Movement Memos Creators & Guests

Abolitionist writer/organizer. Hosts Movement Memos podPatreon: https://t.co/gSBQVjUMBP More: https://t.co/mS8uBZRaHRMastodon: https://t.co/0FE8On2LdZ

Dean Spade is a lawyer, writer, and associate professor of law.

Kim Kelly is a freelance writer, journalist, and labor advocate.

Mariame Kaba is an activist and organizer.

Sarah Kendzior is a journalist and author. She has written for Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Marie Claire, The Boston Globe, and other outlets.

Shane Burley is a writer, filmmaker, and union organizer based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse (AK Press, 2021) and Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017), and editor of the anthology ¡No pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis (IAS/AK Press, 2022). His work has appeared in places such as NBC News, Jacobin, Al Jazeera, The Baffler, The Daily Beast, Truthout, In These Times and Protean.

Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a prison scholar and abolitionist activist. She is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at The City University of New York.Gilmore has been credited with inventing carceral geography, the “study of the interrelationships across space, institutions and political economy that shape and define modern incarceration”. She received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Geographers.Gilmore's first book, "Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California," was published in 2007.Gilmore received her B.A. in Drama from Yale University and her Ph.D. in Economic Geography and Social Theory from Rutgers University.

Beatrice Adler-Bolton is a blind/low vision and chronically ill artist and author. She is the co-host of the Death Panel podcast and studies radical patient groups and the capitalist political economy of health as an independent researcher. Her first book, Health Communism co-authored with Artie Vierkant, was published by Verso Books in the US and UK in October 2022.