A message from ACT Staff and Board. ...

We are introducing EZE Access A Wellness Box.

This subscription box is intended to make reproductive health items more accessible to the communities we work with.
Fill out the form (link found below) and choose what you need from condoms, dental dams, the emergency contraceptive pill, tampons, and pads, shipped in discrete packaging and delivered straight to your door.

This service is FREE for everyone in Tulare County. Supplies are limited and QT BIPoC identifying youth will be prioritized.

The intake form will close December 10th, 2020 for our winter box.

DM us if you have any questions!

Link: bit.ly/ezeaccess

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Image description:
1st image: Subscription Box Logo, dark green background with a white lined square centered, inside written white font: EZE Access, underneath white square is written: a wellness box.

Image 2: dark green background with white and black scribbles and dots, with a lower left centered white square, written with a black font is: “This subscription box is intended to make reproductive health items more accessible to the communities we work with.
Fill out the form (link in description) and choose what you need from condoms, dental dams, the emergency contraceptive pill, tampons, and pads, shipped in discrete packaging and delivered straight to your door.

FREE for everyone in Tulare County. Supplies are limited and QT BIPoC identifying youth will be prioritized.” ...

We are taking time to acknowledge, reflect, and rest this week. We encourage folks to take time this week to research, learn, and understand the atrocities colonization has brought onto indigenous people, and look up the land we reside on. Today and always we honor Indiginous people, their land, and ensure we work towards a collective liberation.

Image #2: @wiisaakodewinini
Image #3: @yokutsland ...

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Colonizers attempted to occupy the land of the Wampanoag, Massachuseuk, Nauset +more for decades before the Mayflower arrived. ▪️
In 1606, Champlain and crew pulled up and erected a cross. Natives destroyed it, resisted them by attacking in defense of their land and sent the French packing.
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In 1614, John Smith, yeah THAT one, wrote home that the Natives here were in good health and not giving up their land without a fight . He suggested they bring an army if they planned to colonize them.
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The Great Dying tore through northern territories, spreading south via trade routes, “[the Abenaki] are astonished and often complain that since the French mingle and carry on trade with them they are dying fast, and the population is thinning out.” - French Jesuit missionary, 1616
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When Natives fell ill to a disease brought by colonizers, it was written about as a window of opportunity by colonizers. What is billed as a ‘pilgrimage’ of religious freedom was truly the underhanded planned theft of land Europeans had been seeking for decades. Gorges failed colonizing so-called Maine decades before, but unfortunately this occupation lasted longer.
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Bringing back this piece from last year because it’s on my mind heavy. ...

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Slides 5 & 6 of a drawing series exploring abolition. "We are weaving new ways of relating with each other, learning to hold conflict with grace, and naming that all of us are worthy of participating in repair."
I've been holding these drawings in my imagination for several months now but have been slow to work on them and unsure of what exactly I would write about them. In some parts of me these concepts feel so simple, & in other ways feel so deep and hard and complex. Harm/ conflict take place in such a wide breadth of ways across deeply differing power dynamics. Accountability requires those who perpetuate harm to admit the harm and then choose to engage in a healing process. Unfortunately, so many people still refuse to come to that place. And even those who have chosen to engage in an accountability process sometimes still engage in harm. There are so many just and important questions that come out of these realities and I believe they help move us forward.
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As I understand it, at the heart of abolition is the naming that none of us are disposable. And through the work of Restorative and Transformative Justice is an opportunity to hold the mess of such complexity, the mess of process, the mess of each other in relationships. To name that we are all HUMAN. We all harm others & we all receive harm in some way throughout our lifetime, but that we are all also capable of transformation, understanding, and repair. Prison and policing denies us of this grace. Abolition creates a world that holds space for our humanity.
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These images are downloadable on my "Art for Community" page on my website.
(It feels important for me to say here that I am young in my life as an abolitionist & still have so much to learn. I am enjoying creating these drawings as a way to ground myself more deeply in some of these concepts and it seems like others have been feeling the same. I don't think I captured all that these drawings embody with this caption or even layed it all out correctly. I definitely feel more confident in the drawings than I do with the writing. I am not a writer & I am not a teacher in this area. ...

The holidays are coming up and we are doing a donation drive for the 10 young families we work with! We would like to gift them all types of goodies and we need your help! We have started the donation drive this week and drop-offs will be at our ACT office. Check the post for specific drop-off times and dates, along with the list of wanted items. Hit us up if you have questions or would like to support in any way. Thank you so much we appreciate all your support!
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#tularecounty #youngparents #communitycare #donationdrive ...