It’s helpful to communicate abolition through lived experiences so that people can work through their abolition phobias.
This is how I explain aspects of abolition to my cousins:

“Remember if some girls wanted to fight me I would come home and tell everyone?

And remember how when I told everyone they would call Gma, Tye, Silk, Keeba, Tiff, etc. to meet us at the house? Then, when they got to the house we would all go outside together and someone would say:

“Who got a problem with my little cousin?” Then when people realized how many

people I had with me ready to fight and protect me they ain’t wanna fight no more, so they started to leave me alone in school?

Yeah, so when we were doing that, we were doing an abolitionist form of street justice. We ain’t call the cops cause we ain’t need them, fr.”

Lmao. This really helps them! When I do this they be like, “ohhhh so we been abolitionists..”

Lmao then I hit them with.. Nah, Read this by Joy James.

Also, explaining things this way also helps folks work through the trauma of their survival practices. It helps release the shame associated to the conditions we were born in..

It lets us know we did wtf we had to do...