that have been informed by and inform abolition feminism.
www.creative-interventions.org
June 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oh dear, I forgot to keep the link in there after the excerpt was too long. Of course it’s from this most recent @storiesforpower.bsky.social episode: www.creative-interventions.org/sfp/abolitio...
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This part of the lineage of abolition where I’ve found my own homes — deeply informed by abolition feminism, I would say — has always been one of the treasures for me. Something to hold onto that’s moving toward freedom.
![“And it also allows for the really slow world building work that it promises it will deliver. And so I think the both and part of abolition feminism really comes from the way that it’s alive and it’s living and it’s experimental and it changes over time, but it gives us something to kind of wrap ourselves in or hold onto as something that’s moving in a direction toward freedom. I think if you [00:27:00] try to do abolition without feminism, or if you are a feminist and don’t understand what abolition is required of you, then I think you miss that long arc that you described.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6zbuc76mmqgzyq76jn5glcz2/bafkreicbcnkcyakabtnwfi4lleyrv77f4mzwcaeukpywsidj2qto2wudbi@jpeg)
June 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This part of the lineage of abolition where I’ve found my own homes — deeply informed by abolition feminism, I would say — has always been one of the treasures for me. Something to hold onto that’s moving toward freedom.
🐚Ep011: Abolition Feminisms
🎙️Meet our guest Beth Richie:
Beth E. Richie is a Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice and Black Studies at The University of Illinois at Chicago.
🎙️Meet our guest Beth Richie:
Beth E. Richie is a Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice and Black Studies at The University of Illinois at Chicago.
June 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🐚Ep011: Abolition Feminisms
🎙️Meet our guest Beth Richie:
Beth E. Richie is a Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice and Black Studies at The University of Illinois at Chicago.
🎙️Meet our guest Beth Richie:
Beth E. Richie is a Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice and Black Studies at The University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Still catching up a bit. What a wonderful episode. I didn’t know I’d learn so much Minneapolis history! And it is always a treasure to hear Andrea Ritchie stories. ❤️
🐚 Ep 010: Radical Roots
🎙️Meet our guest Kalei Kanuha:
Valli Kalei Kanuha, born and raised in Hilo, Hawaiʻi in the 1950s is the daughter of a Kanaka ʻŌiwi father and Nisei mother. Dr. Kanuha considers herself an Indigenous, critical feminist, activist-practitioner-scholar.
🎙️Meet our guest Kalei Kanuha:
Valli Kalei Kanuha, born and raised in Hilo, Hawaiʻi in the 1950s is the daughter of a Kanaka ʻŌiwi father and Nisei mother. Dr. Kanuha considers herself an Indigenous, critical feminist, activist-practitioner-scholar.
June 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Still catching up a bit. What a wonderful episode. I didn’t know I’d learn so much Minneapolis history! And it is always a treasure to hear Andrea Ritchie stories. ❤️
🐚 Stories for Power Episode 011
🎙️Meet our guest Alisa Bierria:
Alisa has been an advocate and organizer within the feminist anti-violence movement for over 25 years.
🎙️Meet our guest Alisa Bierria:
Alisa has been an advocate and organizer within the feminist anti-violence movement for over 25 years.
June 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
🐚 Stories for Power Episode 011
🎙️Meet our guest Alisa Bierria:
Alisa has been an advocate and organizer within the feminist anti-violence movement for over 25 years.
🎙️Meet our guest Alisa Bierria:
Alisa has been an advocate and organizer within the feminist anti-violence movement for over 25 years.
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And that number is likely higher. ICE and CBP lack the records and have such flawed systems/procedures (or, one could argue that it isn’t flawed but actually operating as intended) that they don’t even know where to track or find people they’ve abducted, let alone how many they’ve deported in error.
June 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
And that number is likely higher. ICE and CBP lack the records and have such flawed systems/procedures (or, one could argue that it isn’t flawed but actually operating as intended) that they don’t even know where to track or find people they’ve abducted, let alone how many they’ve deported in error.
📢 Ep 011: Abolition Feminisms
In our final episode, Beth Richie & Alisa Bierria reflect on their shared grounding in faith as necessary to remain steady along the ever-changing pathway to liberation. They remind us the importance of intentional community building, friendships, family, & joy.
In our final episode, Beth Richie & Alisa Bierria reflect on their shared grounding in faith as necessary to remain steady along the ever-changing pathway to liberation. They remind us the importance of intentional community building, friendships, family, & joy.
Abolition Feminisms
Deana Lewis chats with Beth Richie and Alisa Bierria about the historical context and motivations behind their influential books that have been informed by and inform abolition feminism.
www.creative-interventions.org
June 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
📢 Ep 011: Abolition Feminisms
In our final episode, Beth Richie & Alisa Bierria reflect on their shared grounding in faith as necessary to remain steady along the ever-changing pathway to liberation. They remind us the importance of intentional community building, friendships, family, & joy.
In our final episode, Beth Richie & Alisa Bierria reflect on their shared grounding in faith as necessary to remain steady along the ever-changing pathway to liberation. They remind us the importance of intentional community building, friendships, family, & joy.
🐚EP 010
🎙️This episode we welcome back our producer and this episode’s guest, Mimi Kim:
Mimi is a second generation Korean American, a daughter of immigrants from a country still divided. S
🎙️This episode we welcome back our producer and this episode’s guest, Mimi Kim:
Mimi is a second generation Korean American, a daughter of immigrants from a country still divided. S
June 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🐚EP 010
🎙️This episode we welcome back our producer and this episode’s guest, Mimi Kim:
Mimi is a second generation Korean American, a daughter of immigrants from a country still divided. S
🎙️This episode we welcome back our producer and this episode’s guest, Mimi Kim:
Mimi is a second generation Korean American, a daughter of immigrants from a country still divided. S
🐚 Ep 010: Radical Roots
🎙️Meet our guest Kalei Kanuha:
Valli Kalei Kanuha, born and raised in Hilo, Hawaiʻi in the 1950s is the daughter of a Kanaka ʻŌiwi father and Nisei mother. Dr. Kanuha considers herself an Indigenous, critical feminist, activist-practitioner-scholar.
🎙️Meet our guest Kalei Kanuha:
Valli Kalei Kanuha, born and raised in Hilo, Hawaiʻi in the 1950s is the daughter of a Kanaka ʻŌiwi father and Nisei mother. Dr. Kanuha considers herself an Indigenous, critical feminist, activist-practitioner-scholar.
June 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
🐚 Ep 010: Radical Roots
🎙️Meet our guest Kalei Kanuha:
Valli Kalei Kanuha, born and raised in Hilo, Hawaiʻi in the 1950s is the daughter of a Kanaka ʻŌiwi father and Nisei mother. Dr. Kanuha considers herself an Indigenous, critical feminist, activist-practitioner-scholar.
🎙️Meet our guest Kalei Kanuha:
Valli Kalei Kanuha, born and raised in Hilo, Hawaiʻi in the 1950s is the daughter of a Kanaka ʻŌiwi father and Nisei mother. Dr. Kanuha considers herself an Indigenous, critical feminist, activist-practitioner-scholar.
Meet our EP010 guest
@dreanyc123.bsky.social:
Andrea (she/her) is a Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating &agitating around policing & criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, & gender nonconforming people for the past three decades.
@dreanyc123.bsky.social:
Andrea (she/her) is a Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating &agitating around policing & criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, & gender nonconforming people for the past three decades.
June 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Meet our EP010 guest
@dreanyc123.bsky.social:
Andrea (she/her) is a Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating &agitating around policing & criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, & gender nonconforming people for the past three decades.
@dreanyc123.bsky.social:
Andrea (she/her) is a Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating &agitating around policing & criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, & gender nonconforming people for the past three decades.
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Tune in to this episode to hear from our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, alongside Valli Kalei Kanuha and Mimi Kim, as they weave a long view of the abolitionist feminist movement, one that crosses generations and geographic expanses, and multiple, intersecting movements.
📢Let’s talk Radical Roots, Tune into Ep 010
What a privilege it is that we get to hear from some of the OG’s of this work! This week, host Deana Lewis talks with Valli Kalei Kanuha, Mimi Kim, and Andrea Ritchie, whose entry into the feminist of color movement spans the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s.
What a privilege it is that we get to hear from some of the OG’s of this work! This week, host Deana Lewis talks with Valli Kalei Kanuha, Mimi Kim, and Andrea Ritchie, whose entry into the feminist of color movement spans the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s.
Radical Roots
Deana Lewis talks with Valli Kalei Kanuha, Mimi Kim and Andrea Ritchie, whose entry into the feminist of color movement spans the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s. Together, they weave a long view of the…
www.creative-interventions.org
June 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Tune in to this episode to hear from our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, alongside Valli Kalei Kanuha and Mimi Kim, as they weave a long view of the abolitionist feminist movement, one that crosses generations and geographic expanses, and multiple, intersecting movements.
📢Let’s talk Radical Roots, Tune into Ep 010
What a privilege it is that we get to hear from some of the OG’s of this work! This week, host Deana Lewis talks with Valli Kalei Kanuha, Mimi Kim, and Andrea Ritchie, whose entry into the feminist of color movement spans the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s.
What a privilege it is that we get to hear from some of the OG’s of this work! This week, host Deana Lewis talks with Valli Kalei Kanuha, Mimi Kim, and Andrea Ritchie, whose entry into the feminist of color movement spans the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s.
Radical Roots
Deana Lewis talks with Valli Kalei Kanuha, Mimi Kim and Andrea Ritchie, whose entry into the feminist of color movement spans the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s. Together, they weave a long view of the…
www.creative-interventions.org
June 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
📢Let’s talk Radical Roots, Tune into Ep 010
What a privilege it is that we get to hear from some of the OG’s of this work! This week, host Deana Lewis talks with Valli Kalei Kanuha, Mimi Kim, and Andrea Ritchie, whose entry into the feminist of color movement spans the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s.
What a privilege it is that we get to hear from some of the OG’s of this work! This week, host Deana Lewis talks with Valli Kalei Kanuha, Mimi Kim, and Andrea Ritchie, whose entry into the feminist of color movement spans the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s.
🐚 EP 009: Chicago
🎙️Welcome back our producer and this episode’s guest, Shira Hassan:
Shira Hassan has trained and spoken nationally on the sex trade, harm reduction, self-injury, healing justice and transformative justice.
🎙️Welcome back our producer and this episode’s guest, Shira Hassan:
Shira Hassan has trained and spoken nationally on the sex trade, harm reduction, self-injury, healing justice and transformative justice.
June 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🐚 EP 009: Chicago
🎙️Welcome back our producer and this episode’s guest, Shira Hassan:
Shira Hassan has trained and spoken nationally on the sex trade, harm reduction, self-injury, healing justice and transformative justice.
🎙️Welcome back our producer and this episode’s guest, Shira Hassan:
Shira Hassan has trained and spoken nationally on the sex trade, harm reduction, self-injury, healing justice and transformative justice.
🐚 EP 009
🎙️Meet our guest Erica Meiners:
Writer, educator, & organizer, Erica R. Meiners’ current work includes a co-edited anthology The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Towards Freedom (2018)…
🎙️Meet our guest Erica Meiners:
Writer, educator, & organizer, Erica R. Meiners’ current work includes a co-edited anthology The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Towards Freedom (2018)…
June 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🐚 EP 009
🎙️Meet our guest Erica Meiners:
Writer, educator, & organizer, Erica R. Meiners’ current work includes a co-edited anthology The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Towards Freedom (2018)…
🎙️Meet our guest Erica Meiners:
Writer, educator, & organizer, Erica R. Meiners’ current work includes a co-edited anthology The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Towards Freedom (2018)…
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In Episode 1 of my new podcast, Love in a F*cked Up World, I talk to adrienne maree brown about jealousy, possessiveness, conflict in organizing groups, anarchism, and more. Find it on Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/4dPp...
Introducing: Love in a F*cked Up World with Dean Spade
Love in a F*cked Up World · Episode
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June 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
In Episode 1 of my new podcast, Love in a F*cked Up World, I talk to adrienne maree brown about jealousy, possessiveness, conflict in organizing groups, anarchism, and more. Find it on Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/4dPp...
🐚 EP009: Chicago
🎙️Meet our guest Mariame Kaba:
@prisonculture.bsky.social is an organizer, educator, librarian/archivist, curator, zinemaker & prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice.
🎙️Meet our guest Mariame Kaba:
@prisonculture.bsky.social is an organizer, educator, librarian/archivist, curator, zinemaker & prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice.
June 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🐚 EP009: Chicago
🎙️Meet our guest Mariame Kaba:
@prisonculture.bsky.social is an organizer, educator, librarian/archivist, curator, zinemaker & prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice.
🎙️Meet our guest Mariame Kaba:
@prisonculture.bsky.social is an organizer, educator, librarian/archivist, curator, zinemaker & prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice.
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Very excited for this newest @storiesforpower.bsky.social episode about the formative work done in Chicago from the early 2000s through the 2010s. www.creative-interventions.org/sfp/chicago/
Chicago Transformative Justice
Deana Lewis talks with Mariame Kaba, Erica Meiners, and Shira Hassan – three abolitionist feminists who discuss the work they created and built in Chicago from the early 2000’s through the early 2010’...
www.creative-interventions.org
June 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Very excited for this newest @storiesforpower.bsky.social episode about the formative work done in Chicago from the early 2000s through the 2010s. www.creative-interventions.org/sfp/chicago/
📢Ep 009: Chicago is Here!
In this episode, @prisonculture.bsky.social, Erica Meiners, & Shira Hassan, reflect on their organizing journeys in Chicago. They discuss how their relationships, solidarity, and partnership fed their ability to experiment, find joy in the grief, and build safer realities.
In this episode, @prisonculture.bsky.social, Erica Meiners, & Shira Hassan, reflect on their organizing journeys in Chicago. They discuss how their relationships, solidarity, and partnership fed their ability to experiment, find joy in the grief, and build safer realities.
Chicago Transformative Justice
Deana Lewis talks with Mariame Kaba, Erica Meiners, and Shira Hassan – three abolitionist feminists who discuss the work they created and built in Chicago from the early 2000’s through the early 2010’...
www.creative-interventions.org
June 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
📢Ep 009: Chicago is Here!
In this episode, @prisonculture.bsky.social, Erica Meiners, & Shira Hassan, reflect on their organizing journeys in Chicago. They discuss how their relationships, solidarity, and partnership fed their ability to experiment, find joy in the grief, and build safer realities.
In this episode, @prisonculture.bsky.social, Erica Meiners, & Shira Hassan, reflect on their organizing journeys in Chicago. They discuss how their relationships, solidarity, and partnership fed their ability to experiment, find joy in the grief, and build safer realities.
🐚 EP 007: Philly!
This episode takes us back to the East Coast to talk with Esteban Kelly and Jenna Peters-Golden about how the close knit queer and trans community impacted the larger activist world and supported the long term work to end sexual violence throughout the Philly and beyond.
This episode takes us back to the East Coast to talk with Esteban Kelly and Jenna Peters-Golden about how the close knit queer and trans community impacted the larger activist world and supported the long term work to end sexual violence throughout the Philly and beyond.
Philly Transformative Justice
Join our host Deana Lewis as she interviews Esteban Kelly and Jenna Peters-Golden who were core collective members of Philly Stands Up that worked to restore trust and justice within the Philadelphia…
www.creative-interventions.org
May 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
🐚 EP 007: Philly!
This episode takes us back to the East Coast to talk with Esteban Kelly and Jenna Peters-Golden about how the close knit queer and trans community impacted the larger activist world and supported the long term work to end sexual violence throughout the Philly and beyond.
This episode takes us back to the East Coast to talk with Esteban Kelly and Jenna Peters-Golden about how the close knit queer and trans community impacted the larger activist world and supported the long term work to end sexual violence throughout the Philly and beyond.
🐚EP 006-ATL
🎙️Meet our guest Mia Mingus:
Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. Mia founded and currently leads SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project which builds the conditions for transformative justice to grow and thrive.
🎙️Meet our guest Mia Mingus:
Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. Mia founded and currently leads SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project which builds the conditions for transformative justice to grow and thrive.
May 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
🐚EP 006-ATL
🎙️Meet our guest Mia Mingus:
Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. Mia founded and currently leads SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project which builds the conditions for transformative justice to grow and thrive.
🎙️Meet our guest Mia Mingus:
Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. Mia founded and currently leads SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project which builds the conditions for transformative justice to grow and thrive.
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Join us this coming Wednesday, May 28 at 11 AM ET for our next webinar on Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism. We’ll be learning from organizers in India who are challenging criminalization and advancing TJ practices under their current conditions and contexts.
Learn more and register:
Learn more and register:
Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism: Part 2 — Interrupting Criminalization
Join Interrupting Criminalization for the second installment of our Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism series. This time, we’ll be learning from organizers and artists in India who are chal...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Join us this coming Wednesday, May 28 at 11 AM ET for our next webinar on Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism. We’ll be learning from organizers in India who are challenging criminalization and advancing TJ practices under their current conditions and contexts.
Learn more and register:
Learn more and register:
🐚 Ep 006 - ATL
🎙️Meet our guest Cara Page:
Cara is a Black Queer Feminist writer, cultural/memory worker, and organizer.
🎙️Meet our guest Cara Page:
Cara is a Black Queer Feminist writer, cultural/memory worker, and organizer.
May 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
🐚 Ep 006 - ATL
🎙️Meet our guest Cara Page:
Cara is a Black Queer Feminist writer, cultural/memory worker, and organizer.
🎙️Meet our guest Cara Page:
Cara is a Black Queer Feminist writer, cultural/memory worker, and organizer.
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🐚Ep 006: Atlanta 🌟 In this episode, our host Deana Lewis takes us to The South to chat with Cara Page and Mia Mingus. Together they discuss the work they did in Atlanta during the early to mid 2000’s and the building of the Atlanta Transformative Justice Collaborative.
Atlanta
Deana Lewis chats with Cara Page and Mia Mingus about their work in Atlanta during the early to mid 2000’s. They discuss the building of the Atlanta Transformative Justice Collaborative whose critical...
www.creative-interventions.org
May 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
🐚Ep 006: Atlanta 🌟 In this episode, our host Deana Lewis takes us to The South to chat with Cara Page and Mia Mingus. Together they discuss the work they did in Atlanta during the early to mid 2000’s and the building of the Atlanta Transformative Justice Collaborative.