#kabas

[l5-gbsdehorizon]

Voor het eerst Kabas verkend.

En al goed wat Kwetons verdiend!

💰

[sentientsky]

just a friendly reminder that, just because slavery was formally "abolished" in the so-called united states* in 1865, enslavement itself is still ongoing in the form of incarceration, which disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous people

(*i say "so-called" because the US is a settler-colonial construction founded on greed, extraction, and white supremacy) recommended readings/resources:

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

"How the 13th Amendment Kept Slavery Alive: Perspectives From the Prison Where Slavery Never Ended" by Daniele Selby

"So You're Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist" by Mariame Kaba

"The Case for Prison Abolition: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Racial Capitalism & Decarceration" from Democracy Now! [VIDEO]

[zegalba]

Katsuhiro Otomo: 'Kaba' Artbook (1988)

[sneakystorms]

It's so ass backwards... When you kill someone it should be on you to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that they posed a danger to you, and not on the other side to prove that you were in no danger... There is more proof needed to CHARGE a cop for murder (not even convict, just bring to court to determine if they're guilty) than to commit murder in the first place

[lilcommissionsopen]

カイバ

[photographss-world]

Birazcık çocukluğumuza gidelim dedim keyifli mutlu pazarlar olsun inşallah 🤗☕🫖🌹

[oncewild]

Excerpt from interview with Mariame Kaba:

It became a mantra for me in terms of when I would feel unmoored. Or when I would feel overwhelmed by what was going on in the world, I would just say to myself: “Hope is a discipline.” It’s less about “how you feel,” and more about the practice of making a decision every day, that you’re still gonna put one foot in front of the other, that you’re still going to get up in the morning. And you’re still going to struggle, that that was what I took away from it....

It’s work to be hopeful....you have to actually put in energy, time, and you have to be clear-eyed, and you have to hold fast to having a vision. It’s a hard thing to maintain. But it matters to have it, to believe that it’s possible, to change the world....

I learned from my father that you may have big dreams and big visions. And you have to prepare for the day after the revolution. And even when you do that, it’s not guaranteed that things are going to go as you had hoped. So what’s the next best thing you can do from where you are? For you, in this moment, in this possibility space that you have, what’s the next best thing? And it’s such a grounding question. Because it doesn’t tell you: What’s the next 17 things that you need to do to get from where you are to where you need to go? It’s: What’s the next best step to take?

[vitagraphia]

Mariame Kabe // Art by Olly Costello (2023)

[elwenyere]

-- Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes, from Let This Radicalize You

[shealwaysreads]

If anyone is looking for things to read, Haymarket Books is giving away 10 free ebooks - a really diverse group of brilliant writers and thinkers to inspire and inform at a tricky fuckin time in the world! You can get books here - though you might need to register 👍

[explvrer]

'hope is a discipline' - mariame kaba on dismantling the carceral state

[mindofserenity]

Home truly is magnificent ‎سبحان الله

[lotussokka]

inspired by my own tags on this excellent post

[spitblaze]

LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU RATHER THAN LEAD YOU TO DESPAIR

[lilcommissionsopen]

Kaba & Chroniko

[pasteldenatas]

Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes & Mariam Kaba (2023)