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Thanks to Larissa McCartney for this beautiful drawing and including me in the 100 Days of Rad PNW Womxn.
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062 | Walidah Imarisha (@walidahimarisha) is Day 62 of #100DaysofRadPNWWomxn. Walidah Imarisha is a writer, educator, activist and spoken word artist in Portland, OR. She is the co-editor of “Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements,” and “Another World Is Possible.” Those publications and many of Walidah’s writings explore the idea of “visionary fiction,“ writing that illustrates and demonstrates the process of growth in human consciousness, predictive insights and the core of moral truth, often in apocalyptic themes. She is also the author of the poetry collection “Scars/Stars” and the 2017 Oregon Book Award winner for best non-fiction, “Angels with Dirty Faces: Dreaming Beyond Bars” which focuses on criminal justice issues. Walidah has taught writing and rhetoric across many prestigious programs and institutions and spent six years as the public scholar for the Oregon Humanities Conversation Project.
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“The reality is that folks of color in the United States, and globally, have been living disasters and apocalypses for centuries. It only gets categorized as a disaster when it begins to affect white people, white structures.” —Walida Imarisha, Ep 10 of Seismic Airwaves podcast.
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“Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in an exercise of speculative fiction. Organizers and activists struggle tirelessly to create and envision another world, or many other worlds, just as science fiction does.” —Walidah Imarisha and co-editor Adrienne Maree Brown on “visionary fiction.”
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h/t to @lololux for the nomination
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Looking forward to my IG Live tomorrow with Josh Rushing.
9/17 12 pm PST/3 pm EST
#repost @joshrushing:
Be sure to catch Thursday’s IG Live with Walidah Imarisha, who I met in Portland a few years ago while on assignment for @AJFaultLines.  

Walidah is a writer, historian, public scholar, poet, activist and professor committed to not only imagining but creating a better world without poverty, prisons and inequality. “What would it look like,” Imarisha asks, “to use the tens of billions of dollars spent on the prison system differently: for living wage jobs, for public education, for health care, for quality affordable housing, and more?”

We’ll talk about this vision and why she believes even nonfiction books must be read partially as fiction… as well as race, gender, Star Wars, the creative process and what she’s learned about life along the way.

Check out Walidah’s projects here: https://www.walidah.com/projects-1.

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#SpeakAboutWomen #WalidahImarisha #OctaviasBrood #AngelsWithDirtyFaces #VisionaryFiction #afrofuturism #walidahimarisha #speculativefiction #blackspeculativefiction #BlackLivesMatter #activist #socialactivist #socialactivism #socialactivismthroughart #socialactivismwriters #writersofinstagram #writerscommunity #writers #authorsofinstagram #authoractivists 

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#repost @joshrushing:
I’m thrilled to announce this week’s IG Live with Walidah Imarisha, who I met in Portland a few years ago while filming The Rise of Hate in Trump’s America for Fault Lines, https://bit.ly/32c0yKo. 

Walidah is a writer, historian, public scholar, poet, activist and professor committed to not only imagining but creating a better world without poverty, prisons and inequality. “What would it look like,” Imarisha asks, “to use the tens of billions of dollars spent on the prison system differently: for living wage jobs, for public education, for health care, for quality affordable housing, and more?” We’ll talk about this vision and why she believes even nonfiction books must be read partially as fiction… as well as race, gender, Star Wars, the creative process and what she’s learned about life along the way.

Check out Walidah’s projects here: https://www.walidah.com/projects-1.

Photo Credit: Pete Shaw

@joshrushing @ajfaultlines @aljazeeraenglish 

#SpeakAboutWomen #WalidahImarisha #OctaviasBrood #AngelsWithDirtyFaces #VisionaryFiction #afrofuturism #walidahimarisha #speculativefiction #blackspeculativefiction #BlackLivesMatter #activist #socialactivist #socialactivism #socialactivismthroughart #socialactivismwriters #writersofinstagram #writerscommunity #writers #authorsofinstagram #authoractivists 

#byoq #bringyourownquestions #iglive #igtv #joshrushingphotography
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