Jasmine

Owens

WRITER, EDUCATOR, ORGANIZER // DEATH DOULA

ABOUT JASMINE

Jasmine Owens (she/her) is a Milwaukee-based writer, educator, organizer, and trained death doula. Since 2017, she has focused on her passions for writing, public education and movement-building as a nuclear weapons abolitionist.

As a death doula, Jasmine is interested in public education on the revolutionary act of dying a good death as a medium for transforming our relationships with death, a necessary undertaking in building liberated futures.

RECENT WORKS

Atomic Alchemy Zine #1: Nuclear Weapons Abolition and the Revolutionary Capacities of Grief and Love | Ploughshares

Dying Well, Living Fully: Emotional Transformation as Fuel for Liberation in Life and Death | Ploughshares Story Center

Building the World Anew: The Case For Radically Redefining the Nuclear Abolition Movement | Win Without War

‘Closing the Gap Between Vision and Practice:’ Understanding Emergent Strategies For Authentic Intersectional Organizing in the Nuclear Abolition Movement | Win Without War

The False Equivalency of Nuclear Disarmament and Nuclear Abolition | Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Storytelling and Unmaking the Nuclear Death-World | Inkstick Media

PHILOSOPHY

Jasmine believes that any journey to a liberated future must be led by those most vulnerable among us—those who find themselves at the intersections of being Black, Indigenous, trans, queer, disabled, and/or poor.

In particular, she seeks to root her expertise and values in the Black Radical Tradition and Indigenous ways of knowing and being in right relationship with the earth, because as renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson reminds us:

“Imperialism and ongoing colonialism have been ending worlds for as long as they have been in existence, and Indigenous and Black peoples have been building worlds and then rebuilding worlds for as long as we have been in existence. Relentlessly building worlds through unspeakable violence and loss.”