Lessons from the Garden: We Don't Have to Learn Through Suffering feat. Anya Tanyavutti

Beyond Prisons

For this episode Kim sat down with long-time educator and organizer, Anya Tanyavutti for a conversation about her contribution titled “Shelter and Shower Toward Abolition: A Reflection on Collective Care, Reproductive Justice, and Educational Justice.”

Anya Tanyavutti has 25 years of experience working in the fields of education and nonprofit leadership. She earned her Bachelor's in Elementary Education and Masters in Socio-Cultural Studies and Educational Thought, from Western Michigan University. Anya is a trained birthworker and a 3 time alum of the Jade T. Perry Cecilia Weston Spiritual Academy.

Her work history has included executive leadership of a birth justice organization, a Community Schools department, and youth development program administration, teaching, and DEIB consultation. Ms. Tanyavutti is currently the Executive Director of Changing Worlds, an Arts nonprofit serving CPS.

Lastly, Ms.Tanyavutti is the survivor of a tragic postpartum stroke, predicted only by her race. She is the proud mother of three amazing children who are the realization of their ancestor's dreams and work everyday to build a more decolonized world in big and small ways for and with the collective.

This is the fourth installment of our new series, Lessons From The Garden, where Kim will be interviewing contributors to the anthology that she co-edited with Maya Schenwar titled We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition. You can order this volume now from Haymarket or wherever you buy books.

Episode Resources & Notes

Order We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition, Edited by Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson

IN STORES NOV. 19, 2024!

Abolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, “What if abolition is something that grows?” As we struggle to build a liberatory, caring, loving, abundant future, we have much to learn from the work of birthing, raising, caring for, and loving future generations.

In We Grow the World Together, abolitionists and organizers Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson bring together a remarkable collection of voices revealing the complex tapestry of ways people are living abolition in their daily lives through parenting and caregiving. Ranging from personal narratives to policy-focused analysis to activist chronicles, these writers highlight how abolition is essential to any kind of parenting justice.

HELP SEND THIS BOOK INSIDE: Contribute toward sending copies of We Grow the World Together to folks in prisons and jails by donating at https://haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/we-grow-the-world-together

Links

You can reach out to Anya through her website: Tandem Works

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