Police can’t save children from sexual abuse, but we must
With inadequate responses to CSA and little trust in police among people of color, relying on cops to address an issue like CSA is questionable, at best.
Liberals won’t save us, even if they are Black
But voting is not and will never be enough. Voting often legitimizes the never ending good cop/bad cop routine of the two party system.
No bad apples: Actors in anti-Black systems have created too much collective harm to be judged individually
It feels too enormous a task to mourn so many at once.
We protect us: Why the state will never solve the epidemic of missing and trafficked Black women & girls
State institutions such as the police, and child welfare services are often complicit in sexual violence enacted upon Black women and girls.
Yes, we can’t: Undoing Obama’s regulation of Black political imagination
Obama’s pleas for moderation and restraint rely on discrediting and outright condemning the political imagination of younger Black people in the U.S., those largely responsible for his election.
Prison “reform” is useless unless it pushes for freedom and dignity for *everyone*
Prison reform continues to be structured around arbitrary definitions of who does and doesn’t deserve humane treatment
How do we maintain abolitionist principles in cases of sexual assault?
The solution to repairing the development of my healing was not to believe solely in the idea of restoring the justice system but to support the transformation of justice entirely.
“Abolition begins with imagination, but it certainly does not end there”: An interview with ‘Neptune’ playwright Timothy DuWhite
By Hari Ziyad On July 13th, poet, writer, RaceBaitR deputy editor, performance artist and playwright Timothy DuWhite’s one-man show Neptune had its world premiere at Dixon Place in NYC, during the venue’s annual HOT! Festival: The NYC Celebration of Queer…
A world “too far”: Aziz Ansari’s assault scandal and why #MeToo needs prison abolition
By Shondrea Thornton When news of Aziz Ansari’s alleged sexual assault began to spread, I chalked it up as just another drop in the trough of Hollywood revelations in recent months. Ansari, whose fame is tied to his ability to…
Where are all the women when we talk about prison?
By Ashley Denay (We gonna show ya'll the meaning of black love) When he havin' a bad day I fill up the bathtub (She put on the oven mitt, be cooking up mad grub) Got beef with a nigga, put…
