While jail cells overflow and people are killed in custody -this government (and others) is patting itself on the back for running a violent system.

National Corrections Day is not a neutral celebration. It is carceral copaganda, pure and simple.
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To frame Corrections staff as “changing lives” while communities are being torn apart by incarceration is tone deaf at best, and vile at worst. Prisons don’t reduce harm - they create it.
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Let's talk about prison labour.

Coercive labour in prisons is exploitation, plain & simple. It’s a modern-day extension of slavery, driven by racial capitalism that constructs people—particularly Aboriginal people—as disposable.

Here’s how this system works 👇🏾 Racial capitalism disposes of those it deems undesirable, sequestering them away in prisons, detention centres, mental institutions. Yet, paradoxically, the same people declared ‘surplus’ are made essential to the very system that cages them.
#PrisonLaborExploitation

I want to talk about the way non criminalised people wield criminalised people’s criminal records like swords in an attempt to discredit the work we are currently doing, to steal our power, to attempt to force us into exile & to further punish us.

Buckle up - this is a thread Earlier this week I made a comment about feminism, & the ways it can harm us. Specifically, the ways in which certain forms of feminism marginalises certain people, & upholds the system many feminists benefit from, the very system many of us are determined to abolish

I’ve been thinking about the abolition movement in this country. About how as a criminalised person we are expected to play a certain role in the movement & if we step outside of that role, we are punished-punished by the very people who call themselves abolitionists *ironic*
🧵 The role we are expected to play is one of the contrite actor who knows their place in the movement. We are allowed to inform but never to know. We can never ever show up with our intellect, our truth or THE truth (I learnt that one the bloody hard way)
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I see it all the time on twitter. The question gets thrown at fellow abolitionists like an arrow meant to wound: “but what are you going to do with all of the rapists & murderers?”

🧵 The question “What about the murderers & rapists?” is kinda lazy. It doesn’t require people to think deeply about community, about harm & trauma & it doesn’t require us to imagine accountability outside of the system white supremacy forces upon us