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Updated Bust Cards for BLM protesters in the UK! Please save these to your phones if your are attending. Legal Observers will also be handing these out at the Protests!
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The only time Iβve felt erased as a lesbian is when anti trans activists have shouted me down and sent me the vilest abuse whenever I express support for my trans siblings. Never once have trans women treated me with the ferocity of the straight people claiming to be saving me.
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3) reducing the capacity of the existing state to inflict harm upon communities as we hold political power within our own communities to impose the changes we want upon the existing system. It's not about electing officials & giving our power up to those people to represent us
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more things that are a part of the abolitionist process:
1) dismantling systems of oppression: racial capitalism/imperialism, racism, military, police, prisons, cishetpatriarchy, settler colonialism, ableism, Empire, the capitalist state
2) building new systems of kindship & care
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Here are some things that are a part of an abolitionist process:
1) defunding police & other non-reformist reforms
2) communities developing new modes of non-carceral/non-punitive justice (transformative justice, etc)
3) developing new ways to prevent harm in community
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Here are some things that abolition does not mean:
1) reform
2) a new kind of police
3) getting rid of police and leaving jails, prisons, military & capitalism in tact
4) a one time event
5) something the capitalist state can enact as a policy fix, or hold as a process
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I am not an expert on abolition. I'm a student of abolitionism. But I can tell you this. As someone who has studied it pretty intensively for about 5 years now: a lot of these people who are using the word abolition right now, do not even know what it means.
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BEWARE - POLICE INTELLIGENCE GATHERERS are operating in Piccadilly Gardens. They will attempt to talk to you and are trained to be your friends. #BLMprotest #blmmcr #mcrblm #manchester #6thjune #BlackLivesMatterΒ #nocomment
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just an fyi curfews were created because the protests were so peaceful and law enforcement needed a reason to advance on people -- by being out past curfew, they could find protesters unlawful, even for peaceful protest
I have been away from this twitter account for a while but sharing this for a friend. Content warning for police violence and brutality; racism and ableism. Please share and donate what you can.
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I'm always surprised that not everyone with #ADHD knows about RSD (Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria) and it's like, a real important part of having ADHD. Let's break it down!
Once lockdown ends we're going to be annoyed at colleagues for sending emails that could have been an in person meeting
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Officially peaked with the weird quarantine dreams last night. Dreamt that my girlfriend got a job leading a top secret global network of furries and was holding a weekly furry quiz broadcast in secret locations across the globe.
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Queer solidarity is my lesbian flatmate calling me to her room because there is a view of an attractive man making a BBQ in a garden a few doors down. Gay quarantine rights πΊ
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Our Acute mental health intervention protocol is now live- if you're looking for a framework for helping out a friend who's in crisis, you can do much worse than RAISED:
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