Jasmine

Owens

STRATEGIC COMMUNICATOR, WRITER // DEATH DOULA

ABOUT JASMINE

Jasmine Owens (she/her) is a strategic communicator, writer, nuclear weapons abolitionist 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 trained death doula, Jasmine is interested in public education on what a death doula is, the revolutionary act of dying a good death, and how dying a good death helps us live better lives.

PUBLISHED WORKS

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

A screenshot of an article published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists by Jasmine Owens titled "The false equivalency of nuclear disarmament and nuclear abolition"

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

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

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.”