Transformation: Healing Ourselves, Culture and Society with Gigi Khanyezi, Min. Atty Michelle Day, and Rev. Nikia Smith Roberts, Ph.D

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Abolition as Resurrection

Camille Hernandez & Jia Johnson

16 episodes

3 days ago

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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Transformation: Healing Ourselves, Culture and Society with Gigi Khanyezi, Min. Atty Michelle Day, and Rev. Nikia Smith Roberts, Ph.D

Abolition as Resurrection

1 hour 18 minutes 23 seconds

3 years ago

Transformation: Healing Ourselves, Culture and Society with Gigi Khanyezi, Min. Atty Michelle Day, and Rev. Nikia Smith Roberts, Ph.D

In our Christian tradition sanctification is defined as the ongoing works of salvation are external and internal transformation. This episode explores the individual, interpersonal, institutional and cultural transformations that need to take place to realize an abolition world. In conversation with Gigi Khanyezi and Rev. Dr. Nikia Smith Roberts, we will wrestle with the following questions: What is carceral logic? What is its relationship to the Christian tradition, in particular around atonement theory. How have we been socialized by it, and how does it show up in our everyday lives within the institutions (schools, workplaces, prisons, churches) we inhabit? How do we begin to replace our reliance on carceral logics with more humanizing and restorative ways of being in a flourishing relationship with ourselves, others and institutions/systems? Specifically how does practicing abolition in our daily lives dismantle carceral logics?

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RESOURCES

Stand Your Ground, Dr. Kelly Brown Douglass

Prophetic Imagination, Willy J Jenkins (?)

Push Out, Monique Morris

Talking About Cancel Culture, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson

Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater

My Grandmother’s Hands, Resma Menaken

Thriving in the Wake of Trauma, Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis

Homecoming, Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis

Penitence, Plantation and the Penitentiary: A Liberation Theology for Lockdown America, Rev. Nikia Smith Robert, Ph.D
https://www.academia.edu/38648000/Penitence_Plantation_and_the_Penitentiary_A_Liberation_Theology_for_Lockdown_America

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STAY CONNECTED

Michelle
Nehemiah Rising
National Association of Community and Restorative Justice
www.nacrj.org

Dr. Nikia
www.nikiasrobert.com
Twitter & IG @drnikiasrobert
Google: Abolitionist Sanctuary

Gigi
www.Gigionline.org
IG: @jesusandjustice
Facebook: gigikhanyezi
email: reachout@gigionline.org

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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.