The law effectively legitimizes citizen policing of pregnancy and abortion, which have previously been policed primarily by the government and abusive partners. CW: lynching, anti-Black violence, miscarriage, feticide By Kylie Cheung A Texas abortion ban signed into law earlier this year became one of dozens of disastrous, dehumanizing abortion bills in the state, and could...
Category: Abolition
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ACAB Means ALL Agents of the State, Regardless of Their Politics or Identity
It’s not just cops in riot gear that we have to fight to win abolition—it’s the whole damn system. Even when bad people are targeted by the state, it increases the state’s legitimacy. ACAB. You’ve likely seen the phrase on buildings or at least in a few Twitter bios. It means “all cops are bastards”...
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Reproductive and Disability Justice Demand Abolition
It’s not just history — reproductive coercion by the government and criminal justice system is an ongoing reality. CW: mentions of miscarriage, reproductive violence/coercion, and sexual violence/r*pe By Kylie Cheung In a world dominated by celebrity, few cultural moments can be more eye-opening to the oppressions of marginalized people than a horror story of someone...
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Derek Chauvin’s Guilty Verdict Won’t End Police Violence
Individualizing the system by blaming these actions on a single bad cop like Derek Chauvin misses the point entirely. Getting one violent police officer off the streets doesn’t do anything to stop police violence because policing is violent. CW: policing, murder, Black death Yesterday, after about 10 hours of deliberation, the jury found Derek Chauvin...
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Abolition Now: Black and Brown Children Will Never Be Protected By The State
The police don’t need any help demonizing Black and brown children. Society and the state treat them as older than they are, dangerous, irredeemable, and disposable. CW: policing, state violence, murder of Black and brown people, racism On March 29, police chased 13-year-old Adam Toledo into an alley around 2:30 A.M. After a seconds-long interaction,...
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Ending Anti-Asian Violence Requires Eliminating Anti-Blackness and Carcerality
Much of the conversation and advocacy surrounding anti-Asian racism has failed to connect it with anti-Blackness, and has itself been mired in carceral and anti-Black thinking. By Jordana Allen-Shim Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a massive spike in documented cases of anti-Asian violence. A February 9 report from Stop AAPI Hate, “the...
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The Slave Harriet Would’ve Shot: On Killing the Abolition Mammy
They will make you an abolition mammy for the sake of everyone else’s freedom and extract your sacrifices from your flesh to build the world after this one. After the abolition mammy is sacrificed, what is left of the world? By Hunter Shackelford I am the slave Harriet would’ve shot. I am the slave who...