Josie Pickens

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!

New season of @upendmovement podcast starts now!

This work ❤️

upEND's Program Director @jonubian was featured on the latest episode of The Fix by @TexasCASA. Full video 🔗: youtube.com/watch?v=bpHpGu…

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=bpHpGu…

I joined this app FIFTEEN YEARS AGO! Wow.

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/

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/regist…

I wrote about Ibram Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research and the broader implications for the movement against racism. newyorker.com/news/our-colum…

"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…

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!

BIG Congrats @lynneedenise ! Can’t wait to pick this up!

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-the-…

I went to an exhibit of 50 years of Hip Hop photography. OutKast by Timothy White. Look how young they are. :)

Can’t wait to watch this!

@AlanDettlaff SO EXCITING!

Great 🧵about industry and, well, capitalism.

Texas Is Quietly Leading the Way on Limiting Child Protective Services Overreach texasmonthly.com/news-politics/… (Thank you @strawburriez for including my thoughts in this important piece!)

@dreamhampton You’re a miracle. ❤️❤️