#beyondsurvival

What a gift for anyone who needs concrete and practical ways of rectifying harms and ensuring accountability, that takes into account folks having mental health crises, and avoiding traditional approaches that rely on punishment, incarceration, or policing. This is a how to with actionable approaches and tools. The care put forth to focus on all involved including those who cause the harm is something we all need as in some form or fashion we all have been harmed and have harmed others. So proud of our friend, sister and comrade @ejeris for editing such an important piece of work with @leahlakshmiwrites Please be sure to get the book from @akpressdistro The book includes writing, tools and interviews by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Kai Cheng Thom, Amita Swadhin, Audrey Huntley, Amanda Aguilar Shank, Janae E Bonsu of BYP100, Philly Stands Up (Esteban Kelly, Jenna Peters-Golden, Qui Dorian, Bench Ansfield and Beth Blum), Creative Interventions, Trans Lifeline, Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, Oakland Power Projects, SOS Collective/Audre Lorde Project, Icarus Project/ Fireweed Collective, Raquel Lavina, Chris Lymbertos, RJ Maccani, Nathan Shara, Staci Haines, Georgia Latino Alliance For Human Rights, MIJENTE, Monica Sehovic Bowen Forrester, Elene Lam, Chanelle Gallant, Elisabeth Marie Long, adrienne maree brown, Adrian Cole, Yalini Dream, Shira Hassan, Mariame Kaba and Mimi Kim. #transformativejustice #beyondsurvival #akpress (at Planet Earth) https://www.instagram.com/p/B75-WVkl8eT/?igshid=am76lekmfd0v

day 3, prayers upon prayers. happening today in my heart's home- South Central will be out in the streets honoring, uplifting, and building community marking the 50th year anniversary of the L.A. Uprisings. the events of today are a sort of paying respects to and building Upon the long history of lucha/struggle for human rights, justice, and dignity. movements bring life to the forefront of our minds, Spirits, cultures, to our media, to our on the ground community, everyone trying to live beyond survival. this here picture is one of my favorite flowers- Ollin Sage Coyote! my lil Life making a funny face for the camera, standing in front of the puppet mama Luna will be wearing today for the march down Florence @ Normandie. sending my prayers and light to all who find themselves out there today. I've decided to stay in to regenerate after a long week of work and physical exhaustion but my Spirit is right there with my South L.A. Loves and Movement families. light, light, light! may each tear we shed today be one that leads us to Osun's healing sweetness and a Justice this world is yet to witness. #lucha #movement #justice #dignity #life #beyondsurvival #letusgetfree #activelove #andsoitis #prayersup #solidarity #southcentral #southl.a. #byebyeoldworld #newcyclesnewlegacies

Definitely putting this book on my list. I remember writing about Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz in college, and again in graduate school, and this idea, that survival is not all there is, became an important theme to me. I guess it’s the idea that there’s something that makes life worth living: the humanity of how we treat people, connections to people and the world around us, the art, the music... something that is required move us from survival to living.