#abolition now

[unveilandresist]

so I'm seeing more people talking about defunding and abolishing the police again. it's really important to learn about the nature of policing, its origins and why policing can't be reformed - why we can't use body cameras or better training to fix police brutality.

in light of the conversation being in the public eye again I wanted to share that the great book The End of Policing is free from Verso right now. it's helped me so much with my understanding of policing and police abolition and I hope it helps you too! Please share this post!

#abolish the police #police abolition #abolition #abolition now #policeabolition #police brutality #books

[metamatar]

reading about the spate of singaporean death row convictions and it's absolutely mad, people are being executed for 44g of heroin. several of them are indian origin men and its been very dispiriting to read tbh. some of them had private correspondence leaked as well.

#abolition now

[tinyboatbigshark]

I love this questioning of the highest court! If this is the bullshit being pulled at the federal level, isn't it horrifying what must be happening locally? If we can agree that decisions passed by the court are not perfect, upholding unjust laws, can’t we extend that logic to dig down deep on Abolition? 

#abolition #abolition now #just saying #scotus

[blackpearlblast]

five days until the state of georgia is scheduled to execute willie pye

#death penalty #death penalty action #prison abolition #petitions #i can't remember my other tags right now i'm sorry :( #i've been pretty sick so this post is both late and low effort if someone wants to make a better one i wholly encourage it #i'm just signed up to death penalty actions mailing list and crossposting the petitions/other important news on here when i can

[trans-axolotl]

Image description: [Black text on lined paper. Text reads: Share your story with the Psych Survivor Archive. Hold the psychiatric system accountable for the violence and coercion we've survived. Make space for our anger. Grieve together. Celebrate our resistance. The Psych Survivor Archive is a forum for psych survivors to share about their experiences and be believed. You can share as much or as little as you want. Your story will be anonymously published on the website with writing from other psych survivors. The archive is open to anyone who identifies as a psych survivor, including people who survived inpatient hospitalization, rehab, troubled teen industry, partial hospitalization, outpatient programs, ABA, and any other form of coercion psych treatment. Check out the prompts, participant rights, and content guidelines. Share your story now: www.psychsurvivorarchive.com/submit-your-story]

Hey everyone. I wanted to share this here as well. The Psych Survivor Archive is looking for anyone who wants to share their story and have it anonymously published on the website, in order to create a collection of our experiences navigating the psych system. Your responses will be anonymous and can be as detailed or vague as you want. On the website, there are prompts, but you can feel free to share in whatever format makes sense to you.

This is a more informal way to participate in the Psych Survivor Archive if you are not interested in creating art for the zine, but still want your story to be heard and validated.

For me, it has felt very cathartic to write out my story, on my terms, in the way that I want to be known. I hope that the archive can offer that space to other psych survivors as well, and I can't wait to keep developing this project and offering even more. In the next couple weeks, submissions will open up for the second edition of the zine, so if you're interested in submitting creative art or writing keep an eye out!

love and solidarity always <3

#personal #psych survivor #antipsych #survivingpsych #mad liberation #mad pride #madpunk #neurodivergent #mental illness #psych abolition #antipsychiatry #thank you SO much to everyone who's submitted stories so far. they are now live on the website #for me i process through writing. it means a lot to feel seen #and this is a small thing that i would like. to do with other people as well. idk #i know writing and sharing is really not everyone's thing and that's totally okay. as always there's #no pressure to participate. just an option #hopefully will be publishing some more zines soon about basic antipsych topics which would be lovely

[pillarsalt]

little earwig doodle to celebrate my new drawing tablet 🥳

#radfem safe #radical feminism #gender abolition #radfems please touch #getting used to all the BUTTONS AND DIALS HAHAA #i was using my shit ass wacom from high school all through college until now this is great #getting used to the different workflow and still have to make some adjustments but i'm quite happy with it #there will be more art very soon #art #mine

[sweetstarcollector]

I was looking up some statistics on juvenile detention centers when I came across this chart from the Department of Justice. It lists crime categories, and among other things, what percentage of those arrested for each crime category were female. It also only lists offenses committed by minors. I scrolled through, and noticed that in every category females accounted for less than 50% of arrests, except for one in which females were a whopping 69% of arrests. Which category, you ask? What was the singular category in which females are overrepresented?

Oh, just FUCKING PROSTITUTION.

I was so confused, at first I thought I made a mistake and was looking at adult arrests. Criminalizing and arresting prostituted people of any age is abhorrent, but I figured surely no one with a brain could justify arresting a child for being abused, right? Right?

Wrong. According to this data, in the US in 2019, nearly 300 minors were arrested for the "crime" of being sexually abused. 14% of those arrested were age 14 or younger. I then did some more research and discovered this information, provided by Shared Hope International:

As of the most recent SHI report, only 10 out of 50 US states have comprehensive safe harbor laws for sexually exploited prostituted minors. 28 out of 50 states have fully or partially comprehensive safe harbor laws. That means in 22 states, minors can still be criminalized for experiencing sexual abuse and trafficking. Not to mention the significant lack of states providing affirmative defense, which would help protect victims who harm or kill their abusers and traffickers. These laws and lack of protections are harmful to all victims of child trafficking, but especially target Black girls, who are incredibly vulnerable to childhood sex trafficking.

This information is honestly some of the most disgusting information I've ever learned. I did some more research into what can be done to help change this, this page from Shared Hope International seems like a good place to start. It helps you contact your governor, state legislators, and federal legislators in support of safe harbor laws, as well as other pieces of legislation meant to protect victims. Please, those of you in the US, take a moment out of your day and contact your representatives. Rights4girls also is doing some incredible work in this area, so check them out and maybe donate if you can. If anyone knows of any other charities that address this, especially ones outside of the US, please share them too. No child should EVER be arrested for being abused.

#I seriously cannot wrap my mind around this #arresting children for being sexually abused #hell world #feminism #radfem #radical feminism #radical feminists do interact #radical feminists please touch #radblr #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do touch #nordic model #nordic model now #sex trade #sex trade abolition #misogyny #misogynoir #my post

[anarcho-masochist]

When it comes to actually participating in activism, specifically among the younger/more online crowd, there's a large portion of people who are too worried about being perceived wrong or not knowing enough. Perhaps, as if there's some secret set of rules that, if broken, will cause niche local discourse of severity unknowable even to online micro-celebrities...but overall, many are concerned about not meeting unwritten criteria to be accepted or included.

The most effective way to be excluded from an activist group, on any place across the political spectrum, is to never attend in the first place. (Or never reach out, if attending isn't an option.)

#activism #politics #now tagging with my target audience even though this can apply to any group: #anarchism #anarchocommunism #anti cop #prison abolition #mutual aid #mental health activism #queer #leftism #leftist

[olreid]

i know i am a broken record on this point but like. no, not unless by "we" you mean literally every single character and creature in the entire neverafter. not that i can even begin to imagine how that would work. but otherwise this would just be the pc's getting authorial powers because they're the main characters, first of their respective stories and now of this show, and therefore becoming authors in their own right with all the horror that entails. these six specific characters might gain power over their lives, but the side and background characters who have fleshed out this world from the beginning will continue to be shuffled around against their will in whatever way best suits those with more narrative weight.

#and if youre gonna say well yeah but they would be a lot nicer about it than the authors were... i fear you have missed the point entirely #again and again i come back to: #if you take this world at its word when it tells us that characters are sentient then there is no moral way to preserve the story form. #hashtag narrative abolition now! #neverafter

[txttletale]

You're dancing around the question. You don't realize that what you're effectively saying is that the sexual abuse doesn't matter if it's not literal rape at gunpoint because you think kids have the ultimate power to consent. So your gotcha about CSA being mostly committed by authority figures is bad.

see the thing is that this is fucking nonsense. i very much believe that adults can be raped without direct violent coercion and that context can make nominal consent coercive -- it's a bizarre and nonsensical leap to ascribe to me the position of not believing the same thing about children. and now since we've both agreed that children can in fact be sexually abused we can once again return to my 'gotcha' of 'empowering children and allowing them self determination actually protects them from sexual abuse while paternalistic control over them enables it', which is quite good actually.

#ask #csa mention #come on now #family abolition does not entail treating children 'as adults' but rather 'as people'

[politicalprocrastinator]

Netflix said "hey does anyone want to watch soft porn about George iii" and didn't wait for an answer

#they're like here's a fit guy's arse #yes he is playing the guy that caused the american revolution #but now he's hot #like girlies truly #bridgerton #queen charlotte #this bitch delayed the abolition if the slave trade for 20 years #and was staunchly against prime minister pitt in the pro slavery side of parliament #but now he's fucking a black woman snd ending racism

[luulapants]

90% of the time working on carceral justice is so so rewarding and 10% of the time it's nearly unbearable. We literally punish people forever. You're out of prison, you're still being punished. Punishment is never over. The worst thing you ever did is the gravitational center of your whole life until you die. There's nothing you can do to make society stop punishing you. It's fucking bleak.

#prison abolition #incarceration #spent the weekend with a guy whose whole life is fucked because of something he did in high school... #he's 39 now

[bfpnola]

Hey! Better Future Program, Inc. (BFP) is officially looking for youth volunteers between the ages of 14 and 25 for our Administrative Staff! If you don't see a role that fits your interests, don't worry, we've got more positions listed in our Linktree!

And if you don't know who we are? Welcome! BFP is Black-, queer-, and woman-owned nonprofit, entirely run by youth! Since 2016, we've been accepting volunteers not just from Bulbancha (so-called New Orleans, Louisiana), but WORLDWIDE! Our mission is to globally expand peer-led political education, support, and imagination for marginalized youth!

To fulfill this goal, we offer over 3,000 free resources through our Liberation Library, design and execute mutual aid-based projects, and offer the safe space young activists need to ask questions and grow. If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, check out our International Youth Leadership Positions page in our bio!

Image description below.

[ID: All slides share the same background. There is a repeating list of BFP's guiding principles and core beliefs in translucent, all-white, capitalized letters. BFP's guiding principles include youth-centricity, self-liberation, transparency, accountability, horizontality, community, and intersectionality. BFP's core beliefs include the right to organize, educational equity, youth liberation, anti-racism, religious liberty, disability justice, climate action, decolonization, gender equity, queer/LGBTQ+ liberation, bodily autonomy, fat liberation, abolition, caste abolition, anti-authoritarianism, and anti-capitalism. A lime green to sky blue gradient overlays this list. A bold, white square frames the image with a white arrow pointing right in the bottom right corner.

Slide 1 reads: “LINK IN BIO. APPLY NOW! INTERNATIONAL YOUTH LEADERSHIP POSITIONS! REMOTE & IN-PERSON.” There is a BFP logo in the lefthand corner and the words “Part One” in the righthand corner, as this is the first of multiple posts showcasing open leadership positions.

Slide 2 reads: “Administrative Staff: Executive Assistants.

Responsibilities Include:

Co-facilitate communication and decision-making across volunteer committees

Note-taking during Zoom and Discord meetings on Notion

Interview and evaluate potential BFP applicants

Host virtual orientations for incoming youth volunteers

Time Commitment:

Other than our weekly 1.5-2 hr meeting, usually on Sundays, you're free to design your schedule around your tasks!

Requirements/Eligibility:

BFP prioritizes the leadership of marginalized communities. Tap the International Leadership Positions page in our Linktr.ee for more information! Link in bio @bfpnola :)" Slide 3 reads: "Administrative Staff: Communications Coordinators.

Responsibilities Include:

Develop and execute advertising campaigns

Manage BFP social media accounts (ex. Threads)

Establish brand recognition and awareness

Help design and distribute custom BFP merchandise

Plan and execute promotional events

Time Commitment:

Other than our weekly 1.5-2 hr meeting, usually on Sundays, you're free to design your schedule around your tasks!

Requirements/Eligibility:

BFP prioritizes the leadership of marginalized communities. Tap the International Leadership Positions page in our Linktr.ee for more information! Link in bio @bfpnola :)" Slide 4 reads: "Administrative Staff: Health Coordinators.

Responsibilities Include:

Develop and implement wellness and community bonding workshops for both volunteers & supporters

Provide resources and peer support to marginalized youth

Assess the successes and failures of our workload balance to prioritize the health of our volunteers, and develop alternatives with the help of our Chief Health Officer

Time Commitment:

Other than our weekly 1.5-2 hr meeting, usually on Sundays, you're free to design your schedule around your tasks!

Requirements/Eligibility:

BFP prioritizes the leadership of marginalized communities. Tap the International Leadership Positions page in our Linktr.ee for more information! Link in bio @bfpnola :)" Slide 5 reads: "Administrative Staff: Assistant Fundraising Managers.

Responsibilities Include:

Ensure that philanthropy and fundraising are kept consistent with our core values & beliefs

Develop and execute creative fundraising campaigns

Manage a portfolio of current and prospective donors

Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations and laws concerning giving

Time Commitment:

Other than our weekly 1.5-2 hr meeting, usually on Sundays, you're free to design your schedule around your tasks!

Requirements/Eligibility:

BFP prioritizes the leadership of marginalized communities. Tap the International Leadership Positions page in our Linktr.ee for more information! Link in bio @bfpnola :)"

/End ID.]

#reaux speaks #volunteer #anti capitalism #abolition #mad liberation #bipoc #youth liberation #queer #trans #university #high school #new orleans #international #decolonization #communism #socialism #education #leftist #apply now #hiring

[panstarry]

abolition now, linocut, 2022

#abolition #pan draws #pan designs #linocut #relief print #ok thats enough tagging. this one was from may lets give it up for may. & then i ran it thru the letterpress like uhh 2 months ago for fun #thats where the slight blue -> purple gradient comes from I HEART YOU LETTERPRESS!!!! #one of my first times carving letters ahhhhh i can do it better now i promith. completely freehanded that shit

[hussyknee]

Context: 18 year old settler activist refuses to join the IOF and accepts 30 day jail term, to be renewed each month if he keeps refusing. This can go on for over a year. Western allies fall over themselves calling him a hero.

Palestinians object to this, saying refusal to help murder their families is the bare minimum. Conscientious objectors have always existed but they rarely take the extra step to educate themselves about Palestinian liberation instead of indulging in empty feel-good rhetoric about "peace" instead of justice. Choosing jail is more often than not about expunging their own guilt and going on with their lives instead of being active allies to the Palestinian cause. Exceptionalising settlers for voluntarily accepting the lightest punishment of a carceral system designed to break Palestinians simply for existing, is to decenter and erase their own struggle.

Cue "allies" losing their entire shit.

#because every week lasts a year now this thread is kinda old #i planned to post it last week but forgot #honestly blows my mind. it doesn't have to be a genocide i'm absolutely not going to kill people just bc my govt wants me to #yes i will sit in jail bc the alternative is becoming a hired murderer for the scum of the earth. this is not the hard choice #free palestine #israeli settlers #conscientious objector #carceral state #abolition #white liberals #shit liberals say #racism #anti blackness #islamophobia #acab #white allies #western leftists #colonialism #decolonization #gaza genocide #social justice #anarchism #state violence #conscription #fuck israel #liberal zionists #anti zionism #white privilege #class war #knee of huss

[trans-axolotl]

this time last year, it was my seventh week institutionalized and it was one of the hardest weeks to survive. one of my dear friends said later that they saw the light completely go out of my eyes, and i think it was the week i cried the most. i remember desperately wanting to go outside, and feeling so much despair about not being able to experience the last few days of summer outside. i felt violated. it was finally starting to sink in that i was going to spend several more months locked up, and the extent to which my autonomy was taken away.

and then another patient who could go outside brought me back a pinecone, and i nearly started sobbing. that tiny kindness meant everything. even despite all the violence of confinement, we found ways to exist together.

today i walked outside and saw so, so many pinecones. it's been a year, and i survived, and all i can think is how much love i have for fellow psych survivors and how much i wish we were all free.

#personal #psych ward tw #medical abuse tw #psych survivor #surviving psych #psych abolition #antipsych #mad liberation #the friend who gave me the pinecone is instituionalized right now. i love her and i miss her so much #texted her today. going to try to send her a gift package if the facility allows it