Black History Month has always been about abolition for me. I may not have known the word abolition as a young girl, but I understood abolition in my spirit. At my core, I witnessed a community rav…
I may not have known the word abolition as a young girl, but I understood abolition in my spirit. At my core, I witnessed a community ravaged and decimated by police and prisons, and I wanted more for us. I would stay up for hours in my bed, imagining a world where all of my loved ones were treated well and loved on. When I read books or watched television shows and films, I rarely saw Black communities surrounded with care, dignity and love.
As I step into the storytelling space, I can’t help but think of all the things left out about Black people and our lives. How often was I told a story about myself and my community that was completely untrue? How often was I told stories about how we were “criminals,” unlovable, and deserved to be shunned or banished, locked away in a cage with no chance of experiencing redemption and transformation?While harm happened , so much more happened.
In the work I’m developing for Warner Bros., I am choosing to focus on abolition as a way to tell a complicated and powerful story about the flaws and the gifts of our communities. I’m interested in shaping new realities for Black people based on the lived reality we experience daily.We must retool the vision and perspective the white carceral gaze has injected on all of us. Our job is to create a reflection and a mirror of sorts to help bring us back to who we truly are.
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