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Respair Media
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We’re a movement journalism and media hub reshaping culture toward the more liberatory. Based in Chicago.

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In Los Angeles we learned that failure is PIVOTAL to how we grow safety without police and prisons.

Our show In the Field travels all across this land to explore experiments in prison and police abolition.

Watch episode 3, Failure & Growth in LA here: youtu.be/0uDzr1_II5Q
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
We linked up with The Friendly Fridge, a food mutual aid project in the BX, and the Black Trans Travel Fund, to see their work in action. We also chop it up w/ brilliant poet and writer Fatimah Asghar, and swing by legendary Lloyd's Carrot Cake for a bite! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gB2...
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"It's hard to know who to follow / when everyone 'round you's a leader"

On Ep 2 of #onemillionexperimentsinthefield, we head to Kiss’s childhood stomping grounds in the Bronx to explore how, when organizing for freedom, small sometimes equals strong.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gB2...
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Make sure you subscribe to catch all of One Million Experiments: In the Field, a travel show about how people create safety without policing and prisons!

www.youtube.com/@respairmedia
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"Sometimes we win when we lose / This isn't a war or a game / connecting the past and building the future to us is one and the same."

On Ep 1 of One Million Experiments: In the Field, we head to Minneapolis to explore what's grown from the ashes of righteous anger.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuKv...
November 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Danez Smith on the cycle of breaking and building at the center of the 2020 uprising in Minneapolis.

What was born from the ashes of the 2020 uprising? Watch the episode here: youtu.be/-rvfBbG8ix4?...
November 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
We've been a little quiet over here, but are excited to share our brand-new abolitionist travel show One Million Experiments: In the Field!
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Why haven’t some people spoken out about Gaza?

We had an incredibly moving talk w Rami about his journey to self-love as a Palestinian, his faith in Islam, the dilemma of Arab store owners in Black communities, and the power of Black-Palestinian solidarity.

Watch our convo: youtu.be/vgSduwRt2gw
October 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Palestinian-American activist Rami Nashashibi schooled us on the Islamic call to prayer. Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/vgSduwRt2gw
September 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The lasting impact of the 2020 uprisings. Find out more about the projects working towards a world without police: youtu.be/KxnhsOTYxPQ?...
September 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM