Gabrielle

lawyer and prison abolitionist, but let's start with the prisons

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

fuck this is gonna take a while

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

@NRekai I'd love to take this one but its gotta be first person so, if you please...WHAT HAPPENED?

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

a tragic fact of our existence is that, while theoretically it is the ideal duplexity of consumables, practically speaking there is only like a 45 minute window in a day where an affogato really makes sense

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

Sadly I cannot leave Twitter without sharing the reverse image search results of men v women supreme court justices

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

People bragging about their lil free range eggs from their lil homestead chicken coups like no offense but yall dont have a coldblooded murderer for a dog and it shows

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

@6BenHarrison I'm not comfortable with this

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

@FrontBurnerCBC doing a borderline promotional episode for Ozempic uncritically premised on the presumption that obesity is a disease that needs to be cured and weightloss is necessarily good is absolutely wild in the year 2023. Like what r u guys doin over there

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

@trex_lasar

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

@audreyeassad I will take mine in the form of one of those tiktoks where you tell me a long winded unrelated story while you make your way through your skincare routine

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

me experiencing the ever-allusive Capricorn self-love realizing that I would be an absolute pleasure to audit

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

@saint__maybe it might...

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

people love being like "support incarcerated/formerly incarcerated folks!" and then being APPALLED to learn they have done crimes

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

@caseyrlynch Casey I just want you to know this continues to be one of the most meaningful pieces of info I have ever received

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

Anyone else try and get screenshots of nytcooking recipes in the split second before the "subscribe to read" message pops up?

If not, ur welcome.

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

Weird media focus on how the LTB is clogged due to it's own intractable dysfunction and like ya the system is terrible but the shit its clogged with is bad faith evictions by landlords who know they can triple rent on the next tenant that a rent cap would virtually eliminate.

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

"The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) employs about 1.2 staff members for each incarcerated person and spends almost $190,000 a year per prisoner, Zinger said, putting it among the best-financed agencies in the world."

https://t.co/pgtIDi6wCF

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. This is a thread about a "crime wave" that you barely hear about in the daily national news or on local tv every night. A crime wave by corporate landlords. It's important to understand what is happening, and also who benefits from the media not treating it as urgent.

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

Love to start my day listening to @CBCNews reporting on problem of LTB delays by interviewing a property owner finding it takes too long to throw someone out of their home without noting that rent prices have doubled in the past 2 years in the whole province and no one can move

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

Just elderly coworkers things:
- annotated google maps print out.
- cute lil cursive font just for the name part of their email signature.
- will never see my tweets about them.

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

Also 40% is an ASTRONOMICAL proportion that should not ever be normalized.

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

Something I think is helpful in terms of thinking about reconciliation is acknowledging where direct lines can be drawn whenever possible rather than deferring to sometimes nebulous catch-alls.

[Gabrielle @garblerelle]

Because in 3 years I have worked with hundreds of prisoners and, I've said it before, but I have still literally never met someone serving a really long sentence who wasnt abused and traumatized as a child.