The Masking Abolitionist

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?

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? dnyuz.com/2025/03/16/we-…

@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.

@UghitsAnjali We mandated masks through the whole two days of debate! We only took them off to eat and drink, and then for the three minutes or less it took to take the picture.

helluva a lotta white ppl w no masks. no matter where or who you org with, ask yourself why the most vulnerable aren't organising w you. even if you have disabled ppl in your group, you dont have folks that need masks. also, always question the racial makeup re inclusivity

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.

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?

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.

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.

can we love ourselves enough to feel safe admitting when we were wrong? soiltjp.org/blog/new-years…

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?

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.

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.

@ 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

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🙃

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. wordpress.com/post/maskingab…