11/18/2023 0 Comments Samuel steward yogaI love organizing with #LetUsBreathe collective, because of the emphasis we put on presence as a way to actively co-create a world where prisons, police, anti-Blackness, colonialism, patriarchy and all systems of oppression are eradicated/obsolete. everything is an affirmation that we are what we need, and together we can build a liberated world. Samuel Morris Steward was born in 1909 in Woodsfield, Ohio, and raised by aunts after his mother died and his alcoholic and drug-addicted father proved incapable of looking after him. With #LetUsBreathe collective whether we’re doing food distributions, holding events, creating art, connecting in the garden, etc. colonialism in Puerto Rico we talk a lot about how cultural affirmation is our resistance. In my work organizing specifically against U.S. What has made this collective a home/family for me is the model/values behind all the organizing work we do that centers community, healing, creating, and the leadership/empowerment of Black and indigenous folks. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. I love being able to connect with community members to have conversations about what a world without prisons and police would look like, and getting to talk about what we do at the #BreathingRoom space as an example. Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. What initially drew me to #LetUsBreathe Collective was my passion for imagining a world without prisons and police, and the yearning I had to be in community with people who were truly committed to creating that world together. Sam joined the department in 2006 with a B.S. Please email Sam Johnson for instuctions on how to join the class. Outside of work, she enjoys hiking, biking, yoga, cooking, reading. I am a community journalist, organizer, artist, and ever evolving human being born and raised in Humboldt Park. Gentle Yoga is focused on alignment, stretching, and strengthening. Through science fiction, Afrofuturism, and speculative media, we create opportunities to rehearse the future together. Liberation is a curatorial act, a creative act revolution is inherently speculative in nature. A foundational premise of her organizing is that artists are the vanguard of revolution, that it is the social duty of creatives to envision, imagine, rehearse, design, and embody our liberated future we cannot achieve alternatives to the existing harmful, violent systems and institutions if we can’t first imagine them. Her current work explores Afrofuturist media as a catalyst for social change. Kristiana’s writing, producing, and organizing work to radically reimagine power structures, our complicity in them, and visions for liberation. Kristiana Rae Colón is a poet, playwright, actor, educator, producer, curator, creator of #BlackSexMatters, co-director of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, the inaugural Sam Roberson Fellow at Congo Square Theater, and writer on seasons 4 and 5 of The Chi.
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