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The upEND Podcast
by upEND Movement
We can build a society where children and families are strengthened and supported, not surveilled and separated. The upEND Podcast illustrates that the “child welfare” system is beyond reform and needs to be abolished. The only solution to ending the harm of what we name the family policing system is a fundamental reimagining of the way society cares for children and families.
Episodes
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What About Survivors of Domestic Violence? (with Ashley Albert)
How can we support survivors of domestic violence and their children without the child welfare system? State intervention often forces survivors into impossible choices: remain in a harmful situation to keep their children or engage with a legal system that might use their trauma as evidence of…
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What About Parents Who Use Drugs? (with Dinah Ortiz)
“Parents who use drugs, we're at the bottom of the totem pole.” We explore what real safety looks like for families when a parent uses substances. Stigma, shame, and anti-Blackness shape the way families are treated by the family policing system, but community centered care can save lives and...
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What About Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse? (with Roxanna Asgarian)
If we abolish the family policing system, how do we respond to child sexual abuse? Abolition helps us create a world where all children are safe and supported by their communities. We’re addressing the problem, not just sweeping it under the rug. We speak with award-winning journalist and author...
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What About Disabled Parents? (with Dr. Robyn Powell)
The family policing system considers parents with mental health issues and other disabilities to be an inherent threat to their children. We reject that premise. Because of ableism, the legacy of eugenics, and the violence of poverty, disabled parents face a high risk of separation by the family...
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Reclaiming Safety (with Angela Burton)
Welcome to Season 3 of The upEND Podcast where we’ll be answering all of your burning questions about family policing abolition! If we get rid of the child welfare system, what will happen when children are harmed? Are abolitionists saying that child abuse is okay? Reclaiming Safety is upEND’s…
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Why We Need Abortion Doulas (with Ash Williams)
Welcome to the Season 2 Finale! Reproductive justice has always been the foundation of upEND’s work to abolish the family policing system. Both movements focus on bodily autonomy and our human right to keep ourselves and our children safe from oppressive systems. That’s why we wanted to speak…
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Adult Preschool (with Nalo Zidan)
The foster system has more than double the representation of LGBTQ youth than the general population. And LGBTQ youth of color have significantly greater odds of being in the foster system compared to white LGBTQ youth. When marginalized identities intersect across race, gender, and sexuality, we...
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Cops in Cardigans (with Erica Meiners)
Schools have become sites of policing and surveillance that mirror the criminal legal system. To address this, we need to understand what our guest calls the “school-to-prison nexus,” the intersecting web of racist, carceral systems that criminalize our youth. We discuss the history of organizing...
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Unbuild Walls (with Silky Shah)
The trauma of state-sanctioned family separations is shared by victims of immigrant detention and the family policing system (also known as the child welfare system). Additionally, immigrant detentions are so intertwined with the prison industrial complex that they are nearly the same....
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Warrior Women (with Marcella Gilbert)
Family separations have been used as a colonization and genocidal tactic since before the founding of America and these practices continue today. Native children are currently removed from their homes at 2–3 times the rate of white children. They are often taken away from relatives and their...
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In Solidarity - upEND Convening Live Recording
Welcome to the upEND 2024 Convening! This episode was recorded live in Houston, TX on October 10, 2024. Our liberation movements are intertwined. What are our strengths and opportunities in working together to achieve our collective goals? Guest host Corey Best moderates a conversation with...
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The Real Cost of Prisons (with Bianca Tylek)
The call to end modern-day slavery and the prison industrial complex is gaining momentum because of organizers committed to realize the dream of abolition. At upEND, we understand that the demand to end incarceration is deeply linked to the movement to end family policing. Nearly half of the…
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Becoming Internationalists (with Nadia Ben-Youssef and Tarek Ismail)
In the first episode of Season 2, we discuss how the movement to abolish family policing is intrinsically linked to struggles for freedom in Palestine and Sudan. Solidarity unites us and makes our movements stronger. Harm is exported and imported around the world. Tactics of family separation in...
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Season 2 Trailer
In the first season of the upEND Podcast, we explored the past and present of the family policing system, commonly misidentified as the child welfare system. Now, we’re widening our scope. How does family policing intersect with reproductive justice and Black maternal health? Are borders and...
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Season One Finale (with Maya Pendleton and Alan Dettlaff)
The upEND team recaps season one and shares their visions for a future without family policing. We break down recurring myths about “child welfare,” discuss the abolitionist communities growing from spaces such as book clubs, and reflect on topics like the Family First Prevention Services Act...
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Playground Experiments (with Maya Schenwar)
After looking closely at how the family policing system operates, we zoom out to discuss how family policing is an extension of other carceral systems and how abolition is the solution. We just need to stretch our imagination. About Our Guest: Maya Schenwar is the director of the Truthout Center...
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Reforms Don’t Work (with Dylan Rodríguez and Maya Pendleton)
Why keep advocating for solutions that don’t work? In this episode, we'll discuss reforms in the family policing system and how these reforms don't actually help to end the harms perpetuated against Black children, families, and communities. We'll also be discussing the differences between...
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Family Defenders (with Joyce McMillan and Shanta Trivedi)
The trauma of family separations and foster care are well documented, so why is this harm ignored? In episode 5, we discuss the harms of family separation and the outcomes of family policing involvement for children and parents. Joyce also shares more about her advocacy for Family Miranda Rights...
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Help is NOT on the Way (with Victoria Copeland and Brianna Harvey)
“Families I work with tell me it’s like being on pins and needles every day of their life. It really impacts their mental health, their physical well-being, as well as their housing and job prospects. These families can’t mess up at all. It’s not a way to live.” In previous episodes of the…
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Repeal CAPTA (with Richard Wexler, Mical Raz, and Angela Burton)
How did the family policing system become what it is today? We’ll take a look at some of the key policies and ideas from the early 1900s through 1970s that are still in place today including the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) and other white supremacist ideas that emerged at the...
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Save the Children! (with Dorothy Roberts and Geoff Ward)
It is commonly believed that the first child welfare system was created in 1874 in response to the abuse of a girl named Mary Ellen Wilson, but there’s actually more to that story. In the second episode of Season 1, we investigate the early history of the child welfare system from the time of...
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The Story Starts Here (with Ndjuoh MehChu and Vanessa M. Holden)
Family separation was a key issue used to advance the movement to end slavery in the United States, and the family policing system builds upon slavery’s foundation, attacking the humanity of families seen as undesirable. In the first episode of Season 1, we explore the notion of abolition then…
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An Introduction to Family Policing Abolition (with Alan Dettlaff)
So, what is family policing abolition? Cohosts Josie Pickens and Jaison Oliver introduce The upEND Podcast and give an overview of what listeners can expect in the first season of the upEND podcast which will release monthly episodes starting in September 2023. Episode guest Alan Dettlaff is a...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We can build a society where children and families are strengthened and supported, not surveilled and separated. The upEND Podcast illustrates that the “child welfare” system is beyond reform and needs to be abolished. The only solution to ending the harm of what we name the family policing system is a fundamental reimagining of the way society cares for children and families.
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