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S3E4 What About Parents Who Use Drugs? (with Dinah Ortiz)
“Parents who use drugs, we're at the bottom of the totem pole.”We explore what real safety looks like for families when a parent uses substances. Stigma, shame, and anti-Blackness shape the way…
S3E3 What About Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse? (with Roxanna Asgarian)
If we abolish the family policing system, how do we respond to child sexual abuse? Abolition helps us create a world where all children are safe and supported by their communities. We’re addressing…
S3E2 What About Disabled Parents? (with Dr. Robyn Powell)
The family policing system considers parents with mental health issues and other disabilities to be an inherent threat to their children. We reject that premise. Because of ableism, the legacy of…
S3E1 Reclaiming Safety (with Angela Burton)
Welcome to Season 3 of The upEND Podcast where we’ll be answering all of your burning questions about family policing abolition!If we get rid of the child welfare system, what will happen when…
S2E7 Why We Need Abortion Doulas (with Ash Williams)
Welcome to the Season 2 Finale! Reproductive justice has always been the foundation of upEND’s work to abolish the family policing system. Both movements focus on bodily autonomy and our human right…
Adult Preschool (with Nalo Zidan)
The foster system has more than double the representation of LGBTQ youth than the general population. And LGBTQ youth of color have significantly greater odds of being in the foster system compared…
S2E5 Cops in Cardigans (with Erica Meiners)
Schools have become sites of policing and surveillance that mirror the criminal legal system. To address this, we need to understand what our guest calls the “school-to-prison nexus,” the…
S2E4 Unbuild Walls (with Silky Shah)
The trauma of state-sanctioned family separations is shared by victims of immigrant detention and the family policing system (also known as the child welfare system). Additionally, immigrant…
S2E3 Warrior Women (with Marcella Gilbert)
Family separations have been used as a colonization and genocidal tactic since before the founding of America and these practices continue today. Native children are currently removed from their…
S2 In Solidarity - upEND Convening Live Recording
Welcome to the upEND 2024 Convening! This episode was recorded live in Houston, TX on October 10, 2024. Our liberation movements are intertwined. What are our strengths and opportunities in working…
S2E2 The Real Cost of Prisons (with Bianca Tylek)
The call to end modern-day slavery and the prison industrial complex is gaining momentum because of organizers committed to realize the dream of abolition. At upEND, we understand that the demand to…
S2E1 Becoming Internationalists (with Nadia Ben-Youssef and Tarek Ismail)
In the first episode of Season 2, we discuss how the movement to abolish family policing is intrinsically linked to struggles for freedom in Palestine and Sudan. Solidarity unites us and makes our…
S2 Season 2 Trailer
In the first season of the upEND Podcast, we explored the past and present of the family policing system, commonly misidentified as the child welfare system. Now, we’re widening our scope. How…
S1E8 Season One Finale (with Maya Pendleton and Alan Dettlaff)
The upEND team recaps season one and shares their visions for a future without family policing. We break down recurring myths about “child welfare,” discuss the abolitionist communities growing…
S1E7 Playground Experiments (with Maya Schenwar)
After looking closely at how the family policing system operates, we zoom out to discuss how family policing is an extension of other carceral systems and how abolition is the solution. We just need…
S1E6 Reforms Don’t Work (with Dylan Rodríguez and Maya Pendleton)
Why keep advocating for solutions that don’t work? In this episode, we'll discuss reforms in the family policing system and how these reforms don't actually help to end the harms perpetuated against…
S1E5 Family Defenders (with Joyce McMillan and Shanta Trivedi)
The trauma of family separations and foster care are well documented, so why is this harm ignored? In episode 5, we discuss the harms of family separation and the outcomes of family policing…
S1E4 Help is NOT on the Way (with Victoria Copeland and Brianna Harvey)
“Families I work with tell me it’s like being on pins and needles every day of their life. It really impacts their mental health, their physical well-being, as well as their housing and job…
S1E3 Repeal CAPTA (with Richard Wexler, Mical Raz, and Angela Burton)
How did the family policing system become what it is today? We’ll take a look at some of the key policies and ideas from the early 1900s through 1970s that are still in place today including the…
S1E2 Save the Children! (with Dorothy Roberts and Geoff Ward)
It is commonly believed that the first child welfare system was created in 1874 in response to the abuse of a girl named Mary Ellen Wilson, but there’s actually more to that story. In the second…
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The upEND Podcast has published 22 episodes since June 2023, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.
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