"USA at 250 is an unending story of erasure and resistance." - @gdsolis.bsky.social For two decades, AVP has worked alongside directly impacted communities to document, archive, and share community records, and to build community-controlled memory infrastructure. Read more: bit.ly/3TyHLWM

Open Call for Keepsakes Guest Artists! 🎨 We are inviting submissions of completed visual works related to memory, records, and personal archives to be shown in a group exhibition alongside the creative work of currently incarcerated collaborators. Apps due 7/12. 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4ebQvJ3

⚡ Just published: Crime is a Mother A searing vignette by AVP Fellow Starr Davis on what it means when the state rewrites your life as a Black mother. Thank you, Starr. 💐 This Mother's Day, read, share, and show up for Black mothers. Read full essay: afterviolenceproject.org/crime-is-a-mother

Our 2025 Impact Report, Against Erasure, is here. 🎨The cover is by AVP's Writer-in-Residence Rocko Jones — an incarcerated organizer, writer, and artist. His vision feels made for this moment. Thank you to every supporter. We are because of you. 📖 Read full report via bit.ly/4cENwrP

From preserving manuscripts worldwide to documenting communities impacted by violence, they highlight why protecting digital memory matters now more than ever. @afterviolence.bsky.social @visithmml.bsky.social

📢 A step forward for digital memory rights! @InternetArchive.EU new signatories have joined the “Statement on Digital Rights,” strengthening a global push to protect how memory institutions preserve & share knowledge, history, and testimony. 🔗⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/10/d... 🧵

Introducing Reclamation 🎥 — a new documentary following Clifford Fuggett as he investigates his mother's disappearance and honors his father, Charles Milton, executed by the state of Texas in 1985. Directed by Estevan Padilla. Produced by AVP. Screenings coming soon. www.reclamationfilm.com

One more time for the people in the back! 📣 Applications are open until April 12 at 11:59 PM CT, and that's a hard deadline. If you're interested, don't wait! 🗂️

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🔈Internship Alert: AVP is offering a paid Documentation & Archives internship! You'll support archival processing, technical + admin work, and the After Violence Archive. Austin-based preferred, but all are encouraged to apply. Apply by 4/12: bit.ly/4ltVmJ1

💌 Hey y’all—want to stay in the loop with everything AVP is reading, building, and remembering together? Our monthly newsletter is the first place we share upcoming events, tools, and announcements at the intersection of memory work and abolition. 📬Join us: bit.ly/4t85d9M

the documentation & archives team at @afterviolence.bsky.social is looking to hire a paid intern for may - december 🌈 app closes 4/12 afterviolenceproject.org/opportunities/

🔈Internship Alert: AVP is offering a paid Documentation & Archives internship! You'll support archival processing, technical + admin work, and the After Violence Archive. Austin-based preferred, but all are encouraged to apply. Apply by 4/12: bit.ly/4ltVmJ1

This month we honor the spirit of Tomeka Hayes 🕊️ -- a Black mother in AL, interviewed by AVP's 2024 VAV Fellow Brother Rob. Her story holds enduring love amid criminalization and loss, and a steadfast refusal to give up on her people. 🎧 Interview: bit.ly/4b6GtZq 💸 Support her family: bit.ly/4cK3DWP

As the Trump administration audits federal museums, defunds libraries, and pressures institutions to erase the past, community based archives remain vital sites of resistance. We're honored to be feat alongside @invisiblehistories.bsky.social , Shorefront Legacy Center, & Community Archives Collab

If Federal Museums Aren’t Allowed to Tell the Truth About the Past, it’sTime to Start Supporting…

By Michelle Caswell and Bergis Jules

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📽️ LA LIBERTAD DE FIERRO (The Freedom of Fierro) 🗓 Wed, Jan 28 | 7–9:30 PM 📍 Austin Film Society Cinema 🎟 Free | RSVP: bit.ly/libertad-fie... 🎤 Panels after both screenings w/ the director, César Fierro (via Zoom), and legal advocates.

César Fierro spent over 40 years on Texas death row for a crime he didn’t commit—despite evidence of police corruption and a forced confession. Convicted at 23, he was released in 2020. Join us next week for a two-part documentary on his time inside and his ongoing fight after freedom. 👇🏽

🚨 Just Published: New Essay by AVP community member, Chanel Jones. Drawing from her years of incarceration, she exposes the devastating consequences of neglecting mental health behind bars—and the racial & class disparities that determine who is deemed worthy of care. Read more: bit.ly/45HpL00

When officials say “no one saw it coming,” archives tell another story. @propublica.org reporting shows how oral histories from Kerr County, TX reveal decades of community warnings about deadly floods—warnings long ignored by those in power.

Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks.

After a tragedy, records from local archives can help us understand how a community understands itself. Here’s some of what we learned following the devastating July 4 flooding in Texas.

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📣 Texas fam — mark your calendars! 🎬 Da'Cipher 360 premiere 🗓️ Sat, Aug 23 @6pm 📍 Paramount Theatre — 52 Cypress St, Abilene TX 🎟️ Free! This doc follows AVP community partner Brother Rob through his reentry + organizing journey as a peer support leader & formerly incarcerated Black organizer

SAVE THE DATE: JULY 18 🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/4lmqJUY Sanctuary Fridays are spaces of refuge for those impacted by state violence. This month we'll be preparing for the Former Incarcerated People's March (7/19) by making posters & practicing some useful grounding exercises. Refreshments & snacks provided.

A new report from @lionessjiwa.bsky.social and @txcivilrights.bsky.social reveals the systemic neglect of reproductive and women’s healthcare in Texas prisons and jails. Nearly 200 incarcerated women reported a lack of access to medical care, menstrual supplies, and dehumanizing treatment by staff.

Repro-Justice Report | TCRP

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Join us on June 25th for our #Pride edition of Sanctuary Friday, an abolitionist space for and by people impacted by state violence. Together, we celebrate and reflect on the legacy of Pride and movements that dream of a world without state violence. 🔗 RSVP here: form.jotform.com/251524715141...

#AbolitionReads: AVP community member Jorge Antonio Renaud published The Restlessness of Bound Wrists, with key themes of. resistance, and compassion. Congrats Jorge! The book also features an introduction by AVP’s Executive Director, @gdsolis.bsky.social. 📖 Read & order your copy: bit.ly/3HymG8W

Jorge Antonio Renaud's The Restlessness of Bound Wrists - Infrarrealista Review

The Restlessness of Bound Wrists is a high-voltage letter of resistance against the Texan carceral system. It’s a prayer of recognition to those touched by addiction. The speaker’s voice is a quiet lu...

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We mourn the loss of Matthew L. Johnson—and we reject the state of Texas’s continued use of the death penalty. On May 20th 2025, Texas executed Matthew Johnson—the fourth person Texas has executed this year, and the 18th in the U.S. so far in 2025.

Welcome our Communications Director dre jácome! 🎉 dre is an Andean storyteller, artist, and strategist based on Lenapehoking lands (Brooklyn, NY). Her work weaves collective narratives across traditional and digital technologies to support memory work, cultural organizing, and collective liberation.

Sign up for our Access to Treatment Initiative June training series! This training is for students, clinical interns, and licensed therapists to learn about how to support family members of individuals who have been sentenced to death. 🔗 bit.ly/43EWuCE

AVP’s Executive Director, Gabriel Solís (@gdsolis.bsky.social) had a conversation with Educopia about endangered forms of knowledge, restorative operations, and throwing out the rules as part of their Systems Leadership Series. Read the full interview here! educopia.org/blog/an-inte...

An Interview with Gabriel Solís, After Violence Project [Systems Leadership Series #01] — Educopia

Gabriel Solís of the After Violence Project discusses systems leadership through the lens of abolitionist advocacy, community archives, and restorative operations

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We're deeply grief-stricken by the recent dismantling & defunding of essential sites for community knowledge & cultural heritage. Join us for conversations & grounding exercises where we can share our experiences of loss in this moment & discuss how to move forward together. Links in the post below

AVP Community Community Archives Manager Raquel Garcia, Associate Director of Programs & Strategy Hannah Whelan, & Community Programs Director Murphy Anne Carter flew to Pau, France, to present at the conference Individual and Collective Experiences of Place: Attachment, Belonging and Participation.

🎥 Join us for a screening of In Their Hands, the story of Ronnie Carrasquillo, a man sentenced to life as a youth, and the decades-long fight for his freedom. This film explores how parole decisions are shaped by politics, power, and a system resistant to change. 🧵 1/3

On Saturday, April 26th at 4 PM we'll be honoring Second Chance Month by reclaiming our stories! Folks from across Texas are coming together to celebrate and discuss Second Chances. Groups or individuals can join virtually. Click the link below for all the details! 🔗 docs.google.com/document/d/1...