Stories for Power (StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP))
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| 08 Apr 2025 | Presenting: Stories for Power | 00:01:28 | |
What does transformative justice look like and where did it come from? Join us for a journey across local communities as we explore the last 25 years of building community accountability, transformative justice and abolitionist practice. Through the Stories for Power podcast, hosted by Deana Lewis, we trace the work of some of the architects and radical organizers of this current wave of work. This podcast is part of the relaunch of STOP – the StoryTelling & Organizing Project – presented by Creative Interventions and Just Practice Collaborative. STOP collects and shares stories of everyday people, organizations and networks taking action to confront and end domestic and sexual violence through people power – not the power of the state. Tune in on April 15th for the official launch of the Stories for Power Podcast!☆ Learn more at StoriesforPower.org Presented by Creative Interventions and Just Practice Collaborative Executive Producers — Mimi Kim, Rachel Caïdor & Shira Hassan Producer, Sound Recordist, and Editor — iLL Weaver for Emergence Media Host - Deana Lewis Music Editor and Audio Engineer — Joe Namy Digital Strategy- Yessica Gonzalez Graphic Design - And Also Too Theme song & music composed by — Scale Hands and L05 of Complex Movements in collaboration with Ahya Simone Stories for Power is supported by Collective Futures Fund and Libra Foundation Learn more and share your stories at StoriesforPower.org | |||
| 15 Apr 2025 | Introduction | 00:38:23 | |
Welcome to Stories for Power! Creative Interventions and Just Practice Collaborative joined forces to re-launch the StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP) project to document and collect histories and stories about how we have been working to respond to violence without the use of prisons, police and other carceral systems. Deana Lewis, our podcast host and Just Practice Collaborative member, speaks with producers Mimi Kim, Rachel Caidor and Shira Hassan to introduce Stories for Power. These abolitionist feminists share how they envisioned and curated the podcast series to document the evolution of community accountability and transformative justice frameworks and local/national strategies since their own origins in the anti-violence movements of the 1980’s and 1990’s. Join us as we talk about some of the critical ideas and juicy parts of the podcast and reflect on over 20+ years of organizing captured in this precious archive of stories and feelings that shape our current abolitionist movement. List of organizations/historic/current references mentioned in this episode: Incite! Women & Trans People Against Violence StoryTelling Organizing & Project (STOP) Presented by Creative Interventions and Just Practice Collaborative Executive Producers — Mimi Kim, Rachel Caïdor & Shira Hassan Producer, Sound Recordist, and Editor — iLL Weaver for Emergence Media Host - Deana Lewis Music Editor and Audio Engineer — Joe Namy Digital Strategy- Yessica Gonzalez Graphic Design - And Also Too Theme song & music composed by — Scale Hands and L05 of Complex Movements in collaboration with Ahya Simone Stories for Power is supported by Collective Futures Fund and Libra Foundation Learn more and share your stories at StoriesforPower.org | |||
| 22 Apr 2025 | Trans & Queer Organizing | 00:53:10 | |
In this episode, host Deana Lewis talks with micah hobbes frazier and Morgan Bassichis, two trans/nonbinary leaders of the transformative justice/prison abolition movement emerging out of radical organizing in queer/trans spaces in the early to mid-2000’s. micah, in his role at generationFIVE and in the harm reduction movement, and Morgan, formerly at Communities United Against Violence (CUAV), reflect on the centrality of queer/trans justice, racial and economic justice, and prison abolition as anchors to early transformative justice work. In stark contrast to the conservative LGBTQ movement’s embrace of marriage, military inclusion, hate crimes and “pinkwashing” that continue to shape neoliberal discourse, Micah and Morgan trace abolitionist BIPOC-led queer/trans organizing back to the radical roots of the Black Panthers and Oakland–based racial and economic justice movement origins. List of references mentioned in this episode: Communities United Against Violence (CUAV) Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project Transforming Justice Conference US Social Forum - Detroit (2010) US Social Forum - Atlanta (2007) Audre Lorde Project - Safe Outside the System (SOS) StoryTelling Organizing & Project (STOP) Presented by Creative Interventions and Just Practice Collaborative Executive Producers — Mimi Kim, Rachel Caïdor & Shira Hassan Producer, Sound Recordist, and Editor — iLL Weaver for Emergence Media Host - Deana Lewis Music Editor and Audio Engineer — Joe Namy Digital Strategy- Yessica Gonzalez Graphic Design - And Also Too Theme song & music composed by — Scale Hands and L05 of Complex Movements in collaboration with Ahya Simone Stories for Power is supported by Collective Futures Fund and Libra Foundation Learn more and share your stories at StoriesforPower.org | |||