Unwanted Persons
Kaia SandThere’s a hopeful story to tell about alternatives to police, and Kaia Sand sends dispatches to keep you posted. Read it here first while Sand writes a book, as well as columns and essays for Nation, Orion, and, from 2017-2024, Street Roots.
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On knitting, gender, class & mental illness
Helsinki — I’d make my way to a knit cafe, order a strawberry soda, settle into a wicker chair, and knit as I listen to an audiobook — usually, Nobody’s Normal by Roy Richard Grinker, a book on the history of mental illness and stigma. I...
This era of cruelty must be countered by care
Graffiti on an Old Town wall, Portland, Ore (photo by Kaia Sand)
I looked out at the ships as they navigated the night. Gathered around a bonfire, my family burned notes on which we wrote what we wanted to leave behind. This is our New Yea...
A note of tenderness
Last week I visited classes of engaged students at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, renewed by the commitment to critical thinking
I’ve been quiet for the last handful of weeks in terms of writing Unwanted Persons columns. The root of why...
Three joyful instances of Portland resistance
Portland city councilor Angelita Morillo appeared on CNN
Faced with authoritarian uses of police and propaganda, we are — as the great Stereolab sang — “left to all the creativity we must find.”
People are certainly finding it. I’ll lif...
Tracking the Jackboot
Portland, Ore. — The president’s authoritarian ambition has jackbooted into my hometown.
Lies to sow fear and police to impose will — these are two tenets of authoritarianism I’m zeroing in on through on-the-ground knowledge of Portland, a...
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Kaia Sand writes https://open.substack.com/pub/unwantedpersons on alternatives to the police, first responders that are care-focused, not crime-focused
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