Our history, our future | Bringing Black Organisers and Campaigners together from across the UK
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🚨 Tobi Adebajo and @kinfolknetwork are hosting a grief healing space called 'Holding Yours, Gathering Ours'. Let's spread the word!
📅 Sunday 4th December
🕰️ 11AM-3PM
📍 198 Railton Road, SE24 0JT
🍪 Food and drinks will be provided🥤
📎 bit.ly/3ECkhow
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Join KIN for an evening of collective conversation, campaign sharing, and food for Black migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, and Black people interested in migrant justice!
Mon 7th Nov 6-8:30PM at SOAS, London and online.
Reserve your free ticket:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-mig…
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We're recruiting, again! 📢 🤩
We're currently looking for a new Director (Maternity Cover) AND a part-time Operations Manager. Could this be you?!
The job packs are on our website (linked), please feel free to circulate far and wide!
ow.ly/pbHA50JW83s
ALT A group of black activists and organisers standing together in a circle, each holding a piece of the same blue string.
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***NEW Monthly Parent/Carer Forum 🚀 on Sat. 6 Feb 1-2pm*** If your child is at risk of exclusion (or has already experienced it) come along to get support, skills, knowledge & community care. We centre the exp. & needs of Black & Brown families, but all welcome. Email us 2 book
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Inspired by a day of changing leadership? Could you build on the amazing foundations laid by the current team to take the @kinfolknetwork to even greater heights?
More info: kinfolknetwork.com/vacancies…
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Historical and persistent colonial dynamics underpin the exploitation of minoritised people. The valid medical mistrust this gives rise to must be acknowledged, rather than dangerously conflated with the anti-vaccination movement.
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the incred @kinfolknetwork, co-founded by the brilliant @AyeishaTS, are on the look out for Co-Directors. A super job! This week coming they are running a webinar where you can find out more the network and the job - please pass along to anyone you think would be interested 💕
Are you thinking about applying to become a KIN Co-Director?
Come along to this webinar to hear from Co-Founders @AyeishaTS @ZahraDalilah1 @kennedysrwalker to find out more about us and the role 😙.
Thursday 21st January, 18:00-19:30
Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-w…
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It's finally happening!
@kinfolknetwork are hiring for our new leadership team, and not a day too soon 😁
Me and KIN co-founders @kennedysrwalker & @ZahraDalilah1 are so proud, pleased and exhausted, so Twitter family please help us spread the word about these amazing roles!
We’re hiring!📣🎉🌟
We’re looking for co-directors to lead KIN into the next phase of its work bringing black organisers and campaigners together to learn from each other, build relationships and strengthen community.
More info: kinfolknetwork.com/vacancies…
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Tomorrow racial justice activist Rima Hamid (@RZA888), takes over Arrivals + Departures to recognise & honour those killed in last year's Khartoum Massacre.
This acts as an invitation to mark victims of systemic tyranny worldwide.
Find out more here: bit.ly/ArrivalsDeps
ALT Arrivals + Departures installation, consisting of a free-standing airport departures board, in the courtyard at Somerset House with fountains in the foreground.
ALT Portrait of racial justice activist Rima Hamid looking into the camera, wearing a yellow coat with her hands in her pocket.
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DEPARTURE
Elie Che
31/08/2020
Elie left a mark on this world as a beautiful woman who bravely spoke up for black trans women, but still shared her vulnerability. At 23 she will be dearly missed & cherished, but her life will never be forgotten.
@kinfolknetwork
ALT Photograph of Black trans activist Elie Che
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DEPARTURE
Christopher Alder
April 1998
Christopher was a trainee computer programmer and former paratrooper, his was life taken away by the State. His sister Janet now still fights for accountability from the South Yorkshire Police Force & for peace over his death.
ALT Portrait of Christopher Alder, a trainee computer programmer and former paratrooper whose life taken away by the State.
ALT Protestors marching and campaigning for justice for the killing of Christopher Alder
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"The departures and arrivals shared today address how Black death is not contained to a state of emergency, but upholds a status quo which governs ideas of worth, and entitlement to life and death." - Toni Lee, @kinfolknetwork
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ARRIVAL
Akeelah Bertram
05/06/1990
An artist who challenges the limits of bodies as they move through physical and emotional states of separation. Her work contends with the violence of slavery, prompting a sense of arrival grounded in return.
@kinfolknetwork @ArrivalsandDeps
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❓How can the #NHS centre racial justice and tackle institutional racism?
❓What needs to change to make this happen?
This workshop will be for people of colour
✍️🏾Sign up to have your say on the demands for an #NHSNewDeal
actionnetwork.org/events/cen…
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📝 Late last year I observed conversations between ~30 black activists from across the diaspora for @kinfolknetwork & @RunnymedeTrust and the report is ready to read
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*2019 convening report available*
Last year we held our first multi-day international convening. Almost 30 campaigners, organisers, and activists from four continents and nine countries shared stories, strategies, and struggles.
Report available here kinfolknetwork.com/news/kin-…
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JUST £495 TO GO UNTIL WE HIT £80k 🎯🎯🎯
Can you help us make it to this major milestone before the evening is out?
Donate here ⤵️
gofundme.com/f/the-free-blac…
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Forget about whether Kier ‘Tough on Crime’ Starmer is on board with a BLM *movement* demand.
Make defunding the police the brick and mortar of localised organising and win the argument in queues, in parks, in community centres and on doorsteps.
What is the argument?
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TODAY’S SHOW...
- We’re speaking to @seanibremix about his amazing show with @DJAce this week on @1Xtra after the killing of George Floyd
@AyeishaTS co-founder of @kinfolknetwork is on to chat to us about turning emotions into positive change
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For those who've asked, another great place to donate right now is @blackmindsuk - they're fundraising to cover the therapy costs of black people who need support in this moment.
gofundme.com/f/black-minds-m…
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Black folks, check out this free 7-day journalling exercise to help you process your thoughts right now. From the amazing art collective Freedom and Balance 👏🏾✊🏾
freedomandbalance.com/iloveu…