The Masking Abolitionist

i write about abolition, covid, and all the ways i try to learn and grow and be a better person. check out my site. thanks for being here.

[The Masking Abolitionist @MaskedAbolition]

we have to reckon with our own desire to treat covid like it’s over for the sake of our own convenience. if this is how we treat the current pandemic, how are we going to respond to the next one?

[The Masking Abolitionist @MaskedAbolition]

when we’re thinking about the open coverup of the likely possibility that covid came to exist because of lab neglect, how are we going to take care of our communities when we’re almost definitely going to face more man-made pandemics? https://t.co/Z1Z4jkESDc

[The Masking Abolitionist @MaskedAbolition]

@becomingidea @UghitsAnjali I’m not sure if you’re reading replies to this anymore, but I would love to know more about how you came to the consensus to require masks at the event, and whether it was agreed upon when it was okay to take them off? I’m genuinely curious what the process looked like.

[The Masking Abolitionist @MaskedAbolition]

we aren't approaching justice if we aren't thinking about all these things, individually and within our communities. we're only recreating carceral conditions with abolitionist language.

[The Masking Abolitionist @MaskedAbolition]

there's a pathway through the forest of abolition that leads us to evading accountability. the same behaviors that the WSCCAP fosters in us can be fostered within the langauge of transformative justice. even if our conclusions sound radical, we must think critically about them.

[The Masking Abolitionist @MaskedAbolition]

in what ways could our conclusions not be as radical as they sound when we say them? in what ways could we be obstructing our own view of fallacies in our logic? in what ways could we be making assumptions that would critically change our conclusions?

[The Masking Abolitionist @MaskedAbolition]

sitting in a restaurant waiting for my to-go order, looking around at the beautiful tables, warm atmosphere and lovely music. miss eating in so much. wonder if i’ll ever be able to do it again.

[The Masking Abolitionist @MaskedAbolition]

can we love ourselves enough to feel safe admitting when we were wrong? https://t.co/Cpuf6quenR

[The Masking Abolitionist @MaskedAbolition]

thinking about how Mia Mingus articulates that we’re supposed to fuck up and be defensive. it’s a normal human thing to do. when we reflect though, where do we find ourselves? can we have the strength to regret when we’ll inevitably try to avoid accountability?

[The Masking Abolitionist @MaskedAbolition]

and as we move through that feeling, we should learn from it. we should put our heads together (and that may take time for those directly involved but the surrounding community for sure) & figure out what went wrong and how it could have been stopped before it got to that point.

[The Masking Abolitionist @MaskedAbolition]

we're all human and that means we'll hurt each other, but it's so sad when abolitionists contribute to the violence we're fighting against. when we traumatize each other, when our actions lead to crises, it's such a tragedy that we should deeply mourn and regret.

[Vivian @suchnerve]

@ bearded ppl

can’t believe i’m just now hearing about this, but you can get a face mask to seal properly WITHOUT HAVING TO SHAVE by first tying an elastic exercise band around your beard (tied at the crown of your head)

the research was done by Sikh doctors because they rule

[The Masking Abolitionist @MaskedAbolition]

had to make my username "MaskedAbolition" instead of "MaskingAbolition" cuz it's just a tad bit too long. surely that won't come back to bite me with branding🙃

[The Masking Abolitionist @MaskedAbolition]

new post: Are we cancelling us? thoughts about cancel culture and how we're gonna handle intimate and interpersonal violence in this world in an abolitionist way. https://t.co/rpzWBbkuwh