#Abolitionists

Señorita Rocío

I realized what I find unsettling about some prison abolitionists.In rape culture there's "good victims" & "bad victims".There's also "good victims" & "bad victims" for abolitionists.

hi, i've wanted to share my book cover for a while. here it is. especially now, i believe that more people will realize that we deserve a world without police.

Kaleidic Riot 🏴 🏳️‍🌈🥑

It bothers me when abolitionists I respect say things like "There's no evidence police make anyone safer."There are decent papers using reasonable causal inference methods that find police deter crimes

chrisjudetaylor

Peeled off to errand; some redundant reflections: Younger ppl in Chicago rock and are very smart.The youthfulness of police abolitionists isn’t an accident. After whiteness, the second best predictor of

Brian Sonenstein

I've been meaning to write this since @MicahHerskind's great essay on violence. But I don't have much time to write these days. So I want to just put it out

🦋Rising☀️

I’m really enjoying how @kcarterjackson describes the tensions between Black and White abolitionists during slavery, especially because I think it informs the struggle today.There was compromise in the 1830s. Today,

It's jarring to see folks who are speaking as abolitionists on webinars also calling for charges to be brought against cops. I absolutely get why our people ask for that.

I think sometimes when people say “abolitionists offer no alternative to prison” what they mean, and maybe don’t realize, is that they want an alternative that feels as vindictive as

Hi all, as requested, I was gonna do a blog post about all the sex work terminology used so it is more accessible to non-swers.Of course, I do not know

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i'll say that nothing i've read, understood, or practiced about abolition can be reduced to non-violence; which is to say, abolition aint a theory of pacifism. it's a theory and

People will say abolition is unrealistic because [insert instance of violence], but the instance of violence being described is actually unfolding *now*, under the largest police state in the world...meaning

Just wondering. A 20 y.o. young man was murdered today on E 95th Street. The armed murderer fled the scene. For the defunders and "abolitionists" out there- how many fewer

to the china-fetishizing western leftists anxiously thinking of new ways to smear hong kongers fighting state violence: relax. tomorrow many of us will no longer be able to voice our

Governor Mike DeWine

This virus is real. It is killing our family members, our friends, our co-workers. We must take the long view in our response and remember that Ohioans have always been

if you are preaching about prison +/ police abolition and also say that abusive or mean people should never have the resources to be genuinely rehabilitated I have bad news

The hardest philosophical struggle of abolition is to change the conversation from "Did the police/state kill in the right way?" to "Ought the police/state have the right to kill?" And