by Ashley Cooper | Jul 9, 2020 | BlackLivesMatter, Racial Justice, System change, White Supremacy Culture
Read Tawana Petty’s Book: Towards Humanity: Shifting the Culture of Anti-Racism Organizing “After years of engaging in various forms of anti-racism organizing, I discovered that the methods that were being used lent to further dehumanization of many...
by Ashley Cooper | Jul 2, 2020 | Economy of Care, Personal Reflections, Poverty, System change
This morning a map showing areas where covid is flaring made me curious how it compares to a map of poverty. Then a haunting photo of a child caught my heart… What allows me to turn away?What is at work in my personal biologythat lets me shield myself from...
by Ashley Cooper | Jun 26, 2020 | Abolition, BlackLivesMatter, Racial Justice, Reform, White Supremacy Culture
“Slave patrols” became police departments. “Slave barracks” became prisons. These institutions must be abolished because their foundation has nothing to do with public safety and rehabilitation and everything to do with oppression, forced...
by Ashley Cooper | Jun 8, 2020 | Emotional Health, Grief, Pandemic, Personal Reflections
This animation was created in May during the COVID-19 Stay Home Stay Safe order as a way to make visual the reality that we are each having our own pandemic experience. It evolved from a graphic I created to try and make sense of the many different contributing...
by Ashley Cooper | Jun 7, 2020 | Asheville/Buncombe County, BlackLivesMatter, Racial Justice
What can I do? Whether it’s the murder of George Floyd, the health and economic impacts of Covid-19, or the widespread militarized police responses to peaceful protesting, the racialized brutalities of America are staring many White folks in the face and...
