Ableism is innately anti-Black. It takes capitalist norms of productivity and judges us according to our ability to create value for someone other than ourselves. Likewise, ableism imparts a deplorable quality to our perception of rest. …

Content warning: generalized ableism, abuse apologism, relational violence mentions Why is Co-Optation Reactionary? Living under neoliberal fascism poses a specific existential threat to everyone who dreams of liberatory structures. On the one hand, the push for normalcy continues to become increasingly lethal during an ongoing pandemic alongside the growing scope…

The mechanisms of capitalism are always safely housed within the domain of electoral politics. Electoralism invites us to legitimize state violence. Each party compels voters to tow a line, and each party line designates certain violences as necessary. Most of those violences overlap. Just as imperialism exists to ensure that…

As Fascist normalcy brute forces its way into everyday life, liberal opportunism is settling into more and more obvious patterns of behavior that are worth noting as the election spectacle re-emerges in political discourse. These are patterns that have been identified decade after decade by those of us who have…

Here is the afterward to my new zine that launches this October! This version appears here with some content edited out for safety reasons, but the unchanged version will appear in the printed zine! …

Everything relating to mass abuse apologism that we have discussed so far is evidence of an overarching collective care crisis that has made our prospects for surviving this fascist period far less favorable. If we zoom out of this specific part of a larger arsenal of patriarchal violence, we will…

Pushing back is to apply force to something that is exerting a force upon you. During this fascist period consisting of multiple crises, we are all having lethal forces directed at us and many of us are being crushed alive. Despite this harrowing predicament, we all find ourselves in, why…

(This piece is best read as a follow-up to “Is Transformative Justice A Sunken Ship”) There are many reasons that people in formal hierarchical positions of power choose to continue intergenerational harms and neglect those of us in the margins. These positions are officially recognized by the state, meaning their…

A reassessment of Transformative Justice movement work is long overdue. Like the rest of the world, this subsection of prison abolition finds itself in a new cultural context that’s resulted from new and historic conditions. …