my articles and essays:
2023:
'What is the Abolitionist Response to Paedophiles? Part Two'
Paedophiles are not a ‘minority’, they are accessing and using the power and violence that comes from the dominant societal structure in the world. So why is it so difficult to understand that this is one of the forms of oppression that we are fighting against?
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2022:
'Who helps when it’s no longer trending? Remembering the power of Black mutual aid.'
Mutual aid is what we’ve always known in Black communities and communities of colour internationally as abolitionist and survival praxis – from pardners, credit unions and funds, to big pots of shared stews, advocacy and revolutionary education. But over the last couple of years the term has been taken further away from anarchist and communist activism.
- Gal-Dem
2021:
'Critical Veganism, what have we learnt?'
When a white man coined the term veganism, are we included? Veganism is built on the backs of Black, Indigenous and Non-Western ancestral traditions.
- Vegan Melanated
2020:
'How to channel the anger of 2020 into sustainable activism in 2021'
The Akan concept of Sankofa, “to go back and get it” and keep learning from the past, has been the 2020 theme. This year we’ve witnessed an explosion of energy – reigniting mass protest movements that have brought the past and the present together.
- Gal-Dem
‘We’ve been organising like this since day’ – why we must remember the Black roots of mutual aid groups
As the black founder of a radical mutual aid group launched in 2018, I am frustrated to see new, white, middle-class mutual aid groups launched during the pandemic bulldozing pre-existing networks.
- Gal-Dem
- Review from Institute Of Contemporary Arts (London)
talks and panels:
2023:
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"Gender and Sexualised Minorities SIG: Trans Session – Views from Across the UK" The British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) Conference and Black Beetle Health
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"QTIPOC Conception, Pregnancy and Post-Partum Care" Black Beetle Health and LGBT Foundation
2022:
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"Mutual Aid: When and By Whom?" Edinburgh Radical Bookfair
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"Inside//Outside Solidarity" Abolition Feminism Conference by Read And Resist and Newcastle University
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"Beyond Us And Them: Insights From Solidarity Movements" Bond
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"The Return To Grassroots - Community Centric Fundraising As An Antidote" #BAMEOnline
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"#COPOut Film Panel" Nottingham Contemporary
2021:
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"Disability, Sex and Relationships" King's College Students Union
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"The Issue of Race Within the Charity Sector" Enthuse
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"When We Build Our Own Tables" Bubble Boss host for #BAMEOnline panels:
'There is Something Seriously Wrong With The Charity Industrial Complex' and
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"Manifesting Utopia - Guide and Podcast" CogDis
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"Beating Parole Boards with Mutual Aid" Imagining Abolition Conference USA
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"Beyond Veganism - Open Roundtable" Black Vegan Fest UK
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"Food Justice and Community Care" Black Vegan Fest UK
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"Mutual Aid - The Pandemic and Beyond" Notts IWW
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"Veguary Q&A Instagram Live" Afro-Vegan Society
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"Full Spectrum Community Care" We Speak Of Freedom Podcast
2020:
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"#BlackLivesMatter - A Day Of Anti-Racism Talks" King's College Student Union
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"Fundraising Everywhere Conference" Fundraising Everywhere
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"Egg Heads talk on Intersex and Disability Instagram Live" with @ki.sces
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"Warmth From The Fire - Imagination Beyond The Institution" Goldsmiths Student Union and The Community Witch Podcast
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"Discussion: Ableism - Unite Global Youth Pride" IGLYO (The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer & Intersex (LGBTQI) Youth and Student Organisation)
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"Postnatal Doula-ing Instagram Live" with @emceeaitch
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"Black and Queer and Community Organising - Notts Queer Pride" Instagram Live with @wewillbeproud
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"Sankofa and Pride and New Realities - Notts Queer Pride Instagram Live" with @the.community.witch
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"Self Care and Disability Justice In Activism - We Must Protect Us" Shadow Sistxrs Fight Club
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"Queer Feminist and Decolonial Alternatives To Covid 19" Criposium
features:
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"Interview with Organiser Eshe Kiama Zuri, Activist, Chef and Doula" Black Feminist Collective
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Afterword for "INNOCENCE & CORRUPTION" Book by Aiyana Goodfellow (Physical Copy)
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"Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in the 2023 Charity Digital Skills Report" Charity Digital Skills Report
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"How PCOS Can Create Gender Euphoria For Trans and Nonbinary People" Prism
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"Interview with Eshe Kiama Zuri" The Nature and Nurture Issue One Black Beetle Health Magazine
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"Here's Why I Embrace The Term Queer - And Why Others Reject It" Yahoo
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"How I’m Saving Myself From Burnout While Fighting For Change In The UK" Refinery29
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"Brick by Brick - How We Build a World Without Prisons" Book by Cradle Community (Physical Copy)
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"Radical Companionship: Rejecting Pethood and Embracing Our Multispecies World" Book by Aiyana Goodfellow (Physical Copy)
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"The Quiet But Affirming Birth Activism From [West] Midlands" Black Ballad
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"Afro Vegan Interviews: Eshe Kiama Zuri" Afro Vegan Society
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"Do We Get To Rest" DAMTP #21 Zine (Physical Copy)
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"Mutual Aid, Money and Shame" Classwork Project
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Forward for "Chav Solidarity" Book by D Hunter (Physical Copy in English, Italian and Greek)
mentions:
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"The gal-dem guide to getting involved in mutual aid" Gal-Dem
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"The role of communities and the use of technology in mitigating loneliness during the Coronavirus pandemic" Welsh Centre for Public Policy/ Canolfan Polisi Cyhoeddus Cymru
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"Worker-led feminist mobilizing for the museum of the future" Queen's University Belfast and European Journal of Women's Studies
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"Giving Back, How To Do Good, Better" Book by Derek Bardowell
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Chicago Art Census
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"The politics of organising during a pandemic" Annapurna Menon via Westminster Research
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"On Nourishment" JMB Consulting Blog
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"The amplifying effect of perceived group politicization: Effects of group perceptions and identification on anxiety and coping self‐efficacy among members of UK COVID‐19 mutual aid groups" National Library of Medicine and Wiley Online Library
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"Nursing Mutual Aid in 2020: A Non-Hierarchical Model For Scholarship Dissemination" Nursing Mutual Aid
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"Feminist housing activism in the 1970s-1980s, #3: Community organising and mutual aid" Glasgow Women's Library
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"What if nobody was disposable" The New Economics Zine #3
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"Building back differently: a case for climate justice through abolition" Shado Mag
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"How Covid has helped create a new focus on collaboration" Paul Hamlyn Foundation
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"Virtue Vs Virus" Dissertation SOAS University
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"Lessons of the Covid Mutual Aid Projects" Freedom News
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"The Politics of Anarchism, Burnout and Collective Care" Solidarity Apothecary for Derry Radical Bookfair
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"Cooperative Economies Zine" Chelsea Parise and Chris Keeve
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"Queer Black Joy" Lucy & Yak Blog
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"New Research, Articles and Judgements" Ariadne - European Funders for Social Change and Human Rights
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"Living lavish: How Black capitalism took over the conversation in 2020" Gal-Dem
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"Community support and mutual aid resources" University of Sussex
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"Rooting the Cross in its soil: the danger of sanitising grassroots movements during COVID-19" Durham University
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"Transformative justice, harm reduction and the acknowledgment of marginalised legacy in newly emergent COVID-19 mutual aid grassroots movements" Sheffield Transformative Justice Learning Group
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"Plagues and Power" Foundation For Change
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"Let's talk about intersectionality" Bright Zine
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"Cooperation Jackson on how to build an alternative economy for people of colour" The Independent
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"Campaign group wants to buy former play centre for £10 from Nottingham City Council" Nottingham Post
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Wikipedia entry for Mutual Aid (Organization Theory)