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a man was murdered today in Missouri.
systems are what they do. and this one destroys people.
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Liams toxicology report is so sad :( the hotel employee needs to go to jail
I really couldn't disagree more with this actually, I don't support putting people in cages and I certainly don't see how that would help anyone at all. Just as I wished for Liam to have the opportunity to access the grace and care that would have allowed him to get to a place where he wasn't hurting anyone, I wish for that hotel employee to live in an economic system where they don't need to procure drugs for rich people to get by, and I don't think punishing them for what happened will help anyone any more than I think punishing Liam legally would have helped anyone, or that the ways he was punished did help him or anyone else.
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An adoption abolitionist’s plea:
Don’t say your for-profit artwork has been “adopted”.
Don’t advertise your portraits with cutesy phrases like “Isn’t Uwu Smolbean Rag Doll Doodlybunz peachy keen? Adopt her today for just $299!”
Don’t call buying an inanimate friggin object “an adoption”.
Doubt I’ll be heard by many. But I’ll keep saying this stuff til kept people who claim progressive and leftist values begin to comprehend that countless millions of actual living, breathing people in this world have been bought and sold as infants or children and it AIN’T FUCKIN CUTE.
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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!
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there is no such thing as a good cop. not even your relative/loved one. fuck em all.
Cops are trained to be bad. Anyone who insists on being good is not welcome.
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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
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Calling Lesbians' attraction to vaginas a mere genital "preference" erases the sheer violence behind corrective rape of millions of sapphic women. I do not just "dislike" dick, I am physically incapable of being attracted to it. My allure to the female genitilia is not a choice, it's my biological reality. Dismissal of same-sex attraction as a choice reinforces the homophobic ideology that attractions can be altered and also paves the way for discrimination. One cannot opt out of their sexuality, they are always born with it.
#I am physically repulsed by dicks#And the reason is because i am a Lesbian#Not because i have some sort of trauma or discriminative bone or whatever bs tras say#Tras calling homosexuality a choice is what peaked me tbh#The only reason i supported trans people was because i was friends with great tifs lol#And with a LOT of tirfs on edtwt#Im greatful to them for introducing me to radical feminism but now im confused why would you be a tirf#No point in it#rad fem#radblr#radical feminism#terfsafe#radical feminists do interact#radical feminists do touch#trans exclusionary radical feminist#radical feminist safe#female seperatism#women are the superior sex#terfblr#terfism#terf#gender critical#gender abolition#sex not gender#sapphic#wlw#Lesbian#wlw post#lesbianism#anti trans
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I’ll never forget when I was arguing with a person in favor of total prison abolition and I asked them “what about violent offenders?�� And they said “Well, in a world where prisons have been abolished, we’ll have leveled the playing field and everyone will have their basic needs met, and crime won’t be as much of an issue.” And then I was like “okay. But…no. Because rich people also rape and murder, so it isn’t just a poor person thing. So what will we do about that?” And I don’t think they answered me after that. I’m ashamed to say I continued to think that the problem was that I simply didn’t understand prison abolitionists enough and that their point was right in front of me, and it would click once I finally let myself understand it. It took me a long time to realize that if something is going to make sense, it needs to make sense. If you want to turn theory into Praxis (I’m using that word right don’t correct me I’ll vomit) everyone needs to be on board, which mean it all needs to click and it needs to click fast and fucking clear. You need to turn a complex idea into something both digestible and flexible enough to be expanded upon. Every time I ask a prison abolitionist what they actually intend to do about violent crime, I get directed to a summer reading list and a BreadTuber. It’s like a sleight-of-hand trick. Where’s the answer to my question. There it is. No wait, there it is. It’s under this cup. No it isn’t. “There’s theory that can explain this better than I can.” As if most theory isn’t just a collection of essays meant to be absorbed and discussed by academics, not the average skeptic. “Read this book.” And the book won’t even answer the question. The book tells you to go ask someone else. “Oh, watch this so-and-so, she totally explains it better than me.” Why can’t you explain it at all? Why did you even bring it up if you were going to point me to someone else to give me the basics that you should probably already know? Maybe I’m just one of those crazy people who thinks that some people need to be kept away from the public for everyone’s good. Maybe that just makes me insane. Maybe not believing that pervasive systemic misogyny could be solved with a UBI and a prayer circle makes me a bad guy. But it’s not like women’s safety is a priority anyway. It’s not like there is an objective claim to be made that re-releasing violent offenders or simply not locking them up is deadly.
#I’m sorry#there are just people out here who need punishment and to be contained and rehabilitation will not work#like I’m one of the more insane people who thinks that you can rehabilitate anyone if they want to change and learn from their behavior#ANYONE#but there are people out here who do not and will not ever want it#and those people shouldn’t get a pass because you read incomplete abolitionist theory once#and now you think that a UBI would solve everything#that’s the thing about most abolitionists that I’ve noticed#once you press them on the hard shit#they go#well there are some good books on the subject#there are some other creators#okay#and what have those other books and creators said?#Tee Noir once started off a video telling people not to ask her to defend her defense of prison abolition#they should just ‘Google it’ she said (or something like that)#now I don’t watch Tee Noir#gothra#feminism#social justice#prison abolition#criminal justice#prison reform#tw vomit
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hey y’all
Robert Roberson is about to be executed on October 17 in Texas. Yet another innocent person will face the death penalty, despite prejudicial testimony and an unproven theory.
please take the time to call or email using this form from Innocence Project. it takes like 2 minutes.
read more about his case and why the courts in Texas need to change here:
#robert roberson#abolition now#abolish the death penalty#texas#texas news#news#us news#gamers of tumblr#you know what to do#abolish the prison industrial complex
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ALSO if prisoners could get educated then prisons could run themselves more reliably and function like communities which is conducive to a growing/healing/learning/absolving mindset
#sorry i just have so many opinions on prison abolition thanks to being the child of a prisoner#former prisoner#tho prison basically ruined his life forever and now he's a crazy old man#what did he go to prison for?? a few things but most damning was when we has like 19-22 or something he stole a car to impress a girl#he also lit it on fire which I will admit is worse but#a 19 year old kid (who got kicked out at 16 mind you) just trying to impress a girl and he went to prison for basically his whole 20s#he did uh. he did actually allegedly escape at one point but my aunt turned him back in. snitch#anyway yeah#i was born when he was 34 and like a handful of years if not months out at most#i was an accident rebound baby but then he ended up being a single father lmfao#said it taught him more than prison ever could#if you read all these tags that turned into a rant have a cookie
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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
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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
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i think far too many of you do not realize that if the democratic party loses in november it will be because of their failure in campaigning and refusal to listen to their constituents and not because the Tumblr Leftist Furries abstained from voting or voted third party
#politics#uspol#us politics#like ppl have been begging for an arms embargo for a whole year now. what do dems do? they send more bombs#it is not hard to not aid and abet war crimes i fear. especially when the majority of your voters Do Not Want That#plus like. they took medicare for all off the policy platform. they took abolition of the death penalty off the policy platform#they’ve backtracked on campaign promises like banning fracking and a kinder border policy#like the party stands for deadass nothing and you SHOULD be mad that this is the farthest left we can get
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It turns out that I never research because it makes me think the details are the point instead of the story.
The story is the point! It doesn't matter if I don't have an entire world with all its history and cultural and political customs realistically fleshed out! Focus on the story and fill in the details later!
#adventures in writing#shadowstruck#sooo...yeah#shadowstruck not doing the greatest#because i decided to read slave narratives to get background for what cultures are like#where some humans are not considered people#and first off it's even worse than you'd think#(you'd think you know right? we know the horrors. but the banal details of daily life make it worse)#but also enslavement non-personhood doesn't always quite map to medical non-personhood#and i'm not sure if the two fit together in a coherent way in thus world#and also now it's got me thinking#'clearly i can't write this because i haven't figured out centuries of history'#'and all the varying philosophies that have shaped the current political and social zeitgeist'#'and the entire history of the abolition movement'#and that is stupid because it's supposed to be the story of one girl who gets swept up in political controversy#and about whether she can have a life or a family again#i really need to try to pare this down to a family narrative as much as possible#rather than aiming for intricate political drama#it can be exciting and emotional! stop trying to be clever and dull!
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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
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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
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