Hi, hello, happy Friday.
I hope your week has been smooth and filled with some sort of peace. I am finding it hard to believe we are halfway through June and therefore halfway through 2022 already. Time has felt strange the last few years, and yet— it goes on. I’m leaning into less control and just letting it by pass by.
ICYMI, we have a new summer playlist out, featuring artists from across the American South.
Scalawag has a new series investigating media portrayals of cops and abolition justice in pop culture. Very cool.
Cops are everywhere in pop culture. Woody from Toy Story: a whole sheriff. Winston of New Girl: an awful rookie cop.
So we're launching pop justice: a series tackling how media from TV to TikTok upholds copaganda and stalls conversations on abolition.
scalawagmagazine.org/2022/06/pop-cu…
On that note, this looks like a very cool project: