Disposable Human

Some people say they’re abolitionists until life asks them to actually practice it.

If cops can be suspended WITH PAY while being investigated for killing Blak fullas, then every other person suspected of a crime can continue to receive their welfare payments
FFS

Who needs horror movies when we have MyGov, gammin abolitionists, and Centrelink hold music?
Welcome to the haunted house- no jump scares, just structural violence.

Time to spill the tea

We practice abolition in the tiny moments, in the quiet rebellions: asking the real question, staying for the long answer, holding space for messy humanity.

These lines are little offerings, soft weapons against a world that wants us hardened & silent.
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I want to say something clearly. If you come to my page thinking you’re “outing” me or exposing my criminal record, you’re not revealing anything new. What you are revealing is how comfortable you are reproducing the punishment logic of the state.

I talk about how charity & carceral logic collide, so let’s look at this post by @SecondChancesSA

When an organisation that claims to support children of people in prison starts posting name & shame content, with sirens & surveillance stills, it’s not just hypocrisy, it’s harm.
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Beyond punishment and restrictive practices, calls for a more caring society *** Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and references to people who have died

“This language of “care” & “safety” has become the moral cover for violence. These are sites built on control, warehouses for those our society has deemed too old, too “mad”, too disabled, or too dangerous to be free.”

www.croakey.org/beyond-punis...

Prisons don’t solve poverty; they sustain it. They strip people of everything, profit from their labour, and then release them back into deeper poverty.

Let’s start talking about the economic and moral cost of funding punishment instead of care.
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As Anti-Poverty Week unfolds, we need to talk about the part of poverty the public conversation always avoids: the prison system.

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Heyyyyy everyone in Adelaide
Please join me this weekend to make/write Christmas cards for people in prison this Christmas 🎄
It’s a drop in session, so come for an hour or come for the whole session. All materials provided.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!

What’s left out are the intersections: race, class, gender, disability, and criminalisation. I’d really like us to start talking about what gets erased when we keep talking about poverty without complexity, and about why that erasure matters.
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These stories flatten lived realities into neat categories that policymakers can manage: stories that soothe rather than confront, that individualise structural violence instead of naming it.
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We hear about people “doing it tough,” about homelessness and “crimes of poverty,” but never about the racial, gendered, and systemic forces that make some people poor, criminalised, and excluded in the first place.
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Every year during Anti-Poverty Week, I find myself frustrated by how the public conversation about poverty and criminalisation plays out. The narratives are always the same: predictable, comfortable, and stripped of complexity.
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An invocation for remembrance, resistance, and renewal - we remake ourselves, bone by bone, light by light.

For friends who are talking with young people about our Xmas cards for prisoners project, these slides might help guide conversations gently. They offer age-appropriate ways to talk about care, kindness, & connection to remind kids that everyone deserves to feel valued at Xmas.

Repair work reminds us that accountability and care can coexist, that community can hold rupture without collapse.

Repair is how we find our way back to each other. It’s how we mend what’s been frayed, not to erase the tear, but to weave something stronger, more honest, and more real.
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In a world that teaches us to discard people when harm happens, choosing repair is a radical act. It’s how we resist the carceral logic that says punishment is the only way to respond to pain.
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Donate to Help Disabled Australians Advocate for Fair Pay!, organized by Shaun Bickley Hi, my name is Shaun, an Autistic person with a brain injury living in … Shaun Bickley needs your support for Help Disabled Australians Advocate for Fair Pay!

Our Fair Go has a fundraiser for basic operating costs. Our first goal is raising $234 to pay for a year of Zoom to have online Board meetings with quality captions for our #Deaf and #neurodivergent directors.

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