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Queer communities practice a specific form of punitive politics (often referred to as cancel culture) that is inconsistent with prison abolitionism and therefore inconsistent with a truly liberatory queer politics
There’s nothing queer or feminist about ostracising vulnerable people. People who need community support for their mental/physical/social well-being. Yes that includes queers who’ve committed intimate partner abuse and/or sexual violence
Our current practices are inadequate and need to change. Casting out queers who’ve caused harm reproduces carceral logic in supposedly progressive spaces it solves nothing does not address the actual problems and causes harm to vulnerable people
The justification that it’s about “protecting people” is bullshit. That too is carceral logic. It assumes people are inherently essentially bad and cannot change for the better. That causing harm is a fixed character trait. So the bad people need to be cast out
What that does in effect is punish those people with social isolation (oh shit that’s one of the ways prisons harm people)
Adding more harm and pain and mental anguish to the world doesn’t help survivors. But it does make supposed progressives feel good and righteous
Figuring out better practices is an ongoing process. I don’t have a whole solution to offer no one does but there is a lot of work being done to construct better ways of doing things. I believe that there is a better way and that faith is the starting point of abolitionism
