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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Aug 1

A delightful few days at the #SEALS2025 conference catching up with wonderful colleagues. Highlights included moderating a dynamic session titled “The Scholarship and Impact of Dorothy Roberts,” & participating in the family law pedagogy workshop. Heading home filled with exciting ideas and seafood!

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Jun 10

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#freedomiscoming #tprwillend
#abolitionism #stolenchildrensmonth

True Narratives: Framing Pain, Punishment, and the Lethality of Termination of Parental Rights - Corey B. Best, Sarah Katz, 2025

This essay is written in the practice of abolitionism, to disentangle controlling myths from reality that overwhelmingly stifle expansive and honest discourse a...

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Jun 10

In True Narratives: Framing the Pain, Punishment & Lethality of Termination of Parental Rights, through the practice of abolitionism, Corey Best and I seek to make the chains visible, beginning to excavate the true costs of family policing’s relentless reliance on the civil death penalty.

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Jun 10

What will it take to make our chains visible and practice a collective reckoning- that holds a sacred reminder that freedom has and must always remain the vision.

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Jun 10

What if the truth is hiding in plain sight, cloaked in the shame and silencing of the wounds of grieving parents and stolen children — normalized by a society that sees their pain as deserved?

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Jun 10

What if appeals to morality hold little sway, because a twisted notion of morality —which once sanctified the auction block, but now justifies the pain and punishment of termination of parental rights - was forged into the chains of injustice?

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Jun 10

What myths, forged in the furnace of anti-Blackness, uphold this peculiar system’s reliance on the civil death penalty—the permanent severing of Black families - a legacy of forced family separation which reverberates for generations?

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Jun 10

What if we practiced living in truth, where we understand family policing as nothing but a modern day plantation—reborn in bureaucracy—where the chains are legal, the overseers wear badges, and the lash is replaced with court orders?

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Jun 2

New article drop! Corey B Best & I seek to reveal the death-making nature of termination of parental rights thru #truenarratives, arguing sustainable, positive change cannot occur if TPR reigns as a mainstay threat & tool for decimating familial connection journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

True Narratives: Framing Pain, Punishment, and the Lethality of Termination of Parental Rights - Corey B. Best, Sarah Katz, 2025

This essay is written in the practice of abolitionism, to disentangle controlling myths from reality that overwhelmingly stifle expansive and honest discourse a...

journals.sagepub.com

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · May 25

What a joy to discuss Decarceralizing and Decolonizing Family Law at #lsa2025 with such a phenomenal group! I could have chatted all day with Corey B Best, Tianna Gibbs , Emily Poor, Lisa Washington, and Jessica Dixon Weaver !

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · May 19

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David A. Love @davidalove.bsky.social · May 10

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5 Years After George Floyd: Will We Ever Get True Police Reform?

Despite demands for systemic change, there were missed opportunities after the “racial reckoning” of 2020. We'd better learn from those mistakes if we want lasting change.

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · May 7

Sad you can’t make it to the Black Mothers’ March this Sunday? You can still support @movfamilypower.bsky.social in getting Black Mamas there! It’s not too late to buy merch or make a donation!

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · May 7

Sad you can’t make it to the Black Mothers’ March this Sunday? You can still support @movfamilypower.bsky.social in getting Black Mamas there! It’s not too late to buy merch or make a donation!
www.blackmothersmarch.com/shop

Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Apr 30

Panel on incorporating family defense into family law clinics ✅ Attending @baltlegal ‘s LawyerUp! event ✅ Beautiful weather & vistas ✅ Phenomenal food ✅ Connecting with inspiring colleagues & friends new & old ✅ #aalsclinical2025

Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Apr 30

My love for Charm City is part of my lineage, but Bal’more owes me nothing after the magic of these 4 days 🦀 🪄 Panel discussion on how law clinics can leverage the movement to abolish family policing ✅ Co-facilitating 3 discussion groups on family defense ✅

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Apr 28

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Apr 28

This was a fun discussion #aalsclinical2025

Danielle Pelfrey Duryea @pelfreyduryea.bsky.social · Apr 27

Erin Miles Cloud @movfamilypower.bsky.social reminds that different localities are in different places with movement against #familypolicing. With @skatzesq.bsky.social Tarek Ismail @cunylaw.bsky.social Baher Azmy @ccrjustice.org Lisa Sangoi @reproaction.bsky.social

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Apr 23

Along with the students, this journey wouldn’t be possible without the support of the Stoneleigh Foundation, the partnership (and patience) of community & movement leaders (you know who you are!), and the phenomenal contributions of clinic fellow Tiffany Cobb

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Apr 23

I have often said this year felt like building a plane while flying it, yet I am so deeply proud of our advocacy in partnership and solidarity with families and family-led community partners so far, and we are JUST getting started!

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Sarah Katz @skatzesq.bsky.social · Apr 23

As this semester draws to a close, I have such deep gratitude for the law students who have joined me on a journey of imagining, creating and learning, which has resulted in the formation of the new Family Justice Clinic at @templelaw.bsky.social