
Cherise Morris
@_cherisemorris_
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Detroit, MI
Joined January 2015
As Chair of this prize, I couldn't be more delighted that we chose @_cherisemorris_ with her gem of a manuscript, the cosmic matter of black lives! Look out for it when @CassavaRepublic publishes it!
🏆MEET THE WINNERS!🏆 🌟 Huge congratulations to @_cherisemorris_, winner of the inaugural Global Black Women’s Non-fiction Manuscript Prize for her stunning manuscript, the cosmic matter of Black lives!
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🏆MEET THE WINNERS!🏆 🌟 Huge congratulations to @_cherisemorris_, winner of the inaugural Global Black Women’s Non-fiction Manuscript Prize for her stunning manuscript, the cosmic matter of Black lives!
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“If those who came before us could inhabit uninhabitable territory, making homes in a no man's land, then we, by way and by will, can survive anything.“— @_cherisemorris_
https://t.co/gLH2qDhsR8
scalawagmagazine.org
On calamity, rebirth, and Blackness in the face of bad weather, climate crisis, and the chaos of the natural world.
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@scalawagmag The third piece in the series features a deeply personal essay from @_cherisemorris_ who weaves together intergenerational memory of her family’s relationship with extreme weather in the south with ruminations on marronage in the Great Dismal swamp https://t.co/HdsaWOBzML
scalawagmagazine.org
On calamity, rebirth, and Blackness in the face of bad weather, climate crisis, and the chaos of the natural world.
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Today on This is Hell!, @_cherisemorris_ discussed her @truthout article, "To Build an Abolitionist Future, We Must Look to Indigenous Pasts." If you like, support completely listener supported This is Hell! by subscribing at https://t.co/GntfAbveEg
https://t.co/0JPMYu7W2b
thisishell.com
To Build an Abolitionist Future
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This is Hell! Monday: @_cherisemorris_ on the @truthout article, "To Build an Abolitionist Future, We Must Look to Indigenous Pasts." Live Monday at 10AM CDT and podcast shortly after at https://t.co/SM6dzmzDIG
https://t.co/3guQ4HPUv5
truthout.org
Worlds without police and without prisons have already existed, predating colonization and slavery.
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Indigenous peoples have lived without police and prisons for centuries. Their examples show that it is possible to create safe and just societies without these institutions. https://t.co/Gj6QbBmAUD
truthout.org
Worlds without police and without prisons have already existed, predating colonization and slavery.
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Woke up this morning to read that Doug Blackmon, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning book “slavery by another name”—the documentary i teach in crt, criminal procedure, con law—is advising the mayor on cop city and refusing to sign a ballot petition bringing it to a vote.
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REMINDER. Do not argue or engage w/ these folks bcuz they are now getting $$ for your outrage & engagement.
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We have come to know water as the latest casualty of late capitalism’s doctrine of scarcity. @_cherisemorris_ | @truthout
https://t.co/VWaD7zXhYt
znetwork.org
The sacred folklores of the Yoruba tradition tell the story of the time water left Earth. In the narrative, several deities from the heavenly realm come
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I been seven steps past woke since I was 19 years old. Bitch, I’m not woke, I’m in a deeply meditative state of lucid dreaming making direct contact with the ancestral realm to transmute energy in the material. Lol!
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It’s hilarious because literally no one I know who actually has radical, revolutionary politics has described them as “woke” since like 2015.
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Every time Elon Musk and his cadre of Twitter minions tweet about the dangers of the “woke” culture, I just imagine them talking to a giant blown up version of Deray’s blue vest.
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"In this lifetime alone, how many times have you been reborn? We are the change that is gonna come. We are magic in motion. We are revolution alive. Affirm that", @_cherisemorris_ at #AMC2022 Closing Ceremony🌻🦋
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"Our revolution began with your first breath. Our revolution happens each and every time we find love in a system built on hatred", @_cherisemorris_ at #AMC2022 Closing Ceremony🌻🦋
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Subject Matters Ep. 3 is here! This week, artists @_cherisemorris_ and Holly Bass discuss the restorative, transformative journey of creating contemporary work that draws from the past and reaches all generations with host, @ImaniMixon Listen here:
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MQR Online and Lillian Pearce ask Michigan writers to discuss Why We Write, including Cherise Morris. https://t.co/Z4j2KfuS8r
#MQR60 #interview @_cherisemorris_ @LillianHPearce
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Visions of the Evolution’s first film, Restoration premieres tomorrow. Rsvp for the online event here: https://t.co/4fffJNpLo3
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