i have a very deep fear that abolition is going to be watered down to just “take money from police and give it to therapists/schools/hospitals and then we’re done”. abolition is about reimagining how we understand and address harm. . .

it requires investments well beyond monetary. it means we are responsible for each other’s wellbeing. a friend reminded me earlier this week that abolition DOES NOT mean liberation. it’s a step towards liberation but once police and prisons are gone . . .

wHite supremacy still will exist, misogyny will still exist, transphobia, ableism, classism, all the isms still will exist. and so the work is not just to remove police and prisons. it’s to actively build structures that reject and even dismantle oppressive systems . . .

the work is to maintain those structures while also allowing them to transform as needed. please please please remember that the capitalist wHite supremacist cishetero patriarchy is the opposition and the police are but one structure of it

should also say when i mean "fear" i still very much believe in organizers, community members, and activists who have been doing this work well before many of us even considered abolition and who will continue the work in whatever circumstances. . .

my concern is that the barriers around doing that very work may only shift rather than be removed