NEWS
Ending the foster care system is a process.
Ending foster care means not just the closing of foster homes but prioritizing the building of critical systems of support for families and communities.
The Power of Co-Opting: Language Is Changing, But Will It Change the Status Quo?
When we call a system that surveils, regulates, punishes, and forcibly separates families a “child welfare system,” we misconstrue that system’s purpose and actions.
Reproductive Justice Demands the End of Family Policing
Communities gathering to abolish the family policing system are continuing the ongoing struggle against reproductive oppression.
Finding Space to Imagine: How White Supremacy Culture Stifles Creativity
How do we collectively and collaboratively create new ways of supporting and caring for families without replicating the coercive structure, surveillance, and separation in other forms?
Making Possible the Impossible: A Black Feminist Perspective on Child Welfare Abolition
In 1863, Harriet Tubman and eight of her trusted scouts orchestrated the Combahee River uprising in South Carolina. The uprising…
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