This Movement Will Take You So High and So Low

Authors

  • Mia Karisa Dawson University of California, Los Angeles

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v23i2.2388

Keywords:

Black Lives Matter, abolition, community organizing, empowerment, youth, queer identities

Abstract

I address this letter to myself on November 25, 2014, the day after the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, when a resounding silence in my college physics class sparked a fire in me and a journey of awakening and action. Somewhere between a love letter and a condolence, a reassurance and a forewarning, these words serve to soften my stumble towards empowerment and insight as I grow as a young organizer in the Black Lives Matter movement.

References

Decolonial Feminist Collective. 2021. Radicalizing + Decolonizing Feminism: Dr. Joy James, Jalessah T. Jackson, and Salome Ayuak. Charis Circle. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Zwr25UXJc&t=4002s>. (Accessed: 5-March-2024).

Ewing, Eve L (2019) Mariame Kaba: Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People. Adi Magazine.

Hilliard, David and Donald Weise. 2002. Speech Delivered at Boston College, 18 November 1970. The Huey P. Newton Reader. New York: Seven Stories Press. pp 60-180.

Payne, Charles. 1989. Ella Baker and Models of Social Change. Signs 14(4): 885–899.

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Published

2024-04-15

How to Cite

Dawson, M. (2024). This Movement Will Take You So High and So Low. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 23(2), 128–132. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v23i2.2388

Issue

Section

Special Issue: Desirable Futures