About the project
Give Over is a project that uses border abolition to reframe media reporting of refugees and immigration more broadly. We’re funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and coordinated by Opus. We use theories and practices of abolition to explore how local media, including our publishing platform Now Then Magazine, can strategically initiate conversations with a focus on narrative change.
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We use workshops, archival work, and local reporting to challenge white supremacist and racist attitudes to global movement. We want to push people from a point of "refugees welcome" to a point of understanding the violence required in order to maintain borders. The project demonstrates how an abolitionist lens re-makes journalistic practice into a community growth endeavour rooted in solidarity, anti-racism, and the dismantling of borders.
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Partner orgs
Centre for Equity and Inclusion, Dig Where You Stand, Cradle Community, Independent Media Association
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Latest update
Latest updates
Our artists exhibition exploring abolition and borders ran from October 21st-November 12th at the Showroom Workstation. We are now gathering feedback from those who attended the exhibition:
12 November 2024
We've now published our toolkit, putting forward the case for journalists reporting on borders to use an abolitionist framework:
4 November 2024
We worked with Opus Films to produce a series of short videos for social media exploring the truth behind the University of Sheffield's "we are international" branding.
1 November 2024
Illustration credit: Ruth Tay