Status Updates From Chain-Gang All-Stars

“I learned a long time ago. On this one thing you don’t negotiate. You love through all the people you’ve been and hope you have a chance at being better.”
“What I’m telling you is, you can curse yourself to the moon and back and what will it have you feeling like? But try to look at yourself and say ‘I love you’ and see what happens.”

It was still them even then. As a pair, they were full of destiny; that they could never deny.

“And Staxx held him, at his chest, as it happened, rather than the blade, because she knew what he wanted and needed was to be held.

“The carceral state depends on a dichotomy between innocent and guilty, or good and bad, so that they can then define harm on their terms, in the name of justice, and administer it on a massive scale to support a capitalistic, violent, and inherently inequitable system.”

“I’m an abolitionist, which means I’m interested in investing in communities to address problems rather than carceral answers that don’t serve communities at all. Murderers and rapists do great harm, but the carceral institutions in this country do little to mitigate that harm. In fact, they do more harm to individuals and communities.” cont

Everybody got a name: a story of truths and lies.

“How you quiet and loud at the same time, Singer?” Razor asks.

For me. I thought of how the world can be anything and how sad it is that it’s this.