by Aya de Leon | Jul 9, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Opinion, Poetry
Tuesday, Harper’s published A Letter on Justice and Open Debate. The Daily Beast called it “a 532-word document that celebrates untrammeled free expression above all and rebukes the so-called ‘cancel culture’ that might take...
by Aya de Leon | Jul 6, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
One of the biggest challenges of organizing for the climate movement is that the information about the the climate crisis is terrifying. For some people, terror can be a motivating force. For most of us, it is immobilizing. How do you organize people when the...
by Aya de Leon | Jul 2, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Opinion, Personal Essays
When we developed a family-friendly action, FREEDOM FRIDAYS: A Family Walk & Chalk for Black Lives, we had no idea that chalking the sidewalk was legally considered graffiti in Oakland. I would like to begin the defense with Exhibit A: Sidewalk Chalk. This chalk...
by Aya de Leon | Jun 29, 2020 | Audio/Visual
The latest in my Afrofuturism collage series. This is it. This is our time, Black people. Let’s do it. Let’s save ourselves. Let’s save the future.
by Aya de Leon | Jun 25, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Opinion, Personal Essays
The text of this spoken word piece was originally published by The Acentos Review, a quarterly literary and arts journal that promotes and publishes Latinx work, in their June 19 issue, titled Black and Glorious: Towards Black Liberation. For so many of us Black...
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