StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP)
@storiesforpower.bsky.social
Stories from everyday people confronting violence without the police. StoriesForPower Podcast 🎧 & STOP Story Archive 🎙️
🐚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.
🐚 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.
🐚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.
🐚 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)…
🐚 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.
🐚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.
🐚 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.
🐚EP 005-SF Bay Area
🎙️Welcome back our co-producer and this episode’s guest, Mimi Kim:
Mimi is a second generation Korean American, a daughter of immigrants from a country still divided.
🎙️Welcome back our co-producer and this episode’s guest, Mimi Kim:
Mimi is a second generation Korean American, a daughter of immigrants from a country still divided.
May 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
🐚EP 005-SF Bay Area
🎙️Welcome back our co-producer and this episode’s guest, Mimi Kim:
Mimi is a second generation Korean American, a daughter of immigrants from a country still divided.
🎙️Welcome back our co-producer and this episode’s guest, Mimi Kim:
Mimi is a second generation Korean American, a daughter of immigrants from a country still divided.
🐚EP 005-SF Bay Area
🎙️Meet our guest Rachel Herzing:
Rachel Herzing is an organizer, activist, and educator. Herzing’s work has spanned grassroots movements against imprisonment and policing, community and movement education, and philanthropy.
🎙️Meet our guest Rachel Herzing:
Rachel Herzing is an organizer, activist, and educator. Herzing’s work has spanned grassroots movements against imprisonment and policing, community and movement education, and philanthropy.
May 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
🐚EP 005-SF Bay Area
🎙️Meet our guest Rachel Herzing:
Rachel Herzing is an organizer, activist, and educator. Herzing’s work has spanned grassroots movements against imprisonment and policing, community and movement education, and philanthropy.
🎙️Meet our guest Rachel Herzing:
Rachel Herzing is an organizer, activist, and educator. Herzing’s work has spanned grassroots movements against imprisonment and policing, community and movement education, and philanthropy.
🐚EP 005-SF Bay Area
🎙️Meet our guest Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha:
@llps.bsky.social (they/them) is a nonbinary femme disabled writer, space creator and disability and transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician/Roma ascent.
🎙️Meet our guest Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha:
@llps.bsky.social (they/them) is a nonbinary femme disabled writer, space creator and disability and transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician/Roma ascent.
May 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
🐚EP 005-SF Bay Area
🎙️Meet our guest Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha:
@llps.bsky.social (they/them) is a nonbinary femme disabled writer, space creator and disability and transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician/Roma ascent.
🎙️Meet our guest Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha:
@llps.bsky.social (they/them) is a nonbinary femme disabled writer, space creator and disability and transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician/Roma ascent.
🐚Ep 004: NYC
🎙️Meet our guest Paula X. Rojas:
Chilean-born community organizer, licensed midwife and social justice trainer Paula X. Rojas grew up in Houston, followed in the footsteps of family members in Chile and began working on social justice issues affecting her local community as a teen.
🎙️Meet our guest Paula X. Rojas:
Chilean-born community organizer, licensed midwife and social justice trainer Paula X. Rojas grew up in Houston, followed in the footsteps of family members in Chile and began working on social justice issues affecting her local community as a teen.
May 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
🐚Ep 004: NYC
🎙️Meet our guest Paula X. Rojas:
Chilean-born community organizer, licensed midwife and social justice trainer Paula X. Rojas grew up in Houston, followed in the footsteps of family members in Chile and began working on social justice issues affecting her local community as a teen.
🎙️Meet our guest Paula X. Rojas:
Chilean-born community organizer, licensed midwife and social justice trainer Paula X. Rojas grew up in Houston, followed in the footsteps of family members in Chile and began working on social justice issues affecting her local community as a teen.
🐚Stories for Power Episode 004
🎙️Meet our guest kai barrow:
kai barrow (she, her) is a visual artist who lives and works in New Orleans. Interested in the praxis of radical imagination, her sprawling paintings, installations and sculptures experiment with abolition as an artistic vernacular.
🎙️Meet our guest kai barrow:
kai barrow (she, her) is a visual artist who lives and works in New Orleans. Interested in the praxis of radical imagination, her sprawling paintings, installations and sculptures experiment with abolition as an artistic vernacular.
May 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
🐚Stories for Power Episode 004
🎙️Meet our guest kai barrow:
kai barrow (she, her) is a visual artist who lives and works in New Orleans. Interested in the praxis of radical imagination, her sprawling paintings, installations and sculptures experiment with abolition as an artistic vernacular.
🎙️Meet our guest kai barrow:
kai barrow (she, her) is a visual artist who lives and works in New Orleans. Interested in the praxis of radical imagination, her sprawling paintings, installations and sculptures experiment with abolition as an artistic vernacular.
🐚Stories for Power Episode 004
🎙️Meet our guest Ejeris Dixon:
Ejeris Dixon (they/she) is an organizer and political strategist with 20 years of experience working in racial justice, LGBTQ, anti-violence, and economic justice movements. They are the Principal of Ejerie Labs.
🎙️Meet our guest Ejeris Dixon:
Ejeris Dixon (they/she) is an organizer and political strategist with 20 years of experience working in racial justice, LGBTQ, anti-violence, and economic justice movements. They are the Principal of Ejerie Labs.
May 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
🐚Stories for Power Episode 004
🎙️Meet our guest Ejeris Dixon:
Ejeris Dixon (they/she) is an organizer and political strategist with 20 years of experience working in racial justice, LGBTQ, anti-violence, and economic justice movements. They are the Principal of Ejerie Labs.
🎙️Meet our guest Ejeris Dixon:
Ejeris Dixon (they/she) is an organizer and political strategist with 20 years of experience working in racial justice, LGBTQ, anti-violence, and economic justice movements. They are the Principal of Ejerie Labs.
🐚 Stories for Power Ep 003
🎙️Meet our guest Nia Wilson:
Nia is the daughter of Ronald and Elmira and the mother of Heather and Paul. Raised on Connecticut concrete and sand, Black soul and Campbell's pork and beans, Nia is a gifted healer, story weaver and cultural alchemist.
🎙️Meet our guest Nia Wilson:
Nia is the daughter of Ronald and Elmira and the mother of Heather and Paul. Raised on Connecticut concrete and sand, Black soul and Campbell's pork and beans, Nia is a gifted healer, story weaver and cultural alchemist.
May 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
🐚 Stories for Power Ep 003
🎙️Meet our guest Nia Wilson:
Nia is the daughter of Ronald and Elmira and the mother of Heather and Paul. Raised on Connecticut concrete and sand, Black soul and Campbell's pork and beans, Nia is a gifted healer, story weaver and cultural alchemist.
🎙️Meet our guest Nia Wilson:
Nia is the daughter of Ronald and Elmira and the mother of Heather and Paul. Raised on Connecticut concrete and sand, Black soul and Campbell's pork and beans, Nia is a gifted healer, story weaver and cultural alchemist.
🐚Stories for Power Episode 003
🎙️Meet our guest Alexis Pauline Gumbs:
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of several books, including Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Dub: Finding Ceremony…
🎙️Meet our guest Alexis Pauline Gumbs:
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of several books, including Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Dub: Finding Ceremony…
May 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
🐚Stories for Power Episode 003
🎙️Meet our guest Alexis Pauline Gumbs:
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of several books, including Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Dub: Finding Ceremony…
🎙️Meet our guest Alexis Pauline Gumbs:
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of several books, including Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Dub: Finding Ceremony…
🐚Stories for Power Ep 003
🎙️Meet our guest Mya Hunter:
Born under the Aquarius sun sign, Mya is a fourth generation Durhamite, a daughter, sister, friend, performance artist, and documentarian. She has a deep sense of love and duty to her Hometown.
🎙️Meet our guest Mya Hunter:
Born under the Aquarius sun sign, Mya is a fourth generation Durhamite, a daughter, sister, friend, performance artist, and documentarian. She has a deep sense of love and duty to her Hometown.
May 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
🐚Stories for Power Ep 003
🎙️Meet our guest Mya Hunter:
Born under the Aquarius sun sign, Mya is a fourth generation Durhamite, a daughter, sister, friend, performance artist, and documentarian. She has a deep sense of love and duty to her Hometown.
🎙️Meet our guest Mya Hunter:
Born under the Aquarius sun sign, Mya is a fourth generation Durhamite, a daughter, sister, friend, performance artist, and documentarian. She has a deep sense of love and duty to her Hometown.
🐚 Episode 002
🎙️Meet our guest Morgan Bassichis: Morgan Bassichis is a performer, writer, and artist living in New York City. They are the co-editor of Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah, an accessible anti-Zionist anthology for people of all ages, published by Wendy's Subway in August 2023.
🎙️Meet our guest Morgan Bassichis: Morgan Bassichis is a performer, writer, and artist living in New York City. They are the co-editor of Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah, an accessible anti-Zionist anthology for people of all ages, published by Wendy's Subway in August 2023.
April 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
🐚 Episode 002
🎙️Meet our guest Morgan Bassichis: Morgan Bassichis is a performer, writer, and artist living in New York City. They are the co-editor of Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah, an accessible anti-Zionist anthology for people of all ages, published by Wendy's Subway in August 2023.
🎙️Meet our guest Morgan Bassichis: Morgan Bassichis is a performer, writer, and artist living in New York City. They are the co-editor of Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah, an accessible anti-Zionist anthology for people of all ages, published by Wendy's Subway in August 2023.
🐚 Episode 002: Trans & Queer Organizing
🎙️Meet our guest micah hobbes frazier: micah is an innovative and highly skilled facilitator with over 20 years of direct service and organizing experience.
🎙️Meet our guest micah hobbes frazier: micah is an innovative and highly skilled facilitator with over 20 years of direct service and organizing experience.
April 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
🐚 Episode 002: Trans & Queer Organizing
🎙️Meet our guest micah hobbes frazier: micah is an innovative and highly skilled facilitator with over 20 years of direct service and organizing experience.
🎙️Meet our guest micah hobbes frazier: micah is an innovative and highly skilled facilitator with over 20 years of direct service and organizing experience.
🐚Stories for Power Episode 001
🎙️Meet our producer Rachel Caïdor:
Rachel Caïdor is an abolitionist feminist who has spent over 25 years supporting survivors of sexual, domestic, and state violence. She lives and works in Chicago.
🎙️Meet our producer Rachel Caïdor:
Rachel Caïdor is an abolitionist feminist who has spent over 25 years supporting survivors of sexual, domestic, and state violence. She lives and works in Chicago.
April 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🐚Stories for Power Episode 001
🎙️Meet our producer Rachel Caïdor:
Rachel Caïdor is an abolitionist feminist who has spent over 25 years supporting survivors of sexual, domestic, and state violence. She lives and works in Chicago.
🎙️Meet our producer Rachel Caïdor:
Rachel Caïdor is an abolitionist feminist who has spent over 25 years supporting survivors of sexual, domestic, and state violence. She lives and works in Chicago.
🎙️Meet our producer Shira Hassan:
Shira has trained & spoken nationally on the sex trade, harm reduction, self-injury, healing justice & TJ. She is a @interruptcrim.bsky.social fellow where she runs The Help Desk to support ppl working to interrupt crises and violence without using the police.
Shira has trained & spoken nationally on the sex trade, harm reduction, self-injury, healing justice & TJ. She is a @interruptcrim.bsky.social fellow where she runs The Help Desk to support ppl working to interrupt crises and violence without using the police.
April 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
🎙️Meet our producer Shira Hassan:
Shira has trained & spoken nationally on the sex trade, harm reduction, self-injury, healing justice & TJ. She is a @interruptcrim.bsky.social fellow where she runs The Help Desk to support ppl working to interrupt crises and violence without using the police.
Shira has trained & spoken nationally on the sex trade, harm reduction, self-injury, healing justice & TJ. She is a @interruptcrim.bsky.social fellow where she runs The Help Desk to support ppl working to interrupt crises and violence without using the police.
🐚Stories for Power Episode 001
🎙️Meet our producer Mimi Kim:
Mimi is a co-founder of Incite! and a founder of Creative Interventions, one of the partner organizations of this relaunch of the StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP) / Stories For Power.
🎙️Meet our producer Mimi Kim:
Mimi is a co-founder of Incite! and a founder of Creative Interventions, one of the partner organizations of this relaunch of the StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP) / Stories For Power.
April 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🐚Stories for Power Episode 001
🎙️Meet our producer Mimi Kim:
Mimi is a co-founder of Incite! and a founder of Creative Interventions, one of the partner organizations of this relaunch of the StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP) / Stories For Power.
🎙️Meet our producer Mimi Kim:
Mimi is a co-founder of Incite! and a founder of Creative Interventions, one of the partner organizations of this relaunch of the StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP) / Stories For Power.