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i went to a really powerful webinar this afternoon called “PODS 101” that @miamingus facilitated and i want to share some of my key take-aways, questions to mediate on, and quotes that resonated with me
content warning: violence + abuse
content warning: violence + abuse
1. What are the “small” day-to-day actions you can take to end violence, harm and abuse?
2. How do you respond to violence, harm and abuse within your own communities? How would you like it to look like?
2. How do you respond to violence, harm and abuse within your own communities? How would you like it to look like?
3. POD: is made up of the people that you would call on if violence, harm or abuse happened (whether you have been harmed or have caused harm)
4. You can also have MULTIPLE pods: accountability pods, emotional support pods, COVID-19 pods, etc.
4. You can also have MULTIPLE pods: accountability pods, emotional support pods, COVID-19 pods, etc.
5. “Relationship and trust, not always political analysis, continue to be two of the most important factors in successful Transformative Justice interventions” - Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective
6. “Violence does not usually begin with serious levels of harm. It begins with signs or smaller violations that, if unchecked, lead to larger violations. We have to come up with processes of intervention that can address violence at its small stages – not zero tolerance .. “
“.. approaches that slam people with punitive measures or ban them from spaces immediately, which often encourage people to go underground rather than stop violence.”
— Mimi Kim in The Abolitionist, Issue #16, Life After the Prison Industrial Complex
— Mimi Kim in The Abolitionist, Issue #16, Life After the Prison Industrial Complex
7. “Our inability to respond to conflict, hurt and misunderstanding evolves into violence .. responding to violence is extremely hard and we shouldn’t have to wait till then to respond” - @miamingus
8. How do you build a “good pod”? — deepen relationships with your friends, practice vulnerability, write out your values and share them, ask questions
9. communicate. communicate. communicate.
9. communicate. communicate. communicate.
overall, i left feeling very happy and excited for all the growing i want to do. i haven’t felt this much joy in a minute too so this was refreshing
