WRITINGS & REFLECTIONS

AVP staff, collaborators, and our communities often write and reflect on violence and its aftermath, as well as individual and collective journeys of healing, resilience, memory, joy, meaning making, and reclamation. We also write and reflect on the intersections of liberatory memory work, abolition, and transformative justice.

Rewriting the State-Sanctioned Narrative: How Hope and Grief are Essential to the Coronavirus Story

By Murphy Anne Carter, Community Programs Director

A Year of Sheltering Justice

By Murphy Anne Carter, Community Programs Director

Notes on Mourning and Memory in a Moment of Collective Grief

By Jane Field, former AVP Staff Member 

Oral History as Rendezvous: Memory and Story in the Aftermath of State Violence

By Celeste Henery, former AVP Board Member

Age with Grace: Knowing When to Let Go of Outdated Legislation

By Faylita Hicks, AVP Writer in Residence 2020-2022

The Lineage and Langauge of a Liberation

By Faylita Hicks, AVP Writer in Residence 2020-2022

Through the Night: Innocence as a Trope, Legal Definition, and Dream

By Faylita Hicks, AVP Writer in Residence 2020-2022

True Freedom Beckons

By Walter C. Long, AVP Founder and Board Member

Nourishing My Nightmares

By Jorge Antonio Renaud, AVP Writer in Residence 2020-2022

Prison Abolution in the Time of Covid

By Jorge Antonio Renaud, AVP Writer in Residence 2020-2022

Documenting State Violence: (Symbolic) Annihilation & Archives of Survival

By Gabriel Solis, AVP Executive Director

Fragile Evidence: Bearing Witness to Stories About the Death Penalty in Texas

By Gabriel Solis, AVP Executive Director

The Pain Belongs to Us

By Gabriel Solis, AVP Executive Director

The Real Meaning of Texas Ranger Monuments

By Gabriel Solis, AVP Executive Director

Resisting the Allure of Innocence

By Gabriel Solis, AVP Executive Director

What are Archives of Survival?

By Gabriel Solis, AVP Executive Director

Granny Anne

By Jennifer Toon, AVP Community Advocacy Manager

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