Status Updates From Per una giustizia trasforma...

"It requires great honesty to admit tht innocence is an imagined narrative created2deny every1 agency & to set up those who cross lines & cause harm as deviant outliers, exceptions2humanity's rule. Especially when even a modest look inside one's own history reveal that every hand has dirt on it."

"Accountability isn't punishment, though it is frequently wielded as such. But, when we r able2discern btween wht r triggered bodies say & wht r grounded bodies do, we can build th kinds of systems & practices we need2align our leadership & our movements. This is a spiritual alignment as much as it is a political one. It correlates principle & purpose2process & outcomes. It is not reactive. It is not punitive."

"Thrgh my own personal healing, I hav learned2 recognise th diference between a sitch tht is genuinely unsafe & one that is simply uncomfortable. I hav learned th difference between intolerable feelings & intolerable conditions. While none of this wrk made me perfect, it has helped me2become a better abolitionist, one who recognises tht, while all harms are not th same, for a survivor like me, they might feel tht way

"But if we want to create a world in which conflict & trauma aren't the centre of our collective existence, we have to practice something new, ask different questions, access again our curiosity about each other as a species.

"It's not about pack hunting an external enemy, it's about deep shifts in our own ways of being."

"But lately, as the attacks grow faster & more vicious, I wonder: is this what we're here for? To cultivate a fear-based adherence to reductive common values? What can this lead to in an imperfect world full of sloppy, complex humans? Is it possible we will call each other out until there's no one left besides us?"

"Online, we perform solidarity for strangers rather than engaging in hard conversations with comrades."

"Instead of asking whether anyone should be locked up or go free, why don't we think about why we solve problems by repeating the kind of behaviour that brought us the problem in the first place?" Ruth Wilson Gilmore

"Th truth about sexual assault & rape & patriarchy & white supremacy & other abuses of power is tht we are swimming in them, in a society tht has long normalised them, & tht they often play out intimately.

Th truth is, sometimes it takes a long time for us to realise th harm tht has happened to us. And longer to realise we have caused harm to others."

"...I have been trying to discern when a call out feels powerful, like the necessary move, versus when it feels like a feeding frenzy."

"My third unthinkable thought - why does it feel like we are committed to punishment, and enjoying it? Why do our movements more & more often feel like we are moving with sharp teeth against ourselves? And what is at stake because of that pattern, that feeling?"

"Th tools of swift & predatory justice feel good to us, familiar, groove in the hand easily from repeated use & training, briefly satisfying. But these tools are often blunt & senseless."