Just heard a phrase applied to abuse: “The axe forgets but the tree remembers.”
I’m gonna go crawl under a weighted blanket now.
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I love that every time one of my posts about whiteness blows up, there is at least one fragile white person who says some shit like “I know enough to recognize when someone is chasing clout and not living from actual experience.”I love that every time one of my posts about whiteness blows up, there is at least one fragile white person who says some shit like “I know enough to recognize when someone is chasing clout and not living from actual experience.”
Meanwhile I have a whole writing career I don’t talk about because I got sick of the publicity. People still try to start fights with my deadname from Al Jazeera essays I wrote a decade ago.
Like bitch clout is chasing ME.
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Okay #BlackMastodon, I want to find Black artists.Okay #BlackMastodon, I want to find Black artists. Where they at? Individuals, collectives, whatever. Help a girl out.
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People think practices like restorative justice are ways to be “soft on crime.” Even left-leaning people.People think practices like restorative justice are ways to be “soft on crime.” Even left-leaning people. Especially white, left leaning people. Because our views on “crime” are even based in anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism.
You don’t practice restorative justice to “let criminals get off scott free.” You practice restorative justice to build your society’s ability to approach social problem from a restorative foundation.