“While all harms are not equal, even the most heinous require a way home.”
― We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
― We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
“Online, we perform solidarity for strangers rather than engaging in hard conversations with comrades.”
― We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
― We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
“Knee-jerk call outs say: those who cause harm or mess up or disagree with us cannot change and cannot belong. They must be eradicated. The bad things in the world cannot change, we must disappear the bad until there is only good left.
But one layer under that, what I hear is:
We cannot change.
We do not believe we can create compelling pathways from being harm doers to being healed, to growing.
We do not believe we can hold the complexity of a gray situation.
We do not believe in our own complexity.
We do not believe we can navigate conflict and struggle in principled ways.
We can only handle binary thinking: good/bad, innocent/guilty, angel/abuser, black/white, etc.”
― We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
But one layer under that, what I hear is:
We cannot change.
We do not believe we can create compelling pathways from being harm doers to being healed, to growing.
We do not believe we can hold the complexity of a gray situation.
We do not believe in our own complexity.
We do not believe we can navigate conflict and struggle in principled ways.
We can only handle binary thinking: good/bad, innocent/guilty, angel/abuser, black/white, etc.”
― We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
“Accountability isn’t punishment, though it is frequently wielded as such.”
― We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
― We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
“I want our movement to feel like a vibrant, accountable space where causing harm does not mean you are excluded immediately and eternally from healing, justice, community, or belonging.”
― We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
― We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
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