Turn Up For Freedom: Notes for All the Tough Girls* Awakening to Their Collective Power

E Morales-Williams

Turn Up For Freedom: Notes for All the Tough Girls* Awakening to Their Collective Power
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Common Notions
Country
United Kingdom
Published
9 November 2023
Pages
192
ISBN
9781942173830

Turn Up For Freedom: Notes for All the Tough Girls* Awakening to Their Collective Power

E Morales-Williams

A powerful guidebook for healing and resistance for young girls and gender-expansive youth of color on how to unite, heal, protect, and lead their communities.

Turn Up For Freedom helps youth leaders hone their skills to build personal, emotional, and collective freedom. It centers youth leadership through principled positions, such as being a healer, a protector, a scholar-activist, a community organizer, and being radically joyful, in order to build personal emotional and collective freedom. Through memoir, story telling, and political education, E Morales-Williams grounds these principles in the material experiences of working-class youth and reflects on the possibilities and challenges in practicing them as a collective in under-resourced communities.

These were the principles of leadership and lessons learned from a Black and Brown girls and gender expansive youth-collective called TUFF Girls (Turning Up for Freedom), based in North Philadelphia. Morales-Williams carefully guides young readers through the challenging issues that confront their lives, helping to identify the traumatic impact that structural violence has on Black and Brown communities, restoring traditions of healing and collective care, and recentering leadership in community as an abolitionist and decolonizing practice. Turn Up For Freedom calls on young people to unite, heal, protect, and lead.

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