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“That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this to even have happened. It is really critical for people to think about the difference between punishment and consequences. Punishment often is actually not the same as transformation. Even though it feels good to wear the “kill the rapists” T-shirt, that isn’t the thing that is actually going to get us the world we want to live in.”
― We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
― We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
“If You find Your imagination cannot stop itself from churning out the scripts of the Death Machines, pull its plug. Dismantle it. Reprogram it. Dream Daylight. Manufacture Daylight. We are the Magicians.
Make Magic.”
― Too Much Midnight
Make Magic.”
― Too Much Midnight
“These are feminists who would say, in the words of former political prisoner Susan Saxe, “My feminism does not drive me into the arms of the state, but even further from it.”
― We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
― We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
“a system that never addresses the why behind a harm never actually contains the harm itself. Cages confine people, not the conditions that facilitated their harms or the mentalities that perpetuate violence.”
― We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
― We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
“Through talking with my friend I began to think about the intensity of the rage TJ practitioners hold when the process doesn't go exactly how a survivor expects. And the anger and hatred is not just directed at TJ practitioners, but at TJ as a practice itself. There's a piece of capitalism in it. It feels like a terrible purchase. "I purchased a process, and you were supposed to give me salvation. This is not salvation. I hate you and I curse you and all of your generations." I'm not blaming survivors or support teams at all. It's just that we can't return people to their lives before trauma, or before violence, and that realization can feel devastating.”
― Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
― Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
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