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This episode we're talking about FEARLESS & FREE, the memoir of Josephine Baker, with an introduction by the brilliant @ijeomaoluo.bsky.social
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Black, brown, Indigenous, immigrant, trans and disabled people do not exist simply as cautionary tales to the privileged who do not want to recognize how they are harmed by these systems and how we are harmed by their complicity.
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BECAUSE THEY ARE BOOKS
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So far, book jail has been a life sentence. It's very hard to un-annoy me and the books refuse to participate in any restorative justice process.
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But today the paperback version of Be A Revolution launched and I'm SO EXCITED to say that my chapter on conflict is back!
I got a copy in the mail and read that chapter again and literally cried, I love it so much
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I was really heartbroken by this choice, because I loved that chapter and knew that it was important. My agent promised that we'd be able to get it to the world one day.
In the year since publish date, I've seen conflict destroy so many vital movement efforts. I've regretted that cut even more.
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With Be A Revolution, I already knew I was going way past that word count, because it's just too big an idea for so few words.
But after over-stretching word limits, I was told I would have to cut my chapter on conflict in movement work.
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
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And people like to pretend that we can create systemic change without directly disrupting current systems, but we absolutely cannot. These systems have to be torn down, and how we care for each other will show what we can build in their place.