Supreme Court Upholds ICWA
The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 was a response to nationwide removal policies which saw more than 1/3 of native children systematically taken from their homes and stripped of their...
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2023 Convening Schedule
The How We endUP Convening is a gathering of advocates, activists, researchers, policymakers, and leaders from different communities, agencies, and efforts coming together to explore how we can...
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Keynote Conversation with Josie Duffy Rice & Alan Dettlaff
Join the upEND Movement on October 17, 2023 for our fourth annual convening of organizers, activists, scholars, and community leaders who are committed to dismantling the family policing system. Josie...
View ArticleupEND Endorses Report to United Nations Human Rights Committee
upEND endorses a report submitted to the Human Rights Committee for its upcoming review of the U.S. under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, urging them to hold the U.S....
View ArticleupEND Demands Ceasefire and a Free Palestine
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” – James Baldwin...
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2023 Convening Recap
We hope you’re continuing to engage with how you can live abolition now in your own communities. There is a place for all of us to resist family policing and carcerality, through practice, policy, and...
View ArticleDeadline Extended for Afrofuturist Art Submissions
The deadline for art, poetry, and short fiction submissions has been extended to January 31, 2024. Because we have made many new friends and co-strugglers in the past few months, we have decided to...
View ArticleCalifornia Supreme Court Strikes “Tender Years Doctrine”
A 17-month-old boy was forcibly separated from his father following a single drug test indicating the use of cocaine when the child was not in his father’s care. The state of California claimed there...
View ArticleUpending The Racialized Family Ideal
by Katie Gibson What is one of the most heavily regulated economic institutions in contemporary America? Arguably, the family. It may seem counter-intuitive to refer to the family as an economic...
View ArticleFamily Policing Doesn’t Prevent Child Abuse, Abolition Can
by Maya Pendleton and Alan Dettlaff Given that April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, it is important to think about how the child welfare system, or more accurately the family policing...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: Foster Care Cannot Provide True Safety for Children
As part of the growing movement to end the separation of children from their families, we were disappointed to read the article “What Happens When Abusive Parents Keep their Children” in the opinion...
View ArticlePrize Winners Named for “Dream, Create, Liberate” Afrofuturist Art Publication
We are thrilled to announce the winners of our Dream, Create, Liberate: A Future Without Family Policing call for submissions. We asked artists to lead our collective movement with radical imagination,...
View Article“Dream, Create, Liberate” Afrofuturist Art Book Out Now
On June 19, 2020, upEND launched a collaborative movement to protect children and reimagine how to support families. Today, on Juneteenth, a day synonymous with liberation, we invite you to continue...
View ArticleReflections on Pride 2024
by Maya Pendleton There’s been much conversation about contemporary Pride celebrations and their departure from the historical meanings of Pride. Formally, Pride commemorates the Stonewall Uprising,...
View ArticleConfronting the “What about…” Questions
Authors: Angela Burton, Alan Dettlaff, Maya Pendleton Download PDF Abolition is hopeful, aspirational, and above all, practical. Family policing abolitionists aspire to a world in which incidents...
View ArticleDon’t Miss Our Keynote Conversation with Kelly Hayes and Maya Pendleton at...
We are excited to announce our keynote conversation between Kelly Hayes and upEND’s cofounder Maya Pendleton! At our 2024 Convening “In Solidarity”, we’re expanding our strategy to connect the family...
View ArticleSeason 2 of the upEND Podcast Explores Questions of Solidarity
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 does...
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