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Josie Pickens

@jonubian

Educator. Organizer. Cultural Critic. Writer. Bylines: Ebony, Essence, Shondaland, Bitch +. Director of @upendmovement. Opinions presented are mine. (She/her)

 Houston, TX
Joined February 2009
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Happy to share that I’m joining the @upendmovement team as its program director. UpEND’s goal is to interrogate and dismantle the family policing system, which is more commonly known as the child welfare system. Follow @upendmovement! Dream with us! Another world is possible!
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New season of @upendmovement podcast starts now!
upEND Movement (@upendmovement) profile pictureupEND Movement@upendmovement19 Sep 2024
Hosts Josie Pickens @jonubian and @oJaison explore questions of #solidarity in Season 2 of the upEND Podcast which premieres this month. Listen to the full trailer: upendmovement.org/episode-2-…
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This work ❤️
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upEND's Program Director @jonubian was featured on the latest episode of The Fix by @TexasCASA. Full video 🔗: youtube.com/watch?v=bpHpGuhq…
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Disproportionality isn't the problem we're trying to fix. We don't want the family policing system to distribute trauma equally. It's time to dismantle the whole thing to stop the harm of family separations. ⁠ Watch full video by @TexasCASA 🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=bpHpGuhq…
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I joined this app FIFTEEN YEARS AGO! Wow.
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Maya Pendleton @mvpendleton talks with @dylanrodriguez, @jonubian, and @oJaison about how she sometimes "hits a wall" with people when talking about family policing abolition. ⁠ ⁠ Listen to "Reforms Don't Work". 🎧 upendmovement.org/episode1-6…
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TONIGHT: @oJaison and @jonubian will host a creative visioning session to equip and inspire you to enter Afrofuturist art into our "Dream, Create, Liberate" contest. Josie and Jaison are founders of Bask Black, a Houston-based arts advocacy initiative. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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I wrote about Ibram Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research and the broader implications for the movement against racism. newyorker.com/news/our-colum…

Ibram X. Kendi’s Anti-Racism

The historian espoused grand ambitions to dismantle American racism, but the crisis at his research center suggests that he always had a more limited view of change.

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"Today, many cases in family court that allege certain types of abuse and neglect are actually byproducts of poverty and community disinvestment that cause tremendous amounts of family displacement." teenvogue.com/story/the-chil…
The Child Welfare System Traumatizes Black and Brown Kids

The Child Welfare System Traumatizes Black and Brown Kids

The vast majority of kids caught up in child welfare cases are African American or Latino.

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TONIGHT HOUSTON! If you’re interested in history, if you want to help and honor Black families, if you want to learn more about abolition and our work at @upendmovement, please join us tonight at @kindred_stories at 7:30 pm!
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BIG Congrats @lynneedenise ! Can’t wait to pick this up!
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For many Black girls, celebrating 50 years of Hip Hop is a mixed bag. Beauty and ashes. Thank Goddess I found @dreamhampton ‘s “Free The Girls” to serve as both an echo and a balm years ago. It’s still offers both, today: dreamhampton.com/post/free-t…
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DRR@DiggsWayne11 Aug 2023
I went to an exhibit of 50 years of Hip Hop photography. OutKast by Timothy White. Look how young they are. :)
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Can’t wait to watch this!
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Great 🧵about industry and, well, capitalism.
Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) profile pictureCodie Sanchez
@Codie_Sanchez2 Aug 2023
Amazon is facing an $8B/year problem. • ~75% of employees leave the company • Only 1/3 of new hires stay for >90 days • 100% employee turnover in warehouses (double the industry average) But it gets even worse. Let me explain:
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Texas Is Quietly Leading the Way on Limiting Child Protective Services Overreach texasmonthly.com/news-politi… (Thank you @strawburriez for including my thoughts in this important piece!)
Texas Is Quietly Leading the Way on Limiting Child Protective Services Overreach

Texas Is Quietly Leading the Way on Limiting Child Protective Services Overreach

Policy changes aimed at reducing the number of children who end up in foster care—many championed by progressives in blue states—are being passed by Republicans in Texas.

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