Tag archives: social justice

No More Police: A Case for Abolition

by Mariame Kaba, Andrea J. Ritchie

Police in the U.S. consume [close to] $130 billion a year…Carceral logics normalize policing and punishment in response to social problems rather than collective care and mutual support.

Police violence is not counted in the crime stats periodically trotted out to justify their existence—even though … Read more

Designing Regenerative Food Systems: And Why We Need Them Now

by Marina O’Connell

Compiles an array of transformative food system models and practices. The abundance of overlapping information does make it difficult to not include some repetition, and it’s not free of periodic political mildness. It’s an admirable synthesis of constellating ideas to offset greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, climate … Read more

Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back

by Julia Serano

There are a lot of training wheels and an unnecessary, iterative spelling out of harmful stereotypes particularly in chapter 7, but also some solid analogies and models, especially about unwanted attention (being marked as a spectacle), derivatization (being flattened to a projected single dimension), stigma, and contagion.