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“What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you…
Olayemi Olurin
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January 2023

I ended the essay Abolition, Tory Lanez & Meg thee Stallion: Whenever a Black woman is the victim of abuse at the hands of a man, no matter what the…
Olayemi Olurin
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December 2022

I am a Black woman, a defense attorney, and an abolitionist. Those things don’t conflict, but during the trial against Tory Lanez, as someone who was…
Olayemi Olurin
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America practices a politic of distraction by condemning parts so that it can preserve the whole. Political fetch if you will. Focus your ire on police…
Olayemi Olurin
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October 2022

There is nothing new, revolutionary, legitimate, or nuanced about racism, white supremacy, white nationalism, and everything in between. The same is…
Olayemi Olurin
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September 2022

A society doesn’t end up with a massive prison industrial complex if that society isn’t on some level, invested in the punitive beliefs that uphold it…
Olayemi Olurin
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August 2022

If you are fighting against systemic racism in white America, you must always remember that “there are no new pains.” Otherwise, you’ll be discouraged…
Olayemi Olurin
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July 2022

Every Black person navigating white America knows there’s always the opportunity to betray the Black community and your own principles in exchange for…
Olayemi Olurin
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June 2022

If you’re in the business of trying (or just hoping) to change the world around you, you undoubtedly find yourself wondering how. How do we create…
Olayemi Olurin
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May 2022

Love & Abolition Listen now (6 min) | It’s popular to hide and hide from our feelings, and anything we think can be perceived as weakness or vulnerability. We attempt to…
Olayemi Olurin
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April 2022

When a Black person is killed by police, America races to depict both them and any community response to that murder as violent. The victims are…
Olayemi Olurin
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