Jamara Wakefield

Jamara Wakefield

Jamara Wakefield is a Black queer writer and creative who writes for publication, stage, and screen. They are interested in decolonizing everything colonialism has touched.

3 posts
Pro-fracking movements have a deadly impact on BIPOC communities
Climate & Environment

Pro-fracking movements have a deadly impact on BIPOC communities

In the last two weeks, 12 climate activists were arrested after shutting down the North Brooklyn pipeline site by chaining their bodies to the construction. The in-progress National Grid-owned pipeline would carry fracked gas through Black and brown neighborhoods in Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Williamsburg. This project is ongoing despite the

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4 Min
By: Jamara Wakefield
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Economy & Workers' Rights

How organizers are working to protect marginalized female food vendors

Recently in New York City, two women selling churros were arrested and faced fines for vending in a transit station. The videos of their violent arrests went viral, shining a light on the ways that poverty, city bureaucracy, and law enforcement combine to make public spaces unsafe for Black and

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5 Min
By: Jamara Wakefield
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Education

Want to talk reparations? Let’s start with decolonizing higher education

by Jamara Wakefield There is a debt that lingers among us. At best, we try to remedy this debt in the name of democracy with Bandaids of social justice and radical action. Yet, without a profound acknowledgment of the crimes against humanity that have taken place in the United States

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9 Min
By: Jamara Wakefield

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