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