Audrey Shipp

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Globally Black/Left. Creative nonfiction writer. Editor. Blogging at https://audreyshipp.substack.com/
Audrey ShippFeb 22, 2023
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The killers of Tyre Nichols were members of the police unit called SCORPION (Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods). In Nigeria there had been years of complaints about the police unit called SARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad). Nigerian citizens complained of being arrested, detained, and tortured by SARS officers.
Audrey ShippFeb 22, 2023
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Journalist Chris Hedges stated that the "military and police forces in the U.S. function as armies of occupation" stabilizing corporate colonialism. Despite the five Memphis officers being Black, the "representationalist" aspect of identity politics, to quote the late Glen Ford, has not saved us. During the October 2020 protests in Lagos, soldiers killed forty-eight people and another ninety-six corpses were later found. #EndSARS https://audreyshipp.substack.com/p/cop-brutality-memphis-and-nigerias
Cop Brutality: @Memphis and Nigeria's #EndSARS

My Memphis trauma revolves around the universe of Wiley Benton who was one of twelve children born to my maternal great grandparents...

Blog Riffs Writing the Globe
Show threadAudrey ShippFeb 22, 2023
Journalist Chris Hedges stated that the "military and police forces in the U.S. function as armies of occupation" stabilizing corporate colonialism. Despite the five Memphis officers being Black, the "representationalist" aspect of identity politics, to quote the late Glen Ford, has not saved us. During the October 2020 protests in Lagos, soldiers killed forty-eight people and another ninety-six corpses were later found. #EndSARS https://audreyshipp.substack.com/p/cop-brutality-memphis-and-nigerias
Cop Brutality: @Memphis and Nigeria's #EndSARS

My Memphis trauma revolves around the universe of Wiley Benton who was one of twelve children born to my maternal great grandparents...

Blog Riffs Writing the Globe
Show threadAudrey ShippFeb 22, 2023
The killers of Tyre Nichols were members of the police unit called SCORPION (Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods). In Nigeria there had been years of complaints about the police unit called SARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad). Nigerian citizens complained of being arrested, detained, and tortured by SARS officers.
Audrey ShippFeb 22, 2023
My Memphis trauma revolves around the universe of Wiley Benton who was one of twelve children born to my maternal great grandparents. A young Wiley left home to run an errand in 1930's Memphis in a part of the city where houses fade into trees. Hours, days later, he never returned. Never. His was the empty plate at every family reunion in Memphis and during all the Christmas dinners of his siblings in Chicago and Los Angeles. https://audreyshipp.substack.com/p/cop-brutality-memphis-and-nigerias
Cop Brutality: @Memphis and Nigeria's #EndSARS

My Memphis trauma revolves around the universe of Wiley Benton who was one of twelve children born to my maternal great grandparents...

Blog Riffs Writing the Globe
Audrey ShippFeb 9, 2023
Read my latest, "The Incalculable Costs of California's Mass Shootings," on my freeee Substack. https://audreyshipp.substack.com/
Blog Riffs Writing the Globe

Blog: because nonfiction. Riffs: because brief improvisational writing based on call & response. Click to read Blog Riffs Writing the Globe, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.

Audrey ShippJan 28, 2023
DidiQJan 27, 2023
“"In Germany, teaching the Holocaust is mandatory. It includes visits to concentration camp, museums, etc. They don’t shy away from their own ugly history. Yet the kids aren’t damaged; they’re strengthened, matured, humbled. US needs to do same re slavery. Not that complicated.”
Siggy Rose.
Audrey ShippDec 26, 2022
My latest personal essay, "Rain-Soaked Banana Plantations, Quetzal Birds, Garifuna Music," has been published by Isele Magazine. https://iselemagazine.com/2022/12/23/rain-soaked-banana-plantations-quetzal-birds-garifuna-music-audrey-shipp/
"My first trip to Guatemala, I assumed my liberation from the torment of work would be a brochure-perfect tropical paradise of white sand and clear-water beaches. My partner had done little to discourage my tourist fantasies...
Rain-Soaked Banana Plantations, Quetzal Birds, Garifuna Music | Audrey Shipp

Isele Magazine
Audrey ShippDec 19, 2022
Why Jared Kushner be looking like he was in Stepford Wives?
Audrey ShippDec 19, 2022
Referring to Sub Saharan Africa is like referring to Sub Rio Grande America. #Africa #panafricanism