The upEND Podcast

 

We can build a society where children and families are strengthened and supported, not surveilled and separated. The upEND Podcast illustrates that the “child welfare” system is beyond reform and needs to be abolished. The only solution to ending the harm of what we name the family policing system is a fundamental reimagining of the way society cares for children and families.

 

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Season 2

Season 2 Trailer 

with hosts Josie Pickens and Jaison Oliver

Becoming Internationalists (with Nadia Ben-Youssef and Tarek Ismail)

Becoming Internationalists

with Nadia Ben-Youssef and Tarek Z. Ismail

The upEND Podcast episode thumbnail for “The Real Cost of Prisons with Bianca Tylek” features Bianca wearing a red shirt and smiling. The background shows a telephone on the wall with grainy blue texture overlayed.

The Real Cost of Prisons

with Bianca Tylek

The upEND Podcast thumbnail features a "Live" recording icon and a group photo of Corey Best, Tanisha Long, Tarek Ismail, and Jennefer Canales-Pelaez.

In Solidarity – upEND Convening Live Recording

with Corey B. Best, Tanisha Long, Jennefer Canales-Pelaez, and Tarek Ismail

Marcella Gilbert looks directly at the camera in this thumbnail for The upEND Podcast episode "Warrior Women". The backgroun of the image is a still from the documentary that shows generations of Indigenous girls sitting on the floor.

Warrior Women 

with Marcella Gilbert

 

The upEND Podcast thumbnail for the episode “Unbuild Walls” features author and organizer Silky Shah in front of a teal grungy background overlayed over a photo of the Mexican border wall.

Unbuild Walls

with Silky Shah

The thumbnail image for the episode Cops in Cardigans with Erica Meiner features a blue and green overlayed on a photo of school desks. Erica’s hair is blonde and short and they are wearing pink glasses.

Cops in Cardigans 

with Erica Meiners

The Adult Preschool episode thumbnail features Nalo wearing a white blazer with black square glasses.

Adult Preschool 

with Nalo Zidan

The thumbnail for the episode called “Why We Need Abortion Doulas (with Ash Williams)” features Ash wearing an N95 mask, a green striped shirt and a keffiyeh is draped over his shoulder. The background shows flower petals and candles.

Why We Need Abortion Doulas

with Ash Williams

Season 1

The Story Starts Here | Episode 1 

with Ndjuoh MehChu and Vanessa M. Holden

Save the Children! | Episode 2 

with Dorothy Roberts and Geoff Ward

Repeal CAPTA | Episode 3

with Richard Wexler, Mical Raz, and Angela Burton

 

Help is NOT on the way episode thumbnail featuring Brianna Harvey in an orange professional blazer and Victoria Copeland in a t-shirt that reads "Curb Ableism".

Help is NOT on the Way | Episode 4

with Brianna Harvey and Victoria Copeland

Family Defenders | Episode 5

with Joyce McMillan & Shanta Trivedi

Reforms Don’t Work | Episode 6

with Dylan Rodríguez and Maya Pendleton

Season One Finale | Episode 8

with Maya Pendleton and Alan Dettlaff

Meet the Hosts

upEND’s program director Josie Pickens is a Houston, TX-based organizer, educator, journalist, and culturalist whose writings and public conversations focus on race, gender, and sexuality. Josie has been regularly published in Ebony, Essence, Bitch, The Root, Cassius, Mic, and more. She has more than twenty years of community organizing experience where her focus has been prison-industrial-complex-abolition, family policing system abolition, and building mutual aid networks.

 

Jaison Oliver is an educator and community organizer working on upEND’s communications team. As a member of the BLMHTX/ImagiNoir Collective, he builds collaborative spaces in order to imagine and create abolitionist communities where Black people can thrive.

Josie Pickens and Jaison Oliver sit next to each other on a blue arm chair and look toward the camera.

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