Abolition as Resurrection

Camille Hernandez & Jia Johnson
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Abolition as Resurrection is a podcast miniseries co-produced and co-hosted by Camille Hernandez and Jia Johnson that is created for the Lenten and Easter season. This podcast seeks to understand abolition without co-opting or inserting ideologies that have not been consistent with the movement. Through interviewing abolitionists, theologians, and scholars our goal is to understand if there is a relationship between the theology of Resurrection and the Abolition movement to discover if we can find a path forward that we can implement in our everyday lives.

  1. 04/17/2022

    Freedom Dreams of Reparations for Resurrection Sunday

    On this Resurrection Sunday, Camille and Jia pass the mic to directly impacted people to engage in a freedom dreaming conversation on reparations. Freedom Dreaming is about imagining into existence a world where everyone has what they need to flourish. This episode will be co-hosted by Andrea James, JD, the Founder and Executive Director of The National Council For Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, and Richard Wallace, Founder and Executive Director of Equity and Transformation. They will be in conversation with Avalon Betts-Gaston, JD, Project Manager for IL Alliance for Reentry & Justice and Marvin Slaughter, Interim Director | The African American Leadership and Policy Institute. They engage in an authentic and honest conversation about what reparations means to them and how their vision of reparations would change their lives, the lives of their family and community?

    1h 5m

  2. 04/15/2022

    Abolish the Death Penalty

    --- RESOURCES You Shall Not Condemn, by Dr. Jenny McBride (not available for pre-order yet) --- CONNECT WITH OUR GUESTS Dr. Jenny McBride Facebook: (please send message beforehand) @jennymcbride jmcbride@mccormick.edu Ethan Facebook: please send message beforehand ethanslyf8@gmail.com --- ABOUT OUR CO-HOSTS Camille Hernandez www.camillehernandez.com Instagram, Twitter, TikTok: @hellocamilleh Jia Johnson www.jiajohnson.com Instagram & Twitter: @jiaajohnson Facebook: Jia Johnson -- This podcast is hosted in collaboration with McCormick Theological Seminary's Solidarity Building Initiative for Liberative Carceral Education.

    1h 6m

  3. 04/12/2022

    Rebuilding: The Role of Reparations as We Imagine into Existence Our Abolition Future.

    If resurrection is an ushering in of a new social order where violence, exploitation, and domination don’t have the last word and rather restoration, abundance and justice reign, what is the role of reparations as we rebuild and imagine into existence resurrection as abolition? We will be in conversation with Richard Wallace, Robin Rue Simmons, and Lisa Sharon Harper, we will define reparations, and in particular what does reparations mean to black and brown people and our collective liberation? How does the history of systemic racism and intergenerational wounds shape our vision of reparations? Drawing on the wisdom and experience of our guests, what are concrete ways they and their communities of belonging are making reparations concrete?   You will also hear from the voices of people directly impacted by the criminal punishment system.  They will share what reparations means to them, and how their vision would change their lives and the lives of their family? -- ABOUT OUR HOSTS Camille Hernandez www.camillehernandez.com Instagram, Twitter, TikTok: @hellocamilleh Jia Johnson www.jiajohnson.com Instagram & Twitter: @jiaajohnson Facebook: Jia Johnson

    1h 20m

  4. 04/07/2022

    Meditation 6.5: A New Song

    In this episode Camille read a poem by Dr. Martina McGowan entitled “A new song” from her book entitled I am the Rage. This poem is an honest reflection on what it takes to build an abolitionist reality in the midst of the everyday the harm we’re experiencing.

    11 min

  5. 04/05/2022

    Reducing Harm with Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart and Minister Willette Benford

    Building off of last week’s episode, with public health vs. public safety in mind, we will wrestle with the criminalization of mental health.  Research shows that nearly half the people in U.S. jails and more than a third of those in U.S. prisons have been diagnosed with a mental illness. In conversation with Rev. Naomi Washington Leaphart and Willette Benford, we will ask: How did American prisons and jails become one of the largest mental health providers in the country?  How can we begin to challenge and change the harmful, stimagmizing narratives that criminalize people with the experience of incarceration?  Drawing on the wisdom and experience of our guests, how can we engage in a more restorative response towards people impacted by the criminal punishment system?   How do these practices point us towards an abolition world? - - - - - ABOUT OUR GUESTS Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart is a Black-queer church girl, preacher, teacher, and activist. She develops spaces of spiritual candor, disruption, reflection, transformation, and action. Rev. Naomi is an adjunct professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University and is the founder of Salt | Yeast | Light. She also serves the city of Philadelphia as the Director for Faith-Based and Interfaith Affairs in the Mayor's Office. She shares life with her wife, their teenage daughter, and a hound dog girl and a black cat boy. Minister Willette Benford, is a mother, leader, social justice advocate, sought-after speaker and systems survivor. Minister Benford spent over two decades inside the Carceral system punished for a survival crime. Minister Benford benefited from a change in the law in 2016 which amended the Illinois Criminal Code and made domestic violence a mitigating factor in sentencing. This resulted in her being the first woman in the State of Illinois to benefit from this new law retroactively and given an immediate release in February of 2019 after serving over 24 years in the Carceral system. - - - - - SHOW NOTES "Be Nobody's Darling" by Alice Walker https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/be-nobody-s-darling/

    1h 1m

  6. 03/31/2022

    Mental Illness and Incarceration

    I’m this meditation episode Camille briefly discusses the connections between mental illness and the prison industrial complete. She reads a poem by Ra Avis from her book Sack Nasty: Prison Poetry by Ra Avis.

    9 min

  7. 03/29/2022

    Challenging Carceral Logics with Rev Erica N. Williams and Marlon J. Chamberlain

    In this episode we will be in conversation with Rev. Erica Williams and Marlon Chamberlain, addressing a series of questions to help us better understand the relationship between policing and incarceration and their relationship to public safety and public health. We will explore the differences between accountability and punishment and ask how an abolitionist vision confronts these carceral realities without causing more harm?”

    1 hr

  8. 03/24/2022

    Meditation 4.5: Mothers Behind Bars

    Jia is reading a poem of lament from Antoinette Briley.  Antoinette is a student in McCormick Theological Seminary’s program for seminary education in jail.  This program is one of 4 offered by the Solidarity Building Initiative for Liberative Carceral Education at McCormick, also known as SBI.  Antoinette wrote her lament during COVID-19 while in pretrial incarceration at the Cook County Jail in the summer of 2021. Antoinette’s poem is included in SBI’s annual publication entitled The Prayer Collective, which will be available soon at sbimccormick.org.

    8 min
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Abolition as Resurrection is a podcast miniseries co-produced and co-hosted by Camille Hernandez and Jia Johnson that is created for the Lenten and Easter season. This podcast seeks to understand abolition without co-opting or inserting ideologies that have not been consistent with the movement. Through interviewing abolitionists, theologians, and scholars our goal is to understand if there is a relationship between the theology of Resurrection and the Abolition movement to discover if we can find a path forward that we can implement in our everyday lives.

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    Camille Hernandez & Jia Johnson
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