Stolen Children’s Month - The Visionary
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In this episode, we were joined by Ashley Albert for this episode, Stolen Children’s Month-The Visionary.
Ashley Albert is a visionary mother, abolitionist, and founder of Stolen Children’s Month. Through Stolen Children’s Month, Ashley seeks to reclaim what has been stolen from us: our children, our joy, our lineage, and our rights to raise our babies in peace. Born into loss and raised through systems designed to break her, Ashley’s story is one of survival, power, and reclamation.
This episode deeply explores Stolen Children’s Month; a call for the abolition of all systems that steal children and separate families, including the family policing, adoption, and foster industries; the ICE detention and deportation machine; and the prison-industrial complex. Throughout June, impacted leaders across the country are organizing vigils, love letter gatherings, storytelling projects, and healing circles to honor stolen children and build towards healing justice.
Ashley embodies liberation and freedom. She is encouraging all of us to become the deep medicine of decolonization. Stolen Children’s Month is a rediscovery, a mourning, a dreaming, a commitment and an action. We can find our way to cultivate the change within ourselves and within our collective.