Episode 21: Defending Justice Against Family Policing

Episode 21: Defending Justice Against Family Policing

Defending Justice Against Family Policing

EPISODE 21

tehra coles

Welcome good listeners to Audio Nuggets, right here in the Mining For Gold cypher. We are joined with Tehra Coles for Episode 21: Defending Justice Against Family Policing.  

Tehra Coles is the Executive Director of the Center for Family Representation, a public defender office in New York City that represents parents in family policing cases in Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx. 

In this episode, we glimpse Tehra’s journey of discovery. With all the zeal at her command while advocating for families, she realizes that alone, she wouldn’t be able to bring justice to families. 

Using a legal and racial analysis, Tehra explains the necessity in using accurate language to describe what we are doing to families, why using the terminology “the family policing system” is justice doing, and how by using this language, families that are impacted by this vicious and violent institution can be affirmed by knowing that people are listening. 

Tehra shares the commitment of CFR to building a culture that is saturated with the leadership and voices of impacted families. The audience also hears why abolition is the only option, and how CFR and organizations like it are supporting the movement.

Sit back, embrace, and reflect. Tehra leaves us with a call to GET ON BOARD!

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Episode 20: Humanity is Amazing!

Episode 20: Humanity is Amazing!

Humanity is Amazing!

EPISODE 20

judge aurora martinez jones

Welcome good listeners to another edition of Audio Nuggets, right here in the Mining For Gold cypher!  Get ready…you are about to experience an explosion of nuggets from the Honorable Judge Aurora Martinez Jones in Episode 20: Humanity is Amazing!

Judge Aurora Martinez Jones presides over the historical 126th District Court in Travis County, Texas, where she co-founded the Child Welfare Race Equity Collaborative (CWREC). Currently, Judge Martinez Jones is leading a community effort in a local pilot to Re-Imagine the Child Welfare system. 

Through this episode, listeners experience Your Honor’s embodiment of full humanity, justice and liberation, as she shares with us the ways in which she has supported parents through the most daunting times of their lives with justice-centered representation as an attorney and now as the presiding District Judge.

The conversation showcases how her “empathy faucet” is purpose driven for our children and families, and how she has devoted herself, given of herself, and has received and answered the call to caring for entire communities.

Your Honor leaves the audience with the most heartwarming story that embodies her soul, the story of an experience that changed her in ways that are still being written.  It is the story of literally walking in another’s shoes!  We are grateful to be in community and right relationship with Your Honor. Sit back and listen and absorb every morsel of gold!

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Episode 19: Escaping Replacement Culture

Episode 19: Escaping Replacement Culture

A Look Within- Escaping Replacement Culture

EPISODE 19

cordelia cranshaw

Welcome back good listeners to another edition of Audio Nuggets.  We are excited to be joined in the rhythm of the cypher by Cordelia Cranshaw Skeete for Episode 19: A Look Within—Escaping Replacement Culture.

Cordelia Cranshaw Skeete is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, representing the District of Columbia. Despite the odds stacked against Cordelia as an adolescent, she guides others on their healing journey and believes that the journey is just as important as the destination.

Cordelia graces the audience with her liberated voice for abolition of the family policing system.  Cordelia shares her journey of how she came to find the ways she could use her experiences, knowledge, gifts and talents to make an impact for families who are harmed by the family policing system.

The conversation is a truth-telling experience; illuminating the lack of understanding by the family policing system’s workforce of the true depths of trauma and harm that is caused to families by the institution.  Fixing doesn’t work. Families aren’t broken. It’s time to look within and understand the need and desire to replace children’s families.

Cordelia shares her sense of belonging and liberation, her commitment to support others in finding their own belonging through a healing journey, and her deep love, respect, and admiration for her community of Black women. Coradelia leaves parents with the call to never give up. Hold onto hope. And she asks all others to take a good, long look in the mirror…it’s time for a look within.

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Episode 18: Abolitioning

Episode 18: Abolitioning

Abolitioning

EPISODE 18

Erin miles cloud

Welcome back good listeners to the Mining For Gold cypher! We are honored and grateful to be joined by Erin Miles Cloud for this amazing and radical Episode 18: Abolitioning.

Erin Miles Cloud is the co-founder and co-director for Movement For Family Power. MFP works to end the family policing system and punishment of families to create a world where the dignity and integrity of all families is valued and supported.

In this episode, listeners have an opportunity to learn from Erin, explore, act, and discover what the process of abolition is, while she dispels many myths. Erin educates listeners on what it looks like when we are abolitionING in everyday justice-centered practice. We learn that abolition is about keeping everyone safe, including people who are harmed and who do harm; this is a fundamental piece that is baked into the design. Erin reveals the BOTH AND; the requirement to hold both the practice and ritual of dismantling, and the ritual of building. Myth busting again; abolition doesn’t require us to do both, but it requires that we HOLD both.

Erin reinforces that we cannot do this process alone. We have to be in coalition with people who have the talent to do the dismantling and the talent of building. We hold a grander vision in the steps toward abolition for a more participatory society and anti-racist. Abolitionists are practical!

Sit back and listen, absorb, and dream the liberation with an open and humble heart.

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Episode 17: Part 2 – Reconcile with Terminating The Institution’s Rights

Episode 17: Part 2 – Reconcile with Terminating The Institution’s Rights

Part 2 – Reconcile With Terminating The Institution’s Rights

EPISODE 17

tewabech genet stewart

Welcome back, good listeners!  We are back in the cypher with Tewabech Genet Stewart for the much-anticipated Episode 17: Part 2 – Reconcile With Terminating The Institution’s Rights.

Part 2 deepens the frame into the pains of growth and the developmental process. Tewabech uses her liberated voice to gift listeners with her experience of having her orientation challenged. And that it takes people and collectivism to heal.

Tewabech reveals a crafted framework of principles of a re-invented institution that supports families, while discontinuing harmful practices.  The ideas are rooted in a clear understanding of plantation ethos; that calls for moving families from the field to the house.

Tewabech lives her grounded truth, is disciplined in reconciliation and atonement, all to be prepared for the mission of the healing and justice-centered work that she knows is required of her. It is time for DCF to have their rights terminated!

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Episode 16: Celebrating Black Fatherhood

Episode 16: Celebrating Black Fatherhood

Celebrating Black Fatherhood

EPISODE 16

Victor Sims

Audio Nuggets is honored to drop a unique and special, Fathers Day ’23 edition, right here in the cypher. We welcome Victor Sims for Episode 16: Celebrating Black Fatherhood.

Victor Sims is a son, brother, husband and now a father to a little girl, named Harleigh. Victor, like far too many Black children, has been impacted by Florida’s foster care system. Victor’s work includes helping to improve children’s experiences when they are removed from their parents. Victor is set to release a book this summer, “The Day I Stopped Crying”.

The conversation is rooted in the transformation of Black fathers from being “the impacted”, to being leaders that influence change and know the value of co-design with people. All while challenging the ideology that Black skin has never been the issue, that it is racism that is the issue.

Victor gifts the audience with vulnerability in sharing his deepest insights on what racism has cost him, revealing the immense cost of stripping away his identity. The conversation deepens to unhook the violent destructiveness of family separation that has plagued generations upon generations of Black families.
Victor also shares the joys of liberation he experiences by living on purpose, with a purpose.

Listeners experience Victor’s journey of healing, liberation, and belonging. A journey that is wrapped in truth not being absolute, a journey of grieving ancestral blood lines, and embracing Black fatherhood as he travels the path toward racial justice, liberation, and belonging for Black families.

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