Holding this vision inside of movements right now has meant feeling not just for what is punitive, but for where there is gleeful othering, revenge, or punishment of others, particularly when these things deepen our belonging to each other, usually briefly, until we too fuck up.

The first and biggest thing is that call outs never feel powerful to me as a move to resolve conflict, especially when that conflict is unveiled without the consent of both or all parties in the dispute. Call outs don’t work for addressing misunderstandings, issuing critiques, or resolving contradiction. Call outs feel most powerful when they are u

We do not believe we can navigate conflict and struggle in principled ways.

Who benefits from my self-doubt?

I think everyone chooses each day to move towards life or away from it, though some don’t realize that they are making the choice. Capitalism makes it hard to see your own direction.

“Abolition is about presence, not absence. It’s about building life-affirming institutions.” —Ruth Wilson Gilmore

principled struggle is when we are struggling for the sake of something larger than ourselves and are honest and direct with each other while holding compassion.2 It is when we take responsibility for our own feelings and actions and seek deeper understanding before responding (by asking questions, or reading the referenced materials). It is when w

Sometimes we don’t even realize we have caused harm, because supremacy is a numbing and narrowing disease. I want us to let go of the narrowness of innocence, widen our understanding of how harm moves through us.9 I want us to see individual acts of harm as symptoms of systemic harm, and to do what we can do collectively to dismantle the systems an

People getting to name what caused hurt, where the conflict is, what is needed; people receiving an authentic apology; people getting to commit to paths of unlearning harmful belief systems and behaviors.